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Dec 16, 2009
Church of Scientology hoping South End move will clear up misconceptions — South End News (Massachusetts)
Type: Press
Author(s): Kate Lindsmith
Source: South End News (Massachusetts)
Timeframe of move remains undecided almost a year after sale of Alexandra Hotel Having spent more than three decades in the heart of the Back Bay, the Church of Scientology is still working on moving its headquarters to the South End. The church plans to renovate space in the Alexandra Hotel building and a neighboring brownstone, thus expanding its base to nearly twice the size of its current 26,000-square-foot location at 448 Beacon Street. The church bought the space in early ...
Dec 15, 2009
Scientology: 'The Crusade' continues — Gawker
Apr 19, 2009
Anger at tent set up by 'cult' — The Star
Type: Press release
Source: The Star
AN EXHIBITION in Sheffield by followers of the controversial Scientology religion prompted complaints from some members of the public. Scientologists – whose celebrity members include Tom Cruise and John Travolta – set up a bright yellow tent in Barker's Pool to educate people about the religion. But critics have dubbed the religion a "cult" and Star reader Mark Nuttall said he thought it was "appalling" Sheffield Council had given the Scientologists permission to set up the tent. He said: "I would ...
Aug 5, 2008
Scientologists Say Church Tent Will Remain For Two Weeks — Pacific Magazine
Type: Press
Author(s): Ulamila Wragg
Source: Pacific Magazine
The saga over the presence of the Church of Scientology in the Cook Islands has taken a new twist. A church tent, pulled down last month by the Scientology Volunteer Ministers to avoid a legal battle, is up again after the church clarified its position with the Ministry of Justice, especially under the Constitution, which grants freedom of religion and of conscience. The church was legally challenged by Pentecostal leader Reverend Alfred Morris, who challenged the church’s display tent in the ...
Aug 1, 2008
Red Alert: Scientologists creeping back — Asian Tribune
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Type: Press
Author(s): Janaka Perera
Source: Asian Tribune
Among the 'garbage' that was washed ashore in Sri Lanka in the immediate aftermath of the tsunami were a number of foreign-funded, unscrupulous evangelist groups. Among these were the 'Scientologists' trying to fish in troubled waters. After exposure by several foreigners including some German journalists as well as the Venerable Medagama Dhammananda of the Asgiriya Buddhist Chapter Sri Lanka, the group kept a low-profile, while 'helping' in the tsunami relief operations for sometime. It now appears that these nefarious crusaders are ...
Jul 19, 2008
Scientology Cult Fraudulently Claims "Medal of Valor" from the Fire Department of New York
Type: Blog
The Scientology cult loudly boasts that after 9/11, its "Volunteer Ministers" were awarded the Fire Department of New York's highest honor, the "Medal of Valor." This is not only a lie, but an insult to the memory all the brave firefighters who died in the line of duty and were awarded this Medal posthumously. Dozens of Scientology web site and blogs brazenly make this claim, in a continuing effort to legitimize their cult. Scientology's "Volunteer Ministers," or more accurately, "Vulture Ministers," ...
Jul 6, 2008
Letters to the Editor // Scientologist takes umbrage at remark — Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colorado)
Type: Press
Source: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colorado)
Rex Fowler, Denver I was surprised that out of all of the remarks that comedian Kathy Griffin made during the fourth season debut of her TV show, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, the Rocky Mountain News chose to include a discriminatory remark about my religion ("Griffin always 'on,' "" Spotlight, June 11). If the remark had been about Judaism or Islam, would the Rocky have included it in the article? I am very proud to be a Scientologist. I ...
May 14, 2008
Scientology, PRO-7 working together for life-improvement — Daily Inquirer (Philippine)
Type: Press
Author(s): Justin Anjuli K. Vestil
Source: Daily Inquirer (Philippine)
CEBU CITY, Philippines — The Police Regional Office in Central Visayas (PRO-7) has tied up with the Asian Ministers of the Church of Scientology in launching a program that aims to help Cebuanos on how to handle poverty and disasters. The Yellow Tent, a project of the Scientology Volunteer Minister Corps (SVMC), launched its Cebu tour on Tuesday at the Camp Sergio Osmeña in Osmeña Boulevard, Cebu City. The launching was spearheaded by Chief Superintendent Ronald Roderos, PRO-7 director, and was ...
Apr 20, 2008
Scientology Int'l donates books to Cebu City library — Philippine Information Agency
Type: Press
Source: Philippine Information Agency
Cebu, Philippines (20 April) – Scientology International donated an18-volume limited edition of The BASICS, authored by L. Ron Hubbard to the City Library of Cebu. The Scientology Volunteer Ministers' International Goodwill Tour donates books to selected libraries all over the world, and the latest addition to the roster of recipients is the Cebu City library located at Osmena Boulevard, Cebu City. Cebu City Librarian Rosario C. Chua welcomed the goodwill gesture of the Volunteer Ministers to house under her keep the ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 17, 2008
Scientology faces opposition in American Samoa — Radio New Zealand International
Type: Press
Source: Radio New Zealand International
Three Assembly of God ministers in American Samoa have staged a protest to discourage people from taking part in Scientology meetings. They displayed placards opposing the community meetings which began last Friday. Pastor Sauni Tuitoelau of the Assembly of God Church in Nuuuli says he organised the demonstration because he does not want people to fall for the Scientology members’ tactics. He said the organisation is trying to get its foot into the territory by offering disaster training and other teachings ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 12, 2008
American Samoa restates freedom of religion amid scientology campaign — Radio New Zealand International
Type: Press
Source: Radio New Zealand International
The American Samoan governor, Togiola Tulafono, says the government cannot prohibit the display of Scientology Church billboards. Billboards for the Scientology church have been put up across the main island over the past week to promote meetings with two scientology volunteers from Australia this week. Governor Togiola says both the United States and American Samoa consitutitions protect the rights of Christians and atheists. He said this is the same reason why the government could not stop the showing of the movie ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jan 31, 2008
Election brings out stars' stripes / Stars' political opinions often stir controversy — Variety
Type: Press
Author(s): Peter Bart
Source: Variety
As the fight for the presidency heats up, Hollywood's celebrities will be speaking their minds about the candidates and the issues – and studio chieftains already are cringing. Politics breeds controversy, and there are many who feel that stars should be seen and not heard. The campaign will be shrill enough, they reason, without celebrity input. There's more than a little hypocrisy to this position. The corporate Brahmins wield their wealth and power to support favored candidates, one could argue, so ...
Jan 30, 2008
Church of Scientology buys historic CBD building in PE — AVUSA Media
Type: Press
Source: AVUSA Media
One of the historic landmarks in Port Elizabeth's central business district - the United Building on the corner of St Mary's Terrace and Govan Mbeki Avenue - is soon to have a R6-million facelift, adding a new look to the inner city. The building has been bought by the Church of Scientology, which wants to turn it into its regional headquarters, for about R8-million. Recently approved by the commissioner of revenue as a public benefit organisation, and also tax- exempted, the ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Dec 19, 2007
Namibia: Scientologists Offer Disaster Management Training — AllAfrica Global Media
Type: Press
Author(s): Oswald Shivute
Source: AllAfrica Global Media
A team of Scientology volunteers is conducting disaster relief training for organisations and public services in the Oshana Region. Eben van Loggerenberg, one of the volunteers, says the programme started in Windhoek in August before moving on to the coast and the North. He said the training was being offered free of charge to emergency services, Police, Red Cross workers, hospitals and other organisations. The volunteers are selling Scientology booklets too. He said from Namibia, they will go to other SADC ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 11, 2007
Scientology tour crumbles — New Zealand Herald
More: nzherald.co.nz
Type: Press
Author(s): Christopher Sablan
Source: New Zealand Herald
What was intended as a goodwill tour by a visiting group for the Church of Scientology has run into a bit of controversy. The Scientology visit tent in front of the Government building, endorsed by the Government, has remained largely empty since opening last Wednesday. However, a training course was held for a group of police officers and other support servicemen. The visit hit a bad patch when claims were made that the tour received the blessings of the National Council ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 5, 2007
Samoa police positive about scientology assistance — Radio New Zealand International
Type: Press
Source: Radio New Zealand International
Posted at 03:46 on 05 October, 2007 UTC Samoa’s acting police commissioner says he welcomes the goodwill visit by scientology volunteers who will train police officers in disaster management. Scientology volunteers have put up tents in front of the government building in Apia for their disaster management training over the next two weeks. The goodwill visit has sparked protests among Christians from various congregations who warn about the possible negative impact. The government has expressed its support for the training, and ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 4, 2007
Samoa police minister says country is not endangered by Scientologists — Radio New Zealand International
Type: Press
Source: Radio New Zealand International
Samoa’s Minister of Police, Tole’afoa Apulu Fa’afisi, says a goodwill visit by Scientology volunteer ministers is crucial for the country as their mission is to provide disaster seminars and training for everyone. The minister, who opened the Scientology training programme yesterday was responding to more than a hundred Christian protesters from various denominations who marched to show their disapproval of the Scientologists visit. Tole’afoa says the government’s support for the Scientology volunteers is for the important training they are providing which ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 2, 2007
Samoa's Council of Churches upset by visit from Scientologists — Radio New Zealand International
Type: Press
Source: Radio New Zealand International
Posted at 22:50 on 02 October, 2007 UTC The chairman of the Council of Churches in Samoa, the Reverend Oka Fau’olo, has dismissed reports saying the Curch Concil is supporting a goodwill visit by Scientology representatives currently in the country. The chairman says there is no need for Scientology ministers to come through the council in order to provide disaster training and seminars for the public because there are other suitable organizations such as the local medical association. Reverend Fau’olo’s comments ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 19, 2007
Samoa government and church council to receive Scientology disaster course — Radio New Zealand International
Type: Press
Source: Radio New Zealand International
Several volunteer ministers of the US-based Scientology religion are in Samoa to provide disaster response specialist courses for government representatives and local church councils. The Samoa government and the National Council of churches are the two major organisations supporting the training courses, scheduled to start next week. Numerous Hollywood stars such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta are members of the religion. The followers of Scientology are fighting problems such as disaster management, manmade, natural or personal disasters, communication problems, violence, ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Aug 3, 2007
Scientologists Descend on Minneapolis Collapse Site — ABC News
Type: Press
Author(s): Marcus Baram
Source: ABC News
They're ubiquitous at almost every disaster zone, assisting the wounded and consoling grieving families, from Ground Zero to Indonesia to New Orleans and now Minneapolis. The Church of Scientology and its globetrotting team of volunteer ministers have been active over the last several years, arousing the ire of critics who read unholy motives into the group's charitable works. Soon after Wednesday's bridge collapse, at least 20 Scientology volunteers in Minneapolis and surrounding areas headed to the disaster zone, according to a ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jun 14, 2007
Proselytizing on the Common - The Church of Scientology comes to town — Worcester Magazine
More: web.archive.org
Type: Press
Author(s): Chet Williamson
Source: Worcester Magazine
For the past week, they set up big yellow tents with three snow-cone points and little flags on top on the Common right behind City Hall. From a distance you'd have thought that the circus had come to town. It didn't. It was the Church of Scientology's International Volunteer Minister Pioneer Cavalcade, a kind of roving revival tent show to spread the word of church founder L. Ron Hubbard. Emblazed across the front of the tents were the words: "Do Something ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 26, 2007
Scientologists visiting Va. Tech to help — Roanoke Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Pamela J. Podger
Source: Roanoke Times
Scientologists address man as a spiritual being and say they help people to improve their lives. BLACKSBURG – Brian Grogan, 26, was chomping on a hot dog before heading to work Wednesday when he noticed people in canary yellow T-shirts handing out religious pamphlets. A moment later, he realized they were Scientologists. "They're leeches," Grogan said. "They show up wherever something bad happens and use that to spread their propaganda." Scientologists say they're no different from the Southern Baptists, Catholics or ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 24, 2007
Slinging Scientology, Mud on VT Campus — Radar Online
More: web.archive.org
Type: Press
Author(s): John Cook
Source: Radar Online
You've already heard about the invasion of Virginia Tech by a couple dozen "volunteer ministers" from the Church of Scientology. Now comes the mudslinging. Xenuphobes sick of seeing yellow-shirted Scientologists show up to disasters alongside cable news cameras have accused Virginia Tech of inviting L. Ron's minions. An alleged "ministers consultant" named Irmin wrote an all-points bulletin e-mail sent to Scientology volunteers last week stating: "Our [volunteer ministers are] ... working in the student trauma center at the request of the ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 20, 2007
First Photos: Scientologists Invade Virginia Tech Campus — Radar Online
Type: Press
Author(s): Mark Ebner
Source: Radar Online
As reported elsewhere earlier this week, Scientology's Volunteer Vultures have descended upon the grief-stricken Virginia Tech campus. VT senior Christie Weaver, a psychology major, confirmed their presence on Thursday, and was kind enough to send us some photographic evidence. "Yeah, those fuckers are here," she said, noting that she "has not seen anyone speak to them because they wear these bright yellow shirts that say 'Scientology Volunteer Minister.' They stick out like sore thumbs, especially given that they look very L.A.'d ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 18, 2007
Critics: Scientologists' Va. trip a time to prey — NY Daily News (New York)
Type: Press
Author(s): George Rush, Joanna Molloy
Source: NY Daily News (New York)
The Church of Scientology has dispatched "ministers" to provide "grief counseling" for shell-shocked youth at Virginia Tech - but critics suspect the sect hopes to convert the vulnerable students. "It's shameless, how they milk human tragedy to promote their organization," charges Rick Ross, whose CultNews.net has long tracked the group, which counts Tom Cruise, John Travolta and Kirstie Alley among its members. "These young people [at VT] are experiencing trauma. What they need are qualified mental health professionals." HollywoodInterrupted.com's Mark Ebner ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 18, 2007
The Scientology vultures have landed at Virginia Tech! — Hollywood, Interrupted
More: hollywoodinterrupted.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Mark Ebner
Source: Hollywood, Interrupted
The criminal cult literally has VT in their crosshairs. As quoted in today's Daily News Rush & Molloy column, Scientology's anti-psychiatry front group spokeswoman says, "We prohibit our people from proselytizing." Hollywood, Interrupted calls BULLSHIT, and can now release an internal Scientology memo proving that proselytizing at the shooting tragedy site is exactly what they are doing. As first posted on the excellent anti-Scientology clearing house site Xenu.net, here is an excerpt from the cult's current recruitment and publicity ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 16, 2007
Sick: Celebrity cult of Scientology attempts to capitalize on Virginia Tech tragedy! — Hollywood, Interrupted
More: hollywoodinterrupted.com
Type: Press
Author(s): Mark Ebner
Source: Hollywood, Interrupted
In their extremely misguided, Nazi-like effort to rid the world of psychiatrists (and, in fact, all mental health practitioners), the Criminal Cult of Cruise is now using the Virginia Tech shooting tragedy as a platform for their latest, ill-advised recruitment drive. Scientology has not attempted so publicly, so grotesquely to capitalize on a national tragedy since they descended like vultures at Ground Zero post-9/11. While hindering legitimate, heroic rescue efforts with their spurious "therapies" at the site, Scientology claimed [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September11,2001attackopportunists they ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 20, 2007
Met allows Cruise's sect access to data on security alerts — Evening Standard (UK)
Type: Press
Source: Evening Standard (UK)
The Metropolitan Police have agreed to give the Church of Scientology privileged information on security, the Evening Standard can reveal. Under the agreement, the Met has placed the church on the database of groups provided with "current, fast-time”details about safety matters. [Picture / Caption: Devotee: Tom Cruise addresses a meeting of his church which the Police have agreed to give privileged information] The revelation will raise further questions about police links with the sect of which John Travolta and Tom Cruise ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jan 24, 2007
Today's CCHR demo in Sudbury, MA — Daily Kos
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Dec 19, 2006
Scientologist 'assisted' from CFA recovery area — The Age (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Daniel Ziffer
Source: The Age (Australia)
MEMBERS of the Church of Scientology have reportedly been removed from a Gippsland staging ground where Country Fire Authority firefighters and crews have been recovering. Members of the church were escorted by police from the Heyfield staging ground, locals said. But a church representative denied the report, saying church members had been helping out in the staging area for three days before leaving late last week at the request of the CFA. Police were unavailable to comment. Scientology groups, comprised largely ...
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