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Dec 21, 2007
Scientologists eye a move to Downtown — New Mexico Business Weekly
Dec 20, 2007
Accord is green light for church — Sacramento Bee (California)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Edgar Sanchez Source:
Sacramento Bee (California) The Ramona building, a 78-year-old former hotel at Sixth and J streets, will be converted into Sacramento headquarters for the Church of Scientology. Courtesy of the Church of Scientology
Two years after it paid $4.75 million for the downtown Ramona building, the Church of Scientology is about to gain full control of the property.
A lease-buyout agreement was recently reached with Luis Jr.'s Mexican Food Restaurant, the last remaining tenant with a long-term lease in the five-story building at Sixth and ...
Dec 20, 2007
Neighbors upset over Goodwill's intent — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Goodwill wants to house a work-release program in a former motel that backs up to a mobile home park.
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"It's a bad element, and it's right next to us," said Daniel O'Connor, who lives in the Embassy Mobile home park in Largo. About 200 park residents lined up along the U.S. 19 frontage road north of East Bay Road Wednesday, in protest of a work-release facility Goodwill administrators want to put nearby.
An estimated 200 residents of three mobile home ...
Dec 19, 2007
House (of Worship) For Sale — Memphis Flyer
Type: Press
Author(s):
Bianca Phillips Source:
Memphis Flyer Since 1997, the stately mansion at 1440 Central Avenue has been the city's only Church of Scientology. But it may soon become home to another church or a new family.
A "For Sale" sign has taken the place of the stone "Church of Scientology" sign that once graced the building's front lawn. The mansion has been on the market for about two months, according to ReMax realtor Dean Graves.
"We're exploring moving farther east," said David Slaughter, who holds the local ...
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 ...
Dec 18, 2007
BRITISH AUTHOR'S ON 'CRUISE' PATROL — New York Post
Type: Press
Author(s):
Cindy Adams Source:
New York Post A Tom Cruise bio is about to drop upon us. St. Martin's Press is thrilled. Tom Cruise is maybe less thrilled. The thing is unauthorized. Also possibly unwanted and unappreciated. In fact, its title is "Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography."
The author is Andrew Morton, same Brit gent who unwrapped Princess Diana and Monica Lewinsky, of whom you may have heard. He spent two years on Operation Tom Cruise. Talked to chums, teachers, even old girlfriends who were his young girlfriends ...
Dec 18, 2007
Scientology's Status Misrepresented — Tampa Tribune (Florida)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Pat Harney Source:
Tampa Tribune (Florida) The Associated Press article, "Germany Officials Call For Scientology Ban" that ran in the Tribune Dec. 10 omits the fact that the German Ministers of Interior conference Dec. 7 did not vote for a motion to instigate procedures to ban Scientology.
Instead, those officials recognized that there is no evidence to support such a motion. Furthermore, Federal Minister of Interior Wolfgang Schauble in an interview with German Radio, also on Dec. 7, conceded that there is no legal basis for such ...
Dec 17, 2007
Germany's Battle Against Scientology — TIME Magazine
Type: Press
Author(s):
Andrew Purvis Source:
TIME Magazine The interior ministers of Germany's 16 states have launched an investigation into the activities of the Church of Scientology, hoping to assemble evidence to support banning the U.S.-based organization from operating in Germany. But skeptics question whether such a move is politically and legally tenable — or wise. A similar move by state-level interior ministers in 1997 concluded in a report that "the Scientology organization, agenda and activities are marked by objectives that are fundamentally and permanently directed at abolishing the ...
Dec 16, 2007
Goodwill plan meets opposition — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
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Author(s):
Lorri Helfand Source:
St. Petersburg Times (Florida) A longtime dormitory for Church of Scientology staffers will become the site of a work-release program for more than 200 nonviolent inmates if Goodwill Industries-Suncoast buys the property near East Bay Drive and U.S. 19.
But that's a big if, said Goodwill spokeswoman Michael Ann Harvey.
"As the minutes tick by and days tick by, more problems are occurring with the condition of the building and what it would require financially for Goodwill to bring it up to requirements," Harvey said. ...
Dec 15, 2007
Human Rights Torch Relay Coming to California — Epoch Times
Type: Press
Author(s):
Joshua Philipp Source:
Epoch Times SAN DIEGO?With the Human Rights Torch due to arrive in San Diego this April, coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, local supporters, human rights activists, and onlookers gathered in Balboa Park on Sunday, Dec. 9 for the Human Rights Torch Relay (HRTR) preliminary awareness event.
Paintings and photos depicting scenes of injustice and those who endure it stood lined up on the grass. A large banner behind them read, "The Olympics and crimes against humanity ...
Dec 15, 2007
Some see Scientology as business — The Oklahoman
Dec 15, 2007
Sounds of the Season — Washington Post
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Lavanya Ramanathan Source:
Washington Post Hearing voices again? It's not just your imagination. Today, the sounds of the holiday are ringing out across town as three seasonal choral events get underway:
Through tomorrow, the Cathedral Choral Society performs its holiday standard, "The Joy of Christmas," at the Washington National Cathedral. The program includes a performance by the United Voices Scandinavian Youth Choir, carols meant for the audience to sing along ("O Come, All Ye Faithful," "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing") and a new carol, "My Beloved ...
Dec 14, 2007
Cult Watch — TES Magazine
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Lynne Wallis Source:
TES Magazine Their targets used to be university students, but today fringe religious groups are believed to be recruiting school-aged children. Lynne Wallis reports. If one of your pupils became distant, distracted and antisocial, your first thought might be that they were experimenting with drink or drugs. But religious cults pose another danger to young people, and one from which it can be equally difficult to extricate them.
Although the notion of children being lured into fringe religious organisations might seem far-fetched, it ...
Dec 14, 2007
Valentino to Receive Grand Medaille de Paris — Fashion Wire Daily
Type: Press
Author(s):
Godfrey Deeny Source:
Fashion Wire Daily The mayor of the City of Light is to award Valentino with the Grand Medaille de Vermeil de la Ville de Paris, the equivalent of making him an honorary citizen of the French capital.
Paris’ socialist mayor Bertrand Delanoe will pin the Grand Medaille on to the great couturier during the upcoming haute couture season in January, when Valentino will stage his final runway show.
Among previous winners are the great fashion illustrator Erte, designer Gianni Versace, who was awarded the ...
Dec 14, 2007
Will Smith's Charities Include Scientology — FOX News
Type: Press
Author(s):
Roger Friedman Source:
FOX News Will Smith — charismatic, friendly and polite — is also very charitable. His Will Smith Foundation has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to local civic organizations in the Baltimore and Philadelphia areas. Last year he was even one of the few clients of Creative Artists Agency to give money to the talent agency’s own tax-free fund ($2,500).
But here’s something you don’t know: After Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett, made "Collateral" with Tom Cruise in 2004, the couple donated $20,000 to ...
Dec 12, 2007
Jailer’s truck stolen, suspect arrested in Oklahoma — Batesville Daily Guard
Dec 12, 2007
Seminars increase awareness of need to protect sea from pollution — Sun St. Kitts
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Sun St. Kitts Caribbean countries may be one step closer to having stricter pollution prevention measures in place to protect the Caribbean Sea from pollution by garbage from ships. This was the feeling following the successful completion of five seminars aimed at the ratification and implementation of Annex V of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL 73/78). MARPOL Annex V provides guidelines and regulations for the discharge of garbage for ships at sea and in national ports. The five-pollution ...
Dec 11, 2007
Kate Ceberano, the U.N. and a HERO — Epoch Times
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Peta Evans Source:
Epoch Times Singers Kate Ceberano and Christine Anu headlined a Melbourne celebration for the 59th anniversary of the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights.
"Victoria, being that it has the charter for human rights and responsibilities, it's time now to make the country aware of this and to have a human rights bill as well for the entire country," said Kate Ceberano, ambassador for Youth for Human Rights Australia.
"That would be very important, and I'm here to stand behind that."
During the free ...
Dec 10, 2007
Germany Acts to Legally Ban Scientology — Christian Post
Type: Press
Author(s):
Ethan Cole Source:
Christian Post The homeland of legendary church reformer Martin Luther said over the weekend it will seek to ban the Church of Scientology – an organization considered to be in conflict with Germany’s constitution.
High level German officials, including all 16 state interior ministers, agreed to give the nation’s domestic intelligence agency the job of preparing necessary information to ban the organization, which is considered by most Christians a cult, according to The Associated Press.
The ministers, including federal Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, ...
Dec 10, 2007
Germany attacks Scientology — The Scotsman (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Louis Charbonneau Source:
The Scotsman (UK) WOLFGANG Schaeuble, the German interior minister, launched a verbal assault against the Church of Scientology yesterday, accusing it of trying to gain political power.
Mr Schaeuble and the country's 16 state interior ministers have declared Scientology unconstitutional.
And in a newspaper interview, he said: "Scientology is working in Germany to secure political power and influence. Fundamental rights, including human rights like the right to equal treatment, are limited or abrogated. The democratic system is rejected."
Mr Schaeuble and his state counterparts ...
Dec 10, 2007
Lack of Evidence: Agencies Warn Scientology Ban Doomed to Fail — Spiegel
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Spiegel Germany's domestic intelligence agencies are warning that an effort by the country's interior ministers to ban Scientology could fail. They say the group has failed to gain a foothold in German society and that there isn't enough evidence to support freezing its activities.
A plan by Germany's state interior ministers to attempt to ban Scientology appears to have little chance of success. According to an assessment made by officials at the country's state and federal intelligence agencies, the Offices for the ...
Dec 10, 2007
Minister says Scientologists seek power in Germany — Reuters
Type: Press
Author(s):
Louis Charbonneau Source:
Reuters BERLIN (Reuters) - German Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble launched a verbal assault against the Church of Scientology on Sunday, accusing it in a newspaper interview of trying to secure political power and influence in Germany. A spokeswoman for Scientology in Germany dismissed Schaeuble's allegations as "insane". Schaeuble and the country's 16 state interior ministers declared Scientology unconstitutional on Friday, opening the way for a possible ban on the organisation. "Scientology is also working in Germany to secure political power and influence," ...
Dec 9, 2007
Court fight looms as Germany seeks to outlaw Scientologists — The Sunday Times (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s):
Imre Karacs Source:
The Sunday Times (UK) The Church of Scientology vowed yesterday to invoke America’s help in its battle against the German government, which declared it unconstitutional last week in the first step towards an outright ban.
Sabine Weber, president of the church in Berlin, said the organisation would drag the German government through the courts and expected to win, with support from the US State Department.
“Criminal examinations [in the past] all ended in our favour,” said Weber.
Last Friday the German government gave the security ...
Dec 8, 2007
German ministers try to ban Scientology — The Guardian (UK)
Dec 8, 2007
Germany moves to ban Scientology — BBC News
Dec 8, 2007
Germany working to ban 'unconstitutional' Scientology — JURIST
Dec 7, 2007
Church of Scientology House in Memphis For Sale — Memphis Flyer
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Memphis Flyer DECEMBER 7, 2007 - 11:11 AM
Here's a real bargain for those of you looking for a nice homey place in Central Gardens: The Church of Scientology is offering to sell its Memphis headquarters at 1440 Central for a mere $895,000.
Sure, it may sound a little pricey, but the amenities are pretty sweet: There are 17 rooms, including six bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, a game room, a 750-sq. ft. den, three fireplaces, and a "finished" basement.
And that basement, by ...
Dec 7, 2007
German ministers say Scientology unconstitutional — Washington Post
Dec 7, 2007
German officials want Church of Scientology banned in the country — Globe and Mail (Canada)
Dec 7, 2007
Germany moves to ban Scientology — CNN
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