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Brainwashed and cut off from her family, Scientology leader’s niece reveals Church secrets in new book
The Church of Scientology has lashed out at a new book by its leader’s niece, which recounts a stolen childhood and how she was brainwashed and cut off from her family before eventually escaping. In “Beyond Belief: My Secret Life Inside Scientology And My Harrowing Escape,” Jenna Miscavige-Hill — whose…
‘The Atlantic’ drops controversial Scientology advertorial
The Atlantic‘s website has dropped a controversial paid advertorial from the Church of Scientology. TheNextWeb.com reported that as of midnight Eastern time, the Atlantic website was displaying a message saying the Scientology article had been taken down “pending a review of our policies that govern sponsor content and subsequent comment…
Tom Cruise denies Scientology auditioned girlfriends
LOS ANGELES — A lawyer for Tom Cruise has dismissed as “tired old lies” a magazine report claiming that the Church of Scientology had auditioned candidates to become a girlfriend for the star. Vanity Fair quoted sources as saying the controversial church — of which Cruise is the most high-profile…
Scientologists deny tailing Tom Cruise’s wife, eyeing daughter
The Church of Scientology denied sending anyone to follow Katie Holmes after she filed for divorce from Tom Cruise, amid reports she feared her husband’s plans for their daughter. A lawyer for the church also dismissed reports that Cruise — a prominent Scientologist – wanted their six-year-old daughter Suri to join the Sea Organization, described as a…
Former Scientologist youth decries Australian ‘forced labor camp’
An Australian man who spent much of his childhood in a facility run by the Church of Scientology told the Seven Network’s Today Tonight that conditions in the compound were inhumane and horrifying. Shane Kelsey alleged that children kept at the facility — a Rehabilitation Project Force — were separated…
French court to rule on Scientology fraud appeal
A Paris court is to rule Thursday in an appeal against a fine of hundreds of thousands of euros imposed on the Church of Scientology after it was found guilty of fleecing vulnerable followers. A 2009 fraud conviction saw Scientology’s Celebrity Centre and its bookshop in Paris, the two branches…
High-profile Scientologist blasts church leader for hoarding money
A former high ranking executive in the Church of Scientology has made waves after an email sent to 12,000 fellow Scientologists on New Year’s Day was leaked to the press. In the email, Debbie Cook described herself as “dedicated to the technology of Dianetics and Scientology” but blasted the church’s…
‘Anonymous’ puts central banks on notice, demands Bernanke resign
Decentralized protest group “Anonymous” has encountered many foes in the past: Sarah Palin, PayPal, the Church of Scientology, MasterCard, the Westboro Baptists and even the governments of Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, to name a few. But now, one of the group’s members has issued a call for perhaps their most…
Scientology: an ongoing, scary cult
If you have the time—or even if you think you don’t—to read a 26 page article in the New Yorker, please spend it reading this one about Paul Haggis and the Church of Scientology. It’s a real argument for the beauty of long form journalism, and came very close to…
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