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Scientology on trial in France: Can a religion be banned?

Title: Scientology on trial in France: Can a religion be banned?
Date: Thursday, 28 May 2009
Publisher: TIME Magazine
Author: Bruce Crumley
Main source: time.com

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As a fiercely secular nation, France has always had an awkward relationship with religious groups. Officials often find themselves struggling to strike the delicate balance between maintaining church-state separation and honoring the right of citizens to express their faith. But in the current case against the U.S.-based Church of Scientology, authorities have abandoned their usual attempts at fine-tuning religion's standing in French society — instead, they want to ban Scientology from France altogether. In a long-awaited trial that opened this week, ... [Read the rest at time.com]