ATTLEBORO SECT TRIAL - "THE BODY" MASSACHUSETTS Cult aunt pleaded to save boy's life: Says parents denied food The Boston Herald "TAUNTON - The maternal aunt of a baby boy who starved to death because his ultra-religious parents would not feed him solid food testified yesterday that she pleaded with the child's father to resume feeding him." Robidoux ignored radio report The Sun Chronicle "TAUNTON -- Before his son died, reputed Attleboro sect leader Jacques Robidoux ignored a radio report about a baby dying after being only breast-fed because he believed Satan wanted him to doubt a "prophecy" about breast-feeding his own son." Defense begins in case of sect member charged with starving son The Associated Press "TAUNTON -- A member of a religious sect charged with murder for allegedly withholding solid food from his infant son is expected to take the stand in his murder trial on Wednesday." Sect jury sees video of infant The Pawtucket Times "TAUNTON -- Videotape of Samuel Robidoux being carried by his father, Christian sect leader Jacques Robidoux, during a religious celebration gave members of the jury in the Robidoux murder trial their first look Monday at the baby prosecutors say was systematically starved to death by his parents."

ILLINOIS
'A couple of years back, I knew he entered a cult'
The Chicago Sun-Times
"To his Logan Square neighbors, Jose Padilla was "Pucho," Spanish for "Pudgy"--a nice kid as comfortable with a softball as he was with a school textbook. But to the authorities, Padilla was a gang-banger who liked to fire guns, was prone to road rage, once punched out a cop over a doughnut and, according to court records and sources, was involved in a murder when he was 14. His mother told a former landlady she was becoming worried a few years ago when her son left the country and joined a cult."

MISSOURI
Muslims Angered by Baptist Comments
The Associated Press
"ST. LOUIS- A leading Islamic group demanded Tuesday that the Southern Baptist Convention condemn "bigoted" and "hate-filled" statements made by one of its pastors."

CHINA
Xinjiang: Where Islam thrives in China
CNN.com
"KUCHA -- In China's remote northwest region of Xinjiang, Islam thrives among the ethnically Turkic group called Uighurs."

NIGERIA
Cultists Ambush Mourners, Kill 20
The Daily Champion
"LAGOS -- About 20 people were feared dead at the weekend following an attack on mourners by members of a suspected cult group in Buguma, Asari-Toru council area of Rivers State. Daily Champion gathered that those who lost their lives were mostly young men and women in a procession escorting the body of a slain 26-year-old youth."

Army Major Battered By Muslim Sect
P.M. News
"LAGOS -- A Major in the Nigeria Army, Adewunmi Adegbesan, has been attacked by a group of Muslims while resisting ejection from the building where they worship."

NEW ZEALAND
Mainstream Christianity ailing in the Pacific
AFP
"The people of the Pacific are quickly moving away from mainstream Christianity towards a world of cults in what some say was a God-inspired coup, with faith healers advising kings and pentecostalists running pyramid money schemes."

PHILIPPINES
San Jose, Dinagat Island: Police yield again to Ecleos' promise
Sunstar
"After a four-hour search and a senator's intervention proved futile, the authorities again gave Rep. Glenda Ecleo another chance to surrender her son Ruben Jr. by Thursday. Never mind that it was the congresswoman's failure to persuade her son to yield last weekend that prompted Tuesday's full-scale assault in Dinagat."

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