2017-10-24T05:05:39-07:00

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To celebrate his March 13, 1911 birthday, each year Scientologists from sixty countries gather at the religion’s spiritual nexus in Clearwater, Florida in a weekend celebration of their founder’s life. This year, they acknowledged Mr. Hubbard’s seemingly endless accomplishments, and cast their eyes toward a limitless future, inspired by the life and works of L. Ron Hubbard. LRH, as his multitudinous followers know him, was a polymath—a person of wide-ranging knowledge and education. Beginning as the youngest Eagle Scout in American... Read more

2017-10-24T05:05:39-07:00

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Auckland celebrates grand opening of new National Church of Scientology for New Zealand at landmark site overlooking the city. Spirituality. Heritage. Tradition. History. Education. Learning. These are pillars on which rests Scientology’s new Ideal Org of New Zealand, where Scientologists locally and from across the Pacific gathered with friends and supporters on Saturday, January 21, to inaugurate the rebirth of the second oldest Church of Scientology in the world. Overlooking the city and Auckland’s magnificent Waitemata Harbor, the local historic... Read more

2017-10-24T05:05:39-07:00

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The Expansion issue of Freedom Magazine, voice of the Church of Scientology, gives a glimpse inside the new Scientology Media Productions (SMP) in Hollywood, California. It quotes Mr. David Miscavige, Chairman of the Board Religious Technology Center and ecclesiastical leader of the Scientology religion, on why the new facility was created and its importance. Now, with SMP in place, the Church is poised to reach everyone, everywhere, over the airwaves, the Internet and via publications. It’s the culmination of a strategic... Read more

2017-10-24T05:05:40-07:00

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The Church of Scientology has published a new video overview of a few the many global humanitarian and social betterment programs it sponsors or supports. Through some 1,500,000 volunteers worldwide, these programs unite and empower youth, educators, police, clergy, civic leaders and men, women and youth of goodwill. They address the social issues that pervade and degrade society: drug abuse and addiction, human rights violations, disasters, illiteracy, crime and immorality. The overriding message: “The Change Starts with Us.” Read more

2017-10-24T05:05:40-07:00

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The special edition Expansion issue of Freedom Magazine describes the coordinated effort behind the scenes resulting in a million Brazilians and visitors to the Rio Olympics learning the truth about drugs. The Truth About Drugs campaign—produced by the Church of Scientology-sponsored Foundation for a Drug-Free World—delivered gold-medal results by conveying the factual evils of illicit drugs to the people of a nation who consume 18 percent of the world’s cocaine. Marijuana and synthetic drugs are also widely abused. In fact, the drug... Read more

2017-10-24T05:05:40-07:00

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Just had to pass along this posting from The Improvised Life blog Recently I took an ancient friend to visit her doctor. He’s famously late keeping appointments because he famously spends A LOT of time with each patient, whatever he feels is necessary to really hear and address their concerns, which, as we all know, is pretty unusual these days. His patients are happy to wait. At the end of the visit, he unexpectedly wrote me a prescription. “Check this... Read more

2017-10-24T05:05:40-07:00

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The Church of Scientology launched a new website this week, as a comprehensive resource of the bona fides of Scientology. The website, at scientologyreligion.org, provides an in-depth understanding of Scientology and landmark decisions in countries the world over that not only guaranteed the rights of Scientologists to practice their religion, they defined religion, thus protecting the very principles of religious freedom for all. Included in the website is a new publication:  What is Freedom of Religion?  Religious freedom and tolerance have... Read more

2017-10-24T05:05:40-07:00

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According to the Friends of Salaam Baalak Trust website, India has 440 million children. That’s more than the entire population of North America (USA, Mexico and Canada put together). Every fifth child in the world is Indian.  So what sort of life do these children have as they grow up? 40 percent of those under 5 are malnourished 50 percent do not attend school regularly Child labor is estimated at 60 million Two thirds of children are victims of physical abuse... Read more

2017-10-24T05:05:40-07:00

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The grand opening of the Church of Scientology of Bogotá was a truly magnificent occasion. The first Ideal Scientology Church in South America, it was officiated by Chairman of the Board Religious Technology Center Mr. David Miscavige and special guest speakers included Lt. Colonel Anstrongh Polania, Chief of the Department of Joint Operational Law, Ministry of Defense; Lt. Colonel Carlos Peña, Coordinator for Anti-Drug Education, Colombian Anti-Narcotics Department; Captain John Galindo Vega, Operations Director, Circle of Aid Technicians of Colombia (CINAT); Lt.... Read more

2017-10-24T05:05:40-07:00

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In an essay published in 1965, Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard wrote: A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where Man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology.” He further stated, “We seek no revolution. We seek only evolution to higher states of being for the individual and for society.” At that time, the world population was some 3.3 billion people—today it is 7.4 billion.... Read more

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