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.”
Freedom: Investigative Journalism in the Public Interest
Freedom seeks out and illuminates solutions to society’s problems. Freedom addresses issues, not politics. Freedom uplifts human aspiration. It stands for accurate and accountable reporting and publishes information available in no other publication.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 …
Notre Dame Cathedral Reopens, Completing Its Latest Miracle
Dec 8, 2024 · Notre Dame is a towering building, measuring 420 feet long and 157 feet wide, with a roof 115 feet high, a tower of 226 feet and a soaring spire reaching 315 feet in the air. It is not the oldest cathedral in the world, but is unequalled in its architectural splendor and sheer beauty. Restoration was made easier by a near miraculous stroke of luck: The vaulted ceiling of the cathedral kept ...
Religion Ties Us Together—A Holiday Message of Common Faith
Dec 26, 2024 · The revelation came earlier this fall that Americans have more in common than previously believed—and that commonality is thanks, largely, to religion. The discovery, the product of an exhaustive two-year study, warrants a closer look as we find ourselves in the three-month period from November ...
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.