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46 matching items found between Jan 1997 and Dec 1997. Furthermore, there are 160 matching items for all time not shown.
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Dec 28, 1997
Church of Scientology Hits Critics Where They Live — Seattle Times
Dec 12, 1997
Ex-Scientologist wins $6 million after 17-year fight — Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Kathy Kinsey
Source: Daily Journal (Los Angeles, California)
Type: Tort, intentional infliction of emotion distress, alter ego. Bench decision: Amendment of judgment - $6,025,857 ($4,649,328 renewed judgment plus $1,376,529 accrued interest). Case/Number: Larry Wollersheim v. Church of Scientology of California / C332027. Court/Date: L.A. Superior Central / Oct. 29, 1997. Judge: John P. Shook. Attorneys: Plaintiff - Craig J. Stein (Gartenberg, Jaffe, Gelfand & Stein, LLP, L.A.); Daniel A. Leipold, Cathy Shipe, Robert F. Donohue (Hagenbaugh & Murphy, Orange); Lita Schlosser (Encino); Ford Greene (Hub Law Offices, San Anselmo). ...
Dec 12, 1997
Scientology in Germany — International Herald Tribune
Type: Press
Author(s): William C. Walsh
Source: International Herald Tribune
Regarding "Reassessing U.S.-German Friendship" (Special Report, Dec. 9) by John Dornberg: Mr. Dornberg writes that claims of discrimination against Scientologists in Germany are "ludicrous." As human rights counsel for the Church of Scientology of Germany, I must inform you that Mr. Dornberg's statement is flatly incorrect. I have personally documented hundreds of cases of Scientologists who have been seriously discriminated against in Germany. In some cases they have been forced to leave their country and seek asylum abroad. Scientologists in Germany ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Dec 9, 1997
Behind Facade of Harmony, Nations Are Far Apart on Some Basic Issues — International Herald Tribune
Nov 8, 1997
U.S. Immigration Court Grants Asylum to German Scientologist — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Douglas Frantz
Source: New York Times
TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 7 — A Federal immigration court judge has granted asylum to a German member of the Church of Scientology who claimed that she would be subjected to religious persecution had she been required to return to her homeland, the woman's lawyer and a Scientology official said today. While few details of the case were available, it is believed to be the first time the United States has given asylum protection to a Scientologist. The Church of Scientology has ...
Nov 6, 1997
Concerns over church of Scientology — BBC News
Type: Press
Author(s): Jane Little
Source: BBC News
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Nov 6, 1997
German court undecided over Scientology — BBC News
Type: Press
Author(s): Janet Barrie
Source: BBC News
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 28, 1997
Germany vs. Scientology // Group goes to court to seek status as a religion, not business — Seattle Times
Type: Press
Source: Seattle Times
BERLIN — A day after thousands of Scientologists demanded religious freedom in Germany, the Church of Scientology was trying to convince a German court today that it is a religion. A favorable decision by Germany's highest administrative court would entitle the group to benefits such as tax-exempt status and the freedom to recruit followers. The Los Angeles-based Church of Scientology won a legal battle in July when a court in the Baden-Wuerttemberg state capital, Stuttgart, ruled that Scientology was a religious ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 28, 1997
Scientologists' largest German protest march held in Berlin — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: Los Angeles Times (California)
BERLIN — Speaking from a vast video screen, actor John Travolta told a mass rally of Scientologists here Monday that there is no excuse for government discrimination against religious bodies. Singing and chanting, adherents from Germany, the United States and across Europe joined the L.A.-based Church of Scientology's largest demonstration in Germany against what it said is official discrimination against religious minorities. "Scientology is our religion," Travolta said in the video message, taped in Los Angeles. "It has helped us a ...
Oct 27, 1997
German Scientologists Rally — BBC News
Type: Press
Source: BBC News
About two-thousand members of the Scientology movement have protested in the German capital, Berlin, against what they described as discrimination against religious minorities in Germany. Correspondents say the protest drew far fewer people than had been expected. The German authorities say scientology is not a religion but a dangerous profit-making extremist group. Its members are barred from political office in some parts of Germany and have been under surveillance by the German intelligence services. The group, which is recognised as a ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 1, 1997
Scientology: The science fiction religion — Victorian Inter-Campus Edition (Australia)
Jun 7, 1997
Germany will place Scientology under nationwide surveillance — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Alan Cowell
Source: New York Times
BONN, June 6 — The German authorities decided today to place the Scientology movement under nationwide surveillance for one year, their sharpest action yet in a long battle against a group they say is bent on undermining their democratic society. The decision, which critics called authoritarian and impractical, means that Scientologists' mail may be intercepted, their phones tapped and their offices infiltrated by undercover agents posing as adherents. The organization said it would contest the decision in court. By making public ...
May 7, 1997
Nazi-uniformed protesters get Kohl shoulder — Courier Mail (Australia)
Type: Press
Source: Courier Mail (Australia)
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl ignored protesters wearing Nazi SS uniforms as he boarded a boat for a Sydney Harbour cruise yesterday afternoon. A group of 30 Church of Scientology members, some wearing Nazi SS uniforms and carrying placards reading "Hands Off Our Religion" and "Is Germany Really A Free Country?", heckled Dr Kohl before his cruise. Protester Liz Reeve said the German Government was orchestrating a campaign against Scientologists, even taking their children from schools. "That shouldn't be happening to children ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
May 6, 1997
German chancellor ignores protesters in nazi uniforms — Australian Associated Press (AAP)
Type: Press
Author(s): Shoshana Lenthen
Source: Australian Associated Press (AAP)
SYDNEY, May 6 AAP — German Chancellor Helmut Kohl ignored protesters wearing Nazi SS uniforms as he boarded a boat for a Sydney Harbour cruise this afternoon. A group of 30 noisy demonstrators, members of the Australian branch of the US-based Church of Scientology, some wearing Nazi SS uniforms and carrying placards reading 'Hands Off Our Religion' and 'Is Germany Really A Free Country?', heckled Dr Kohl before his cruise. One protester, Liz Reeve, said the German government was orchestrating a ...
Item contributed by: Zhent (Anonymous)
Apr 25, 1997
The story from Germany is about big changes under way — International Herald Tribune
Type: Press
Author(s): Robert von Rimscha
Source: International Herald Tribune
WASHINGTON— Helmut Kohl is seeking an unprecedented fifth term. America's most important ally seems headed for prolonged stability. So Germany promises to remain boring? Wrong. Chancellor Kohl governs a nation undergoing tremendous change. And Germany's political class is obsessed with youth. This is a story that many Americans miss because their media are hung up on the Holocaust and cover little but old and new Nazis, real or perceived. Essentially, American consumers of news get two stories on Germany: those about ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Apr 1, 1997
Advertisement / The Church of Scientology: Recognition and discrimination — Wall Street Journal
Mar 30, 1997
The true story of a false prophet — Mail on Sunday (UK)
Mar 25, 1997
The Scientology problem — Wall Street Journal
More: holysmoke.org, link
Type: Press
Source: Wall Street Journal
As no doubt befits a society founded by Pilgrims, America has a long tradition of controversial movements maturing to success, whether Mormons or Christian Scientists or Jehovah's Witnesses. Today, the latest cult forcing itself to our attention is the Church of Scientology. Scientology was founded in the early 1950s by L. Ron Hubbard, a science fiction writer. He fashioned a creation myth around Xenu, who froze and transported thetan souls to volcanoes in Teegeeack, now earth. The creed holds that humans ...
Mar 19, 1997
Advertisement: The Church of Scientology's hard-won tax-exempt recognition — New York Times
Mar 18, 1997
Letter to the Editor: Scientology won tax exemption on the merits — New York Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Monique E. Yingling
Source: New York Times
To the Editor: Contrary to Scientology's Puzzling Journey From Tax Rebel to Tax Exempt (front page, March 9), the Internal Revenue Service made its decision to issue exemption rulings to the Church of Scientology in 1993 on the merits following the most in-depth examination in the history of the I.R.S. The role of the I.R.S. committee that was formed to address issues involving the church was not to negotiate a deal but independently and objectively to review the church's qualification for ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 16, 1997
Who can stand up? — New York Times
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Frank Rich
Source: New York Times
Can anyone stand up to the Church of Scientology? Such was the plaintive question asked by The St. Petersburg Times in an editorial last week, and with good reason. The great American religious saga of the 1990's may be the rise to power of a church that has successfully brought the Internal Revenue Service, the State Department and much of the American press to heel even as it did an end-run around the courts. As Douglas Frantz reported in The New ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 9, 1997
Scientology's puzzling journey from tax rebel to tax exempt // Taxes and tactics behind an I.R.S. reversal — New York Times
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Douglas Frantz
Source: New York Times
On Oct. 8, 1993, 10,000 cheering Scientologists thronged the Los Angeles Sports Arena to celebrate the most important milestone in the church's recent history: victory in its all-out war against the Internal Revenue Service. For 25 years, I.R.S. agents had branded Scientology a commercial enterprise and refused to give it the tax exemption granted to churches. The refusals had been upheld in every court. But that night the crowd learned of an astonishing turnaround. The I.R.S. had granted tax exemptions to ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Mar 6, 1997
Nightmare on the Net — Denver Westword News
Type: Press
Author(s): Alan Prendergast
Source: Denver Westword News
A web of intrigue surrounds the high-stakes legal brawl between FACTnet and the Church of Scientology. Strange things happen around Lawrence Wollersheim. His businesses collapse. His Boulder apartment gets raided by federal marshals, his computers seized. When college students offer to help him rebuild his computer bulletin-board system, they receive threatening phone calls–anonymous voices urging them to stay away from Larry. A California judge who presided over a lawsuit in which Wollersheim was the plaintiff told reporters he'd encountered a lot ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Feb 25, 1997
Scientology's "Holocaust" // Is Hollywood on the wrong side in Germany's "Church" vs. state furor? — Salon
Type: Press
Author(s): David Hudson
Source: Salon
BERLIN — “Historically inaccurate and totally distasteful." Strong words from Madeleine Albright, who had good reason to apply them. America's new secretary of State was referring to the widely publicized statement by Oliver Stone, Dustin Hoffman and other Hollywood celebrities equating Germany's current treatment of the Church of Scientology with the Holocaust. When she met with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week, Albright was committed to bringing up U.S. "concerns" about Germany's treatment of Scientologists. At the same time, she clearly ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Feb 20, 1997
German city won't hire Scientologists — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Feb 18, 1997
Albright plays down dispute over Scientology — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
Feb 18, 1997
In brief / Scientology disagreement downplayed — St. Petersburg Times (Florida)
Feb 14, 1997
Celebrity Scientologists tell Congress Germany persecutes them — Seattle Times
Type: Press
Author(s): Laura Myers
Source: Seattle Times
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Feb 10, 1997
Does Germany Have Something Against These Guys? — TIME Magazine
Type: Press
Author(s): Bruce W. Nelan
Source: TIME Magazine
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Feb 6, 1997
Germany versus Scientology — Los Angeles Times (California)
More: link
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