Bipartisan Congressional Vote Reauthorizes US Commission on ...
Oct 13, 2024 · One of the letter’s signatories, the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), hailed the congressional vote extending USCIRF’s authority. “The vital work of USCIRF helps to expose and combat violations of international religious freedom, hold governments accountable and provide helpful context for our missionary efforts,” ERLC Senior Policy Associate Allison ...
USCIRF Releases Report on Worldwide Oppression of Jehovah’s …
Nov 30, 2024 · Global persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses is perpetrated in at least a dozen nations, according to a report released this November by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). The challenges to the community’s religious freedom have targeted and punished the group in ways ranging from the deprivation of rights to more harsh methods like imprisonment, heavy ...
It Took a Long Fight, But Scientology Is Riding High Down Under
Oct 27, 2024 · That is but a glimpse. Scientologists have partnered with community groups to operate a food bank in Melbourne, delivering some 500 meals each week to needy families and providing blankets, food and hot drinks to the homeless in Sydney—all while participating in community cleanups; distributing more than 3.4 million Truth About Drugs booklets; holding some 2,000 drug prevention events ...
Church of Scientology of New York Celebrates 20 Years as an Ideal ...
Sep 26, 2024 · Located in the heart of Times Square, the beating pulse of the city, the Church has served the community for two generations. And now, New York Scientologists celebrate their Church’s 20th anniversary as an Ideal Organization. As Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard put it, “The Ideal Org would be an activity where people came to achieve freedom and where they had confidence they would ...
US Overdose Deaths Decrease for the First Time in Five Years
Oct 11, 2024 · It’s the first promising news of its kind in half a decade: the United States saw an estimated 107,453 drug overdose deaths in 2023, marking a 3 percent decrease from the loss of 111,029 lives in 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.
Lufthansa’s Record Civil Rights Violation Penalty for Antisemitism …
Oct 22, 2024 · In the largest fine it has ever imposed for a civil rights violation, the Department of Transportation (DOT) has levied Lufthansa airlines a penalty of $4 million for denying boarding to 128 Jewish passengers in May 2022.. The passengers, most of them identifiable by the traditional garb of Orthodox Jews, were detained in Frankfurt on …
Martin Scorsese’s New Docuseries on Saints Explores His Own …
Nov 24, 2024 · Scorsese himself narrates The Saints, which features episodes on Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, Moses the Black, Sebastian and the priest Maximillian Kolbe, who voluntarily gave up his life to save that of a fellow prisoner in Auschwitz. Throughout his brilliant career—making heavily spiritual films like The Last Temptation of Christ, Kundun ...
“Our Prayers Have Been Answered”—Prisoner Swap Reunites …
Dec 12, 2024 · Former US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Chair Nury Turkel had much to celebrate on Thanksgiving. For the first time in over 20 years, he was reunited with his mother, Ayshem Mamut.Ms.
International Association of Scientologists Marks 40 Years of …
Oct 8, 2024 · The IAS also makes possible the world-renowned Scientology Volunteer Minister Program, which has brought emergency relief, comfort and hope at every major disaster site since 9/11 to a total of more than 10 million.To see the eyes of victims when they spot the yellow-shirted volunteers making their way with supplies and food is to see what hope looks like.
After Helene Ripped Through Florida, Scientology Volunteer …
Oct 4, 2024 · In Pinellas County, some 400 Scientology Volunteer Ministers are providing aid and comfort in a region where the heat alone can kill the vulnerable. Available on a moment’s notice, their mission is to carry out their motto: “Something can be done about it.”