MAR-1: East Timor: According to DayWatch: ₂
"In a historic gesture, the president of Indonesia, Abdurrahman Wahid has apologized for violence carried out by Indonesian troops during the 24-year occupation of East Timor, specifically referring to the victims of the Santa Cruz cemetery massacre in 1991, when Indonesian troops opened fire on civilians on a funeral march."

MAR-2: Worldwide: 

According to ReligionToday: 5 "The Roman Catholic Church is seeking forgiveness for sins of the past. The Vatican released a report this week outlining areas in which the church has fallen short, Reuters said. The document, Memory and Reconciliation, mentions persecution of Jews, the Inquisition, and forced conversions as among the church's sins. ...'We have mentioned a few errors, but we could have had a very long list, too long a list. I fear the list will never be finished,' Jean-Louis Brugues, who assisted in the report, said. The document is a framework for the church's day of 'Request for Forgiveness' March 12. It states that Christians today are not responsible for sins committed by Christians in the past. 'We have had to find a way to liberate and purify memory without taking responsibility,' Brugues said."

According to EWTN: 11 The document's full title is "Memory and Reconciliation: The Church and the Faults of the Past" EWTN comments: "It draws a careful distinction between the Church as the bride of Christ, 'holy and immaculate,' and the people who make up that Church, who are sinners in need of pardon. Since the Church herself is holy, the document points out, 'the purification of memory' should not be misinterpreted as a suggestion that the Church has erred on questions of faith and morals, or has failed in her task of 'proclaiming the revealed truth which has been confided to her.' " See: http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=47416 [Author's note: This document appears to concentrate on past events. It does not seem to address the question of whether any current, controversial church policies are evil and will be the topics of future apologies. Some critics of the church condemn its current lack of intellectual freedom for academics, policies against effective methods of birth control, rejection of committed relationships among homosexuals, female ordination, priestly celibacy, and other topics.]

MAR-3: USA: University accepts inter-racial dating: According to ReligionToday: ₃
"Students at Bob Jones University said they are surprised by the school's decision to drop its ban on interracial dating. School President Bob Jones III announced the change in the policy, in place since the 1950s, during a television interview March 3 on Larry King Live. Jones said the extraordinary national scrutiny the school has received recently led to the move. The school had defended the policy based on a biblical interpretation that God created people differently for a reason." [Author's note: Presumably the school's rationale is that interracial dating could lead to interracial marriage and thus to interracial children. Since they believe that God created different races for a reason, interracial dating would lead to a thwarting of God's will. He also appeared on a network morning show on MAR-4. On that show, he justified the original ban, because it might lead to one-world government.]

MAR-20: Sweden: Religious freedom: According to a communication from the Church of Scientology:
In 1999-NOV, the Swedish government passed the "Act on Religious Communities" which guarantees religious freedom, religious equity and the separation of church and state in that country. Previously, Sweden had an official church: the Church of Sweden - a Lutheran denomination. Religious organizations as diverse as the Church of Scientology, Church of Sweden, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the Salvation Army have all been registered under the new law.