=== Falun Gong
1. China says Taiwan leader colluding with falungong
2. Falun Gong members speak out

=== Falun Gong - China's Government-Controlled Media
3. Reports from China's government-controlled media

=== Scientology
4. Scientology guilty of libel and enjoined in Germany
5. Protecting sources
6. Razzies Scorch the ''Earth''

=== Unification Church
7. News And Notes

=== Raelians
8. House Sets the Stage for Debate on the Cloning of Humans

=== Buddhism
9. Sect 'planned mass suicide'
10. Sri Lanka to 'build' Bamiyan Buddhas

=== Catholicism
11. Faith or folly?
12. Former believer turns his efforts toward exposure
13. More Catholics turning to Mary
14. Pope Makes Appeal for Catholic Zeal

=== Mormonism
15. Mormons in charm offensive

=== Paganism / Witchcraft
16. Battle brewing over Nessie hunt
17. Wizard curse? I've had spell of good luck, says Whelan

=== Hate Groups
18. Man Gets Life for Calif. Hate Crime
19. Saudi Arabia bans Pokemon

=== Rebirthing
20. Video a key piece in abuse trial

=== Other News
21. Teen-age monk confesses to killing nun, police say
22. 'This is the place for a village,' decides a rich sect (Bruderhof)
23. Procter & Gamble Suit Over Satan Rumor Resurrected
24. Southern Baptists ending talks with Catholic Church

=== Science
25. Enlisting Science to Find the Fingerprints of a Creator

=== Death Penalty & Other Human Rights Violations
26. Court will hear second mentally retarded case

=== Media
27. Why do we think Christ was white?
28. Purging Flame

=== The Investors Around The Corner
29. Four-year-old beats City expert


=== Falun Gong

1. China says Taiwan leader colluding with falungong
AFP, Mar. 26, 2001
http://www.timesofindia.com/
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BEIJING: China alleged on Sunday that Taiwan's Vice President Annette Lu was using the falungong spiritual movement that is banned on the mainland, to promote the island's formal independence.

The official Xinhua news agency said in a commentary that the ''falungong and pro-independence activists are joining hands to support one another.''

Xinhua said Lu lent public backing to the Buddhist-inspired sect by speaking at a falungong event in Taipei in December.

''Those people of the Taiwan Authorities are doing nothing but trying to use falungong for their own separatist purposes as the cult has been collaborating with anti-China forces in the west over the past year,'' Xinhua said.
(...)

China's official press launched a vicious attack on Lu last year after she was elected along with President Chen Shui-bian. Both leaders are from the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party.
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2. Falun Gong members speak out
Denver Rocky Mountain News, Mar. 26, 2001
http://www.insidedenver.com/
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They're part of a growing number of Falun Gong practitioners seeking safety in the United States because of the Chinese government's ban on the movement. The U.S. is considering offering adherents asylum because of religious persecution, a proposal the Chinese government protests.

Both woman wanted to remain nameless in this story for fear their families would suffer if the government learned their identities.

''I see a lot of people who are really scared,'' said immigration attorney Margaret S. Choi, who started seeing Falun Gong cases after a government crackdown in July 1999.

Last year, Choi handled three or four Falun Gong political asylum cases, but by the end of January this year, she had 10 clients.

National figures weren't available because political asylum cases are not tracked by cause.

But according to Don Mueller, spokesman for the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Washington, D.C., 4,200 Chinese political asylum cases were carried over from 1999, and another 5,541 new cases were filed in fiscal 2000.

Out of those, 2,522 applications were granted and another 1,857 were referred to immigration judges.

''Anecdotally, there's been an increase of Falun Gong type cases,'' Mueller said.
''But each case is looked at on a case-by-case basis.''
(...)

The United States is in the process of issuing a resolution condemning China on its human rights record, citing China's treatment of Falun Gong practitioners.

It's the reason why the accountant is now considering applying for political asylum.

''I feel very contradictory,'' said the woman, a grandmother who is staying with her daughter's family in Denver. Her husband and two other daughters remain in China. ''If the (Chinese) government continues to act like this, I don't want to go back. But I am also very worried about my family.''
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=== Falun Gong - China's Government-Controlled Media

3. Reports from China's government-controlled media

* China's government-controlled media has, in recent days, published dozens
of items denouncing Falun Gong. As these items are essentially press
releases meant as propaganda rather than news reporting, there is little
to be gained by including them in RNR. Those interested may access the
reports via this Falun Gong news page
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