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[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

>From Patrick de Verteuil:

There is no Ministry of Cults: There is a Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
Cults. This Ministry deals with all that it recognizes as organized
religions, including Catholicism with which the state of Haiti has a special
relationship (It pays Catholic priests a salary and names Catholic Bishops
subject to Vatican ratification.)

French dictionaries, as do English or American ones, list the meanings of
Cults or "Cultes" in descending order from "Organised religions" meaning
mine, to "Unorthodox, spurious religions" meaning yours.