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Scientology faces multiple setbacks within one week // The past few days have not gone well for the secretive religion known for its celebrity followers

Title: Scientology faces multiple setbacks within one week // The past few days have not gone well for the secretive religion known for its celebrity followers
Date: Friday, 30 October 2009
Publisher: The Guardian (UK)
Author: Andrew Gumbel
Main source: guardian.co.uk

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Most religious organisations can weather a high-profile defection or two. Many might successfully explain away a fraud conviction in a foreign criminal court, or deal with the spectacular suicide of a member, or muddle through a less than stellar public performance by a prominent spokesman. Rarely, though, does a religion have to face up to all these challenges in the same week. The past few days have been little short of a nightmare for Scientology, the strange, secretive religion that thrives ... [Read the rest at guardian.co.uk]