=== Aum Shinrikyo
1. Outcast Aum aids landlord's plan

=== Falun Gong
2. China Sect Members Ask Singapore Aid
3. News Corp. Heir Woos China With Show of Support

=== Scientology
4. A church for celebrities, but what about me?
5. Police work for Scientology

=== Unification Church
6. Clergy split over controversial Moon's visit
7. Chief of Moonies stops in Jackson on U.S. tour
8. Reverend Moon goes mainstream in 50-state tour
9. Moon plans to speak at revival in W. Baltimore
10. Moon, in D.M., pushes marriage

=== Islam
11. Muslims demand halal foods be served in Dearborn schools

=== Militia Groups / Hate Groups
12. Texas farm standoff enters second year
13. 100 held as Met launches dawn raids on hate crime
14. Nobody enjoys an apologist

=== ISCKON / Hare Krishna
15. Living with Krishna
16. Spiritual school
17. Food of the gods
18. Chic Krishna

=== Hinduism
19. Boutique Deities Offend

=== House of Prayer (Atlanta)
20. Minister has prior conviction for beating
21. Abuse claims not new, files say
22. 19 children to remain in state custody
23. Pastor says he'll take chance with jury
24. 'Who's supposed to be the villain?'
25. Child Beatings: 'They'd beat them for every simple little thing they'd do'
26. Corporal punishment part of black American culture
27. Welfare officials acknowledge the value of spanking

=== False Memory Syndrome
28. Fairlie sues over daughter's 'false memory' claims

=== Other News
29. LA County Pays $85,000 Settlement
30. Muslims fear for their lives as cannibal cult leader escapes
31. Fortunetelling legal again in Coeur d'Alene
32. School rejected girl's religious cards, suit says
33. Woman Detained After Vampire Assaults

=== Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
34. Bush's initiative could help groups that promote faith healing

=== Death Penalty and other Human Rights Abuses
35. Texas fight takes on race and death penalty


=== Unification Church

6. Clergy split over controversial Moon's visit
Detroit News, Mar. 20, 2001
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The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, controversial leader of the Unification Church, will visit Metro Detroit on Wednesday as part of a 50-state ''We Will Stand'' tour.

His visit here is the half-way point of his tour, and falls 28 years after his last visit.

As a Baptist pastor, the Rev. William Revely doesn't agree with the theology of many faiths, including that of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.

But that doesn't mean he can't get behind the message of unity that the controversial leader of the Unification Church is slated to bring to Detroit on Wednesday.

''This disagreeing with folks' theology is not accomplishing anything,'' said Revely, of the Messiah the Mission Baptist Church in northwest Detroit. ''We have to find some middle ground.''
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Known for declaring himself a messiah and performing mass wedding ceremonies, Moon has stirred up some controversy during his tour. In Oakland, Calif., Moon said that only when men and women procreate are they fully human, which some interpreted as a slam on homosexuals and women without children.
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A conference is tentatively planned in May to continue Wednesday's discussion. It will include faith leaders and other community pillars gathering to discuss problems plaguing the community and solutions to address them.
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Mr. Revely should be held accountable by those who are spiritual , as it appears he is not fit to lead a church. The Bible shows that there is no middle ground when it comes to ''uniting'' with a false Messiah:

(2 Timothy 4:2-5 NIV ) Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of
season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful
instruction. {3} For the time will come when men will not put up with sound
doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a
great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. {4}
They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. {5}
But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an
evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.

(Titus 1:9 NIV) He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has
been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute
those who oppose it.

(2 John 1:9-11 NIV) Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the
teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has
both the Father and the Son. {10} If anyone comes to you and does not bring
this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome him. {11} Anyone
who welcomes him shares in his wicked work.

Mr. Sun Myung Moon is a false Messiah. Those Christians who unite with him for any purpose without soundly denouncing his false ''gospel'' share in his wicked work.

» About Interfaith Activities and Interreligious Dialogue

7. Chief of Moonies stops in Jackson on U.S. tour
Advocate, Mar. 19, 2001
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JACKSON, Miss. - The Rev. Sun Myung Moon brought his message of racial unification and mixed marriage to the Bible Belt, where he found himself on the defensive before a large crowd.

''I have been the object of scrutiny for years,'' said the 81-year- old leader of the Unification Church, whose followers are often referred to as Moonies. ''I carry no animosity. Jesus Christ forgave his tormentors.''

Some of the more than 700 people in the Jackson audience Saturday said they were uncomfortable when the Korean evangelist spoke of the ''love organs'' of men and women while praising fidelity and rejecting illicit sex and divorce.

''I love much of what the Rev. Moon says about dismantling the forces of bigotry and hate,'' said John Hancock, pastor of Calvary Apostolic Church in McComb, who brought friends and family to hear Moon. ''But that does not convince me of the validity of his religious beliefs.''
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''For whatever theologic faults he has, the man has a tremendous persona,'' Hancock said.
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8. Reverend Moon goes mainstream in 50-state tour
Providence Journal, Mar. 19, 2001
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PROVIDENCE - The man America came to know as the messianic leader of the ''Moonies'' swept into Rhode Island yesterday with a plea for racial and interfaith harmony.

The Rev. Sun Myung Moon addressed a racially mixed crowd of about 440 people in a ballroom at the Providence Marriott.
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While his creed is Christian in most respects, Moon has cast himself as the ''New Messiah,'' sent by God to continue the work of Jesus.
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While he no longer commands the attention and the crowds he once did, Moon's persistence in the face of harsh criticism has won him friends in black churches. Five years ago, he reconstituted his movement as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification.

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a largely black organization, denounced the government's treatment of Moon as religious persecution, and he has cultivated ties to the black clergy ever since. The Rev. Al Sharpton, a national black political leader from New York City who is a Baptist minister, renewed his marriage vows in 1997 in a Unification Church ceremony.

Some leaders of black congregations spoke up for Moon's crusade yesterday, including the Rev. Rufus Oscar Kuma, of Living Hope Assembly of God in Pawtucket. Mr. Kuma sought to reassure his fellow clergy, saying that Moon is not trying to convert people to his church but is only trying to unite various religious faiths in one community.

The Rev. Michael Jenkins, president of Moon's church, told the audience, ''Years ago you may have heard that Rev. Moon was not very popular. Times have changed.''
He likened Moon to Jesus and Martin Luther King Jr., as a prophet reviled by many in his own time but carrying a message of eternal validity.

Moon's current message is sufficiently mainstream to draw declarations of support from U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee, Governor Almond and Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr.

Chafee and Cianci hailed Moon as a unifier of people. And Almond and Cianci both proclaimed yesterday as ''We Will Stand Day'' in Rhode Island.

In an extemporaneous speech that was alternately self-effacing and self-aggrandizing, Moon referred to his controversial image.

''People used to say, don't go to see Rev. Moon and look in his eyes, you'll be brainwashed,'' he said.
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Someone who claims that Mr. Moon's creed is ''Christian in most respects'' hasn't done his homework. Moon's message runs counter to the teachings of historical, biblical Christianity. His theology can best be described as religious insanity.

See:
» The Jesus of The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity

9. Moon plans to speak at revival in W. Baltimore
The Sun, Mar. 23, 2001
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To forge ties with Baltimore's black churches, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon plans to speak next week at a Baptist church, part of a 51-day, 50-state whistle-stop tour of the country.

Moon, 81, the leader of the Unification Church, has declared himself the Messiah come to unite all religions. His mass weddings and church members' proselytizing have led some to call his church a cult.

But the Rev. Willie Ray, longtime anti-violence crusader and organizer of Thursday's We Will Stand revival, scheduled for 6 p.m. at Brown Memorial Baptist Church in West Baltimore, is embracing the Korean-born leader.

''If you really hear him, he's a theologian,'' Ray said after a news conference to announce the revival yesterday at the United Missionary Baptist Convention headquarters in West Baltimore.

''He has a theology about how he sees God. Jesse Jackson has a theology. Louis Farrakhan has a theology. He's just a Korean with a theology. He recognizes Jesus Christ as lord, and he recognizes God as his father.''

Phillip D. Schanker, former pastor of a Washington church and national media coordinator for the revival, said many Christians ''have a misunderstanding that Reverend Moon thinks he is Jesus. This tour will give us an opportunity to have Jesus in the center and clarify that misunderstanding.''

Organizers describe We Will Stand as a national interfaith revival to encourage strong family values. Moon will ''inspire the Baltimore people, and I think they're going to embrace him,'' Ray said.
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The tour had been fairly free from contention until Wednesday night's stop in Detroit. Two Baptist pastors objected when they were incorrectly listed as event sponsors and went on television to encourage people to stay away.

Seven other black ministers representing Baptist, Methodist and the Pentecostal Church of God in Christ congregations attended the news conference yesterday. Other religious leaders appeared to be leery of endorsing the revival but did not condemn it.
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Moon's teachings about Jesus are heretical and blasphemous, indentifying the Unification Church as a cult of Christianity.

See:
» A Biblical Response to the Unification Church

10. Moon, in D.M., pushes marriage
Des Moines Register, Mar. 23, 2001
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(...) Moon, 81, spoke to about 700 people at the Des Moines Marriott. He said society's downfall began when Satan kidnapped Adam and Eve from God. This act cut off God's life, love and lineage and let Satan rule the world. To regain the world from Satan, one must be reborn, he said.

''God wanted to see Adam and Eve reach maturity, but from the beginning his ancestors were killed off,'' said Moon, whose speech was translated from Korean to English. ''God wanted to officiate a wedding and have them start producing children and grandchildren.''

Moon argued that several problems with society can be traced to people's misuse of their bodies. Such actions, he said, stem from Adam and Eve's covering up their own genitalia after picking the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

''The love organ is the most precious organ in our body but it becomes the most fearful organ in our life,'' he said. ''We should be able to educate children as they grow up to value their love organs and know how dangerous it is to deal with them.''

The misuse of the human genitalia has led to premarital sex where ''anyone can do what they want with their love organs.''

Moon said women who fail to marry or ''ignore the value of man are bound to hell.''

Marriage is important to Moon, who believes parents are to live for children, the children for the parents, the husband for his wife and the wife for her husband.
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''As a man, you're only half a person,'' Moon said. ''As a woman, you're only half a person. We need the better half to become a whole. By doing that we congeal love and become true parents.''

Moon's ministry has been controversial since he expanded to the United States in 1971.

Moon believes that he and his wife are the Messiah and ''True Parents of all humanity.'' He also believes that they are the ''first couple to have the complete blessing of God, and to be able to bring forth children with no original sin.''

Moon said Thursday night that gays and people who have sex before marriage are ''like animals -they have to be quarantined.''
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About 100 Iowans belong to the church, which has about 10,000 members nationally, said David Payer, tour coordinator for Iowa. Payer was one of the first Unification Church members in Iowa, joining in 1973.
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''Moon says there are denominational differences, but they are not that big of a deal under God.''
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The Unification Church is not a Christian denomination. Rather, theologically, it is a cult of Christianity. The Bible says this about folks like Moon:

(Galatians 1:6-9 NIV) I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the
one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different
gospel-- {7} which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are
throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ.
{8} But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than
the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! {9} As we have
already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel
other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!

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