List of groups referred to as cults in government documents
Parliamentary Inquiry Commission (1997)
The Justice Commission of the Belgian House of Representatives set up a parliamentary inquiry commission to work out a policy against cults. On April 28, 1997, the parliamentary commission issued its 670-page report[2] that contained a list of 189 movements, and also stated that “[t]he fact that a movement is listed here, even if at the instigation of an official instance, does not signify that the Commission regards it as a cult”. The parliament failed to adopt the report as such and only voted to accept the conclusions and recommendations (19 pages), and not the list. Despite the lack of adoption of the list, the commission published the whole report, including the list.[14] According to Human Rights Without Frontiers Int., a Brussels Appeals Court in 2005 condemned the Belgian House of Representatives on the grounds that it had damaged the image of an organization (the Universal Church of God’s Kingdom) listed in the 1997 parliamentary inquiry commission on sects.[15]
The Belgian list of groups (French-language naming, with numbering as in the original document):
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