The Bible (both torah and Christian) don't outright ban charging interest, in fact, in one of the parables (parable of the talents) the person who is given one talent of gold is told that he should have at least put it with a moneylender to earn interest instead of burying it in the ground.

While it isn't a monetary parable (Christ is referring to using gifts from god appropriately) I doubt he would have used a banned example in one of his parables.

China has banned reincarnation in response to the Dalai Lama (sp), who is traditionally a reincarnation of the original.