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Dec 12, 2009
Senior Scientologist says 'no cover up' — Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
Type: Press
Author(s): Bronwyn Herbert
Source: Australia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News
ELIZABETH JACKSON: The international vice president of the Church of Scientology has responded to allegations that his church is a criminal organisation. Senator Nick Xenophon used parliamentary privilege last month to declare that Scientology is not a religion but a criminal organisation which covers up offences and abuse by its members. The Church of Scientology's vice president says the allegations have already been investigated. Bronwyn Herbert reports. BRONWYN HERBERT: Its status as a religion is fiercely contested, but the Church of ...
Nov 14, 2009
Scientology chiefs make €270,000 from Irish wing — Independent.ie
Type: Press
Author(s): Laura Noonan
Source: Independent.ie
THE Irish wing of the controversial Church of Scientology is making annual profits of over €270,000 but its director last night insisted all the money was going to pay off the company's "substantial debts". A favourite with celebrities such as Tom Cruise and John Travolta, the local Scientology spin-off has been the subject of numerous protests at its Middle Abbey Street base in Dublin, with a Fine Gael TD branding the movement a "crackpot cult". New financial filings show the Irish ...
Nov 12, 2009
Scientologists to build large church in £1million Plymouth building — The Herald (Plymouth, UK)
Type: Press
Source: The Herald (Plymouth, UK)
SCIENTOLOGISTS in Plymouth are planning to buy a £1million property in the city centre and convert it into a church. They say the "bold" and "prominent" building is being planned as the popularity of the religion grows in Plymouth and the South West. Two undisclosed buildings are currently being looked at in the centre of Plymouth. Marianne Rowell, spokeswomen for the Church of Scientology, said the plan was to buy the building by the end of the year, and open it ...
Nov 4, 2009
'Tom Cruise told me to talk to a bottle': Life at Scientology's secret headquarters — Village Voice
Nov 2, 2009
Will France ban Scientology? — The Daily Beast
Type: Press
Author(s): Eric Pape
Source: The Daily Beast
Five years after Tom Cruise called Nicolas Sarkozy a “wonderful guy,” a French court convicted his church of fraud. Eric Pape on Scientology’s latest crisis. Scientology isn’t a religion, it’s a dangerous sect overseen by convicted criminals—at least as far as France is concerned. There is no doubt that the last week has brought a flurry of bad news for Scientology. There was the vocal defection of respected film director Paul Haggis, as well as fresh indications that John Travolta, one ...
Nov 1, 2009
Defections, court fights test Scientology — Seattle Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Eric Gorski
Source: Seattle Times
The Church of Scientology is going through a difficult season. Over the course of two days last week, a French court convicted the church of fraud and Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis' resignation from the church over a litany of concerns was aired publicly. On one hand, it was just another bad press week for the embattled institution founded in 1953 by the late science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. But for former Scientologists and scholars of the movement, the setbacks pose ...
Nov 1, 2009
Scientology's response — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Church spokesman Tommy Davis says the Times' sources admitted they left Scientology because they could not meet the church's strict ethical standards. Now they are lying, he says, and the Times is helping advance their agenda. Here is the Church of Scientology's response to their allegations, submitted as a 10-page letter: + + + CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY INTERNATIONAL 15 October 2009 VIA HAND DELIVERY Mr. Joe Childs Mr. Tom Tobin St. Petersburg Times 490 First Avenue South St. Petersburg, Florida 33701 ...
Oct 27, 2009
Scientologists convicted of organised fraud in France — Agence France Presse (AFP)
Oct 27, 2009
Scientology centres convicted of fraud in France // Church fined over £500,000 after case brought by former members who were pressured into handing over money — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Jason Burke
Source: The Guardian (UK)
Two flagship branches of the Church of Scientology in France have been sentenced to pay fines of over €600,000 (£550,000) after being convicted of "fraud in an organised gang" today by a court in Paris. The judgment against the Scientology Celebrity Centre and a related bookshop in Paris is one of the most important to involve the controversial organisation in recent years. The judges stopped short of the total ban the prosecution had called for, so the church will be allowed ...
Oct 19, 2009
Sandy Springs to give Scientology a yes or no — Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Type: Press
Author(s): April Hunt
Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Expect a showdown over Scientology Tuesday night in Sandy Springs. The City Council is scheduled to decide at its meeting whether to rezone an office building at Roswell Road and Glenridge Drive so the church can move from Dunwoody. More than 500 residents and 16 neighborhood associations have urged the city to deny the request, saying there isn’t enough parking and that the church will add to existing traffic woes. But there is a new twist that the church hopes will ...
Sep 14, 2009
Une modification de loi empêche de dissoudre une secte pour escroquerie [French] — Le Monde (France)
More: unofficial English translation
Type: Press
Source: Le Monde (France)
La Mission interministérielle de lutte contre les dérives sectaires (Miviludes) a affirmé, lundi 14 septembre, qu'une modification de la loi, intervenue le 12 mai, ne permet plus à un magistrat de dissoudre une secte pour escroquerie, ce qui lèverait le risque de dissolution de la Scientologie, poursuivie pour de tels faits à Paris. Dans un communiqué diffusé à l'AFP, la Miviludes écrit avoir "découvert avec consternation la suppression de la peine de dissolution d'une personne morale en matière d'escroquerie, votée le ...
Aug 29, 2009
Scientology: crisis in France — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Angelique Chrisafis
Source: The Guardian (UK)
It claims to be one of the world's fastest-growing new religions but a battery of legal cases threaten its very existence in this secular country In a small Normandy village, surrounded by wheat fields, Gwen Le Berre keeps a Scientology "electrometer" machine in his bedroom. He opens the large green briefcase and peers at the machine inside. It looks like a lie-detector from an old TV cop show and Le Berre doesn't really understand how it works — he just knows ...
Aug 19, 2009
Rapper Doug E. Fresh finds faith in Scientology — Essence (magazine)
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Type: Press
Author(s): Terrance Dean
Source: Essence (magazine)
Visit any neighborhood in the Black community and you're bound to find a church on nearly every city block. When it comes to faith-based communities, African Americans are believed to be one of the most religious and spiritual especially those who practice Christianity, Islam, Catholicism, or Judaism. There are even some Buddhists, thanks in part to iconic celebrity, Tina Turner, who introduced Black folk to the religion in her autobiography, "What's Love Got to Do With It." But, when it comes ...
Aug 13, 2009
Scientology ups profile — Las Vegas Sun
Type: Press
Author(s): Sam Skolnik
Source: Las Vegas Sun
Scientology is getting big in the Las Vegas Valley, at least in terms of square footage. The controversial religion is renovating a former synagogue complex near the corner of Eastern and Emerson avenues so it can become Scientology’s focal point in Nevada, with 36,845 square feet of space and a “Celebrity Centre” to specially cater to high-profile artists, celebrities and community leaders. The Las Vegas celebrity center will be Scientology’s fourth such center in the U.S. The others are in Los ...
Jun 21, 2009
The Truth Rundown: Amy Scobee — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Type: Press
Source: St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Amy Scobee Born: Washington state Age: 45 Joined Scientology: at age 14, 1978 Left Scientology: 2005 Family status: Married to former Sea Org member Matt Pesch. They left the church together in 2005. They have no children. Career highlights: Oversaw several operations sectors during 20 years as manager at the church's international base in California. Built the network of Scientology Celebrity Centres, assembling and training staff to match four-star service levels. Oversaw church's film and taping facilities. As teenager, managed kitchen, ...
May 31, 2009
Scientology's $12m renovation rescue — Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Type: Press
Author(s): Sharon Labi
Source: Daily Telegraph (Australia)
THE Church of Scientology plans to spend $12 million upgrading its Sydney headquarters, but faces a ban on trawling the street outside the building for new recruits. The group's controversial plans include building an extra level on its Castlereagh St premises, and renovating the facade of the heritage building. Neighbours and businesses have objected to the proposed upgrade at Scientology House, citing aggressive recruitment tactics, nuisance, loss of view, extra pollution and heritage concerns. City of Sydney councillors will vote on ...
Apr 7, 2009
Nashville Building make-over invites onlookers — NewsChannel 5 (Nashville, Tennessee)
Type: TV
Source: NewsChannel 5 (Nashville, Tennessee)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A Nashville building on the National Registry of Historical places is getting a multi-million dollar makeover. Construction crews are working everyday bringing new life to the old Fall School building. "People are excited to see it returning to its former glory," says business neighbor William Walter. Walter admits the group moving in has raised curiosity. "They're just redoing the whole thing - doors, walls, windows. They took down the fixtures, so that should be a pretty impressive building ...
Apr 1, 2009
Special investigation: Former Scientologists claim coerced abortions, child labor inside church [Part 10] — KESQ Channel 3 (CA)
More: Transcript
Type: Press
Author(s): Nathan Baca
Source: KESQ Channel 3 (CA)
PART TEN Former Scientologist Maureen Bolstad continues her account of her years at the church headquarters near Hemet. "I was actually one of the older ones at 17. There were 13-year-olds, 12-year-olds," Bolstad recollects. "There was just one kid, 12-years-old that was given an executive responsibility doing something. He had a complete nervous breakdown." This is how Maureen spent her teenage years: making videos for the church. Looking at her social security tax forms, she says nobody ever told her about ...
Mar 21, 2009
Richmond Scientology mission holder discusses beliefs — Richmond Times-Dispatch
Type: Press
Author(s): Robin Farmer
Source: Richmond Times-Dispatch
Published: March 21, 2009 Scientologist offers insight into beliefs Celebration to mark founder's birthday is today in Washington Last Friday marked the birthday of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, who lived from 1911 to 1986. Today, in Washington and worldwide, a birthday celebration takes place. Dr. Mat Pastore, the mission holder for the Church of Scientology Mission of Richmond, which opened in Carytown in 2008, shared insight into a religion sometimes marked by controversy. Can anyone participate in the D.C. gathering? ...
Mar 19, 2009
Letters / Who knew? — Pasadena Weekly
Type: Press
Source: Pasadena Weekly
Who knew? I find these Anonymous letters brutal, unthinking, indecent and disrespectful to the religious beliefs of others. It is easy to say whatever you want to say, even if it’s untrue, if you don’t sign your name to it. Is it really possible to hold on to so much hatred and evil? Doesn’t Anonymous know that Scientology is expanding at a much faster rate than ever before? Yes, it’s true. In the last 20 years, churches, missions and groups in ...
Mar 7, 2009
More Americans say they have no religion — Associated Press
Type: Press
Author(s): Rachel Zoll
Source: Associated Press
A wide-ranging study on American religious life found that the Roman Catholic population has been shifting out of the Northeast to the Southwest, the percentage of Christians in the nation has declined and more people say they have no religion at all. Fifteen percent of respondents said they had no religion, an increase from 14.2 percent in 2001 and 8.2 percent in 1990, according to the American Religious Identification Survey. Northern New England surpassed the Pacific Northwest as the least religious ...
Feb 26, 2009
Scientology stalled / Credit crunch and other spending put the brakes on the church’s downtown project — Montreal Mirror
Feb 4, 2009
Scientologie: «Ce n'est pas une Église» - Mgr Ouellet — Le Soleil (Québec, Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s): Ian Bussières
Source: Le Soleil (Québec, Canada)
(Thetford Mines) Le cardinal Marc Ouellet s'est interrogé mercredi sur les critères du gouvernement du Québec pour reconnaître les corporations religieuses au lendemain de l'annonce de la construction par l'Église de scientologie d'un lieu de culte au coût de 4 millions $ dans le quartier Saint-Roch. «Je sais qu'en Europe, notamment en Allemagne, en Belgique et en France, il y a des endroits où on refuse d'accorder à l'Église de scientologie le statut de religion», fait remarquer d'entrée de jeu Mgr ...
Feb 3, 2009
Les scientologues investissent 4 millions $ à Saint-Roch — Le Soleil (Québec, Canada)
Type: Press
Author(s): Pierre-André Normandin
Source: Le Soleil (Québec, Canada)
(Québec) Les scientologues investiront 4 millions $ pour la construction d'une église en plein coeur du quartier Saint-Roch, a appris Le Soleil. Québec deviendra ainsi d'ici la fin 2009 la première ville au Canada - et la 11e au monde - à héberger l'un des lieux de culte que le mouvement dit de nouvelle génération. La Ville de Québec vient tout juste de donner le feu vert aux importants travaux de rénovation du bâtiment de la rue Saint-Joseph que les scientologues ...
Feb 3, 2009
Will the L. Ron Hubbard house turn a Camelback neighborhood into a Scientology recruitment Mecca? — Phoenix New Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Robrt L. Pela
Source: Phoenix New Times
On a recent December Sunday, on a still street nestled against Camelback Mountain, a party is in full swing at the L. Ron Hubbard House. It's meant to be a holiday open house, to show off the stunning renovation of the simple brick dwelling where Hubbard founded Scientology a half-century ago, and to smooth relations with neighbors, some of whom have lately been up in arms about plans to turn the house into a Scientology museum. These concerned neighbors, none of ...
Jan 21, 2009
Hirnwäscher - Wie gefährlich ist Scientology? ["The Brainwashers - How Dangerous Is Scientology?" Unofficial translation] — ARD (Germany)
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