=== 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


=== Faith-Based and Community Initiatives

34. Bush's initiative could help groups that promote faith healing
British Medical Journal - International Edition (BMJ), Mar. 3, 2001
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Civil liberties groups, secular pressure groups, and some doctors have expressed concern at President George Bush's decision to set up a federal bureau for faith based social services. Religious groups will be able to apply for government funding.

The American Civil Liberties Union, the Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, and the Anti-Defamation League, have all objected to the plan.

Some paediatricians are also worried that groups forbidding parents to take their children to doctors, encouraging the use of faith healers alone, will receive funding.

A research study published in 1998 showed that a reliance on faith healers can put children's lives at risk. Dr Seth Asser of the University of California in San Diego and Dr Rita Swan of CHILD (Children's Healthcare is a Legal Duty) wrote in Pediatrics of the deaths of 172 children over a 20 year period whose parents belonged to faith healing sects that forbid traditional medical care for illnesses (Pediatrics 1998;101:625-9).

About 81% (140/172) of the children who died succumbed to conditions that normally have a high survival rate (90%) given proper medical attention, the commonest being pneumonia, meningitis, diabetes, and measles.

More than 30 were from Colorado, where three children have died in the past two years because their parents, members of the General Assembly and Church of the First Born, denied them medical treatment on religious grounds. These parents believed that prayer, rather than medical treatment, cures illnesses and disabilities.
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