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News for: July 22, 2002
Bigamist Green's Family Gets Aid From Prosecutor
The Associated Press
PROVO -- The man behind Tom Green's bigamy and child rape convictions is helping Green's family move from their trailer complex in Utah's west desert to a fourplex in Springville.
CONNECTICUT
Conn. group not wild about Harry, others
The Associated Press
CROMWELL -- A Christian group pressing for a school ban on “Harry Potter” books and others that include tales of witchcraft isn't likely to succeed, but will have its petition discussed at the next curriculum committee meeting, according to the town's top school official.
NEW YORK
Mentor Is Dogged By Cult Charges
New York Post
His followers compare him to Gandhi, but his detractors say he's a power-hungry cult leader. Either way, Fred Newman - the self-styled Marxist whom Lenora Fulani credits as her mentor - is controversial.
NORTH CAROLINA
UNC changes assignment for students offended by book on Islam
The Associated Press
CHAPEL HILL -- The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill won't force incoming freshmen to read a book about Islam, but those who don't will have to write a one-page paper about their religious objections to the book.
Four churches plan to apologize to Cherokee
The Associated Press
CHEROKEE -- Tribal leaders say they're surprised that four churches on the Cherokee Indian Reservation plan to apologize to the tribe for a historical failure to recognize traditional Cherokee religion or culture.
SOUTH DAKOTA
Judge gives girl to mother who lost custody after converting to Islam, planning move to Egypt
The Associated Press
FLANDREAU -- A judge on Monday gave a 5-year-old boy back to his mother, who lost custody after converting to Islam and saying she planned to move to Egypt to live with her husband.
TEXAS
Canonization of Juan Diego drawing Texans to Mexico City
The Houston Chronicle
When Carmen Riojas Zapata was 6, her grandmother told her that if she prayed to the Lady of Guadalupe, everything would be all right. Almost seven decades later, Zapata still follows her abuela's advice.
UTAH
Attorney now aims to help Greens
The Daily Herald
WASHINGTON,D.C.
Buy one, get many? Cult e-markets "cloning machine"
Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON, July 22 (AFP) - The Clonaid Society, created by the founder of the Raelian movement, is selling online what it claims are "cloning machines" to further efforts to clone humans around the world. The machine was created by Korean scientists, who are sect members.
CANADA
Ailing girl secretly leaves city
Dad not told of daughter's trip
The Calgary Sun
The father of a teenage leukemia patient who fought against blood transfusions for religious reasons is upset his wife took their daughter out of the country to a secret location where she'll begin alternative treatments.
MEXICO
A Mexican state's despised Protestants gain
Many converts are expelled by Catholics
The Boston Globe
SAN JUAN CHAMULA -- On a recent Sunday morning, several dozen Mayan farmers packed the newly inaugurated Prince of Peace church, where a Protestant pastor discussed the importance of good works in the local Tzotzil language.
NIGERIA
Twelve Feared Killed in Fresh Cults Clash
Vanguard
LAGOS -- About twelve persons were feared killed and several others wounded as hostilities between two rival cult groups escalated in Nembe, Bayelsa state.
RUSSIA
Turning People Into Slaves According To The Russian Constitution
Pravda
July 18, the Moscow State Court threw out the lawsuit of the Russian Justice Ministry against the Moscow Church of Scientology. The religious activity of Church of Scientology in Moscow was acknowledged to correspond with the Russian Constitution.
Foreign Pastors Put on a Blacklist
The Moscow Times
The Roman Catholic Church is not the only religious organization to have its foreign spiritual leaders blacklisted and barred from Russia without explanation.
SCOTLAND
Scientists testing psychics' powers to predict the future
Ananova
Psychics are taking part in an experiment to find out if some people really can predict the future. Edinburgh University researchers are testing 140 volunteers who claim they've had psychic experiences.
