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Nov 2, 2005
In brief: Cruise donates £2m to Scientology — Guardian Unlimited
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Guardian Unlimited Tom Cruise has emerged as the biggest ever donor to the controversial Church of Scientology. The actor and his pregnant fiancee Katie Holmes were given a standing ovation at the cult's annual gala in East Grinstead, Sussex at the weekend, where Cruise received a Diamond Meritorious Award for donating £2m. Cruise became a vocal member of the Scientologists 15 years ago. [...]
Mar 16, 2005
Immigrant accused of weapons-smuggle plot — Guardian Unlimited
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Michael Weissenstein Source:
Guardian Unlimited NEW YORK (AP) - Federal prosecutors charged Tuesday that a 26-year-old Armenian immigrant led a plot to sell military weapons to an FBI informant posing as a middleman for terrorists. Other law enforcement officials, however, cast doubt on the danger posed by Artur Solomonyan and his associates, who allegedly claimed to be able to deliver rocket-propelled grenades, shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles and other arms from the former Soviet Union. ``It's unclear if they were ever able to deliver on their promise on ...
Oct 22, 2004
Curtain goes up on Scientology — Guardian Unlimited
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Dan Glaister Source:
Guardian Unlimited At last, audiences can discover the secrets of Scientology without being zapped by the fabled electropsychometer, writes Dan Glaister It is the show that has everything: music, dancing, children, celebrities. Hey, it even has threatening phone calls and the hint of divine retribution. A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant opened in Los Angeles last week after a successful run in New York at the end of last year. The play is pretty much what the title implies: an unauthorised pageant ...
Mar 27, 2003
Cult church censured on drug ads — Guardian Unlimited
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Stephen Bates Source:
Guardian Unlimited A Church of Scientology advert claiming that its programmes had "salvaged" 250,000 people from drug abuse has been censured by the Advertising Standards Authority as unproved, following a complaint by the Church of England. The ruling related to a poster coinciding with a campaign run two years ago by the church. In effect it claimed that the church had saved all those who had completed its drug programmes. It did not mention that its definition of drug use included an occasional ...
Feb 21, 2002
France puts Scientology sect on trial — Guardian Unlimited
Nov 30, 2001
Scientologists take Belgium to court — Guardian Unlimited
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Andrew Osborn Source:
Guardian Unlimited The Church of Scientology says it is suing the Belgian state over an official report that labelled it a dangerous sect and accused it of brainwashing. The lawsuit has been lodged as Belgium's authorities pursue a separate investigation of the group after allegations of fraud, forgery and tax evasion. Citing the European convention on human rights, the movement argues that it is a bona fide religious minority which has suffered discrimination at the hands of "intolerant" secular authorities and that its ...
Oct 19, 2000
Earth under threat again as Travolta hints at sci-fi sequel — Guardian Unlimited
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Guardian Unlimited John Travolta has threatened to make a sequel to his universally slammed sci-fi epic Battlefield Earth. Defending the scientology-inspired film to journalists this week, he said: "The bottom line is that I feel really good about it. Here I was taking big chances, breaking a new genre I am so thrilled, believe it or not, at the outcome because I didn't believe I could get it done." Asked whether there would be a 'Battlefield 2' he said: "Sure.Yeah." Described by critics ...
May 31, 2000
Cult classic — Guardian Unlimited
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Duncan Campbell Source:
Guardian Unlimited Does John Travolta's Battlefield Earth contain subliminal messages recruiting Scientologists? Amid a flurry of bizarre claims and counterclaims, only one thing is certain: it is one of the worst movies ever made. Duncan Campbell reports It is the year 3000 and "man-animals" are scrabbling for survival in the lonely expanse of what the mighty Psychlos describe as "this pitiful excuse for a planet". It is also the year 2000 and a mere seven man-animals are scrabbling for their popcorn in the ...
Mar 27, 2000
Travolta and Will Smith caught in religious rows — Guardian Unlimited
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Guardian Unlimited In yet another fine weekend for protest groups, the anti-scientology group FactNet has warned that "lawsuits may soon be flying" over John Travolta's upcoming Battlefield Earth. FactNet accuses the movie - adapted from a sci-fi novel by cult founder L Ron Hubbard and starring celebrity scientologist Travolta - of accommodating "subliminal messages to surreptitiously recruit new members from the movie audience". FactNet goes on to allege that the would-be religion - beloved of Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and other film stars ...
Jun 9, 1999
Scientologists pay for libel — Guardian Unlimited
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Clare Dyer Source:
Guardian Unlimited The Church of Scientology agreed yesterday to pay £55,000 libel damages to a former member the church accused of waging a "hate campaign" against it. The controversial church, founded in the early 1950s by the late science fiction writer L Ron Hubbard, apologised at the high court in London for publishing a defamatory leaflet about Bonnie Woods, an American who became a Scientologist in the 1970s but left the church in 1982. The out of court settlement ends a six-year legal ...
Feb 8, 1980
Scientology's bizarre manual of dirty tricks — Guardian Unlimited
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