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Church persecuted

Title: Church persecuted
Date: Sunday, 5 July 1998
Publisher: Sun Herald (Australia)
Main source: suburbia.com.au

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CLARIFICATION is required regarding the article on Scientology (June 21), as no German court decision exists which states that Scientology is not a religion, while 36 local and regional courts there have held that it is a bona fide religious community. It appears that the German courts have had to shoulder the whole burden of being objective and just. The Government inquiry on new religions was roundly condemned by parliamentarians and scholars and solidly lampooned in Spiegel magazine as "a kindergarten ... [Read the rest at suburbia.com.au]