USE OF PARISHIONER DONATIONS IN ACCOMPLISHING SCIENTOLOGY'S RELIGIOUS, SOCIAL AND HUMANITARIAN MISSION

| Los Angeles • SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 |

September 22, 2011

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St. Petersburg Times

USE OF PARISHIONER DONATIONS
IN ACCOMPLISHING SCIENTOLOGY’S
RELIGIOUS, SOCIAL AND HUMANITARIAN MISSION

INTRODUCTION

The St. Petersburg Times August 2011 letters distort and misrepresent the Church of Scientology’s policies and practices. The Times pattern of biased reporting regarding Scientology permeates every question and ignores the real issue—how are the funds raised by the Church used to forward Scientology’s religious, social and humanitarian mission?

This memorandum provides critical information on the Church’s use of parishioner donations to support the greatest period of growth in Church history, information the Times, in furtherance of its agenda of publishing uniformly negative pieces on Scientology, has chosen to ignore.

Scientologists, like parishioners of any religion, want nothing more than to build their Churches and disseminate their Scripture. The Catholic Church commenced construction of its cathedrals in the Middle Ages; Scientology, a new religion, has a similar Church building program in the 21st century.

If the Times were truly reporting matters of interest regarding the Church of Scientology, it would have reported on any of the 25 new Scientology Churches opened in recent years. It did not. Indeed, when the Church of Scientology of Tampa moved to Ybor Square in newly renovated premises, the only major news organization in the Tampa Bay area that did not cover this new Church was the St. Petersburg Times. The Times never published a story “examining” donations to other Churches—the only religion targeted is Scientology.

The Church and its parishioners are proud of what we accomplish to achieve the Aims of Scientology. The information that follows provides a summary of the religious, social and humanitarian accomplishments and activities that our parishioners support. There are hundreds of thousands of Scientology parishioners who happily and generously donate to support their religion, as do parishioners of other faiths support their chosen religion.

IDEAL CHURCHES OF SCIENTOLOGY

A significant factor in the Church's expansion has been the establishment of new Ideal Scientology Churches. Every world religion, for thousands of years, has depended on the support of parishioners to provide a place of worship. The Scientology religion has been industrious in the past five years to establish the most efficient and economical network of professionals to accomplish this task. And as with any religion, it requires considerable work to build a church or a cathedral and we take care to do so in a manner that will see to the continued dissemination and ministry of Scientology religious services for generations to come.

Our goal is the establishment of “Ideal Church Organizations” in every geographic area our Churches currently exist and to do this the Church has built an organization commensurate with the scope of this project:

Retained an international real estate and construction company for the acquisition of Church buildings and for the hiring and supervision of architects and contractors; one of the largest in the world, CB Richard Ellis.

Retained an international design firm, to design all new Church buildings; Gensler, one of the world’s most renowned architectural design firms.

Established a network of global vendors to supply building materials (carpets, draperies, upholstery, etc.) and furnishings (desks, chairs, etc.) for all of our Churches to cut out middlemen and utilize the “buying power” of the Church to obtain the cheapest possible price on all elements of renovation and construction. For example a German chair manufacturer supplies virtually every chair for our new Churches, each with a lifetime warranty, at a 60 percent discount. The Church also contracts with one of the largest furniture manufacturers in the world, who provides all of the office furniture for our new Churches at the best prices in the history of their company. A sauna manufacturer from Finland supplies the saunas for our Churches, custom made to order and similarly at the lowest obtainable cost. There are also fabric mills and carpet and flooring manufacturers that the Church deals with directly who produce the fabric for all of our seating and drapery at similar discounts. These and other cost reductions enable these new Churches to be built at approximately one fourth it would otherwise cost.

In addition to the establishment of global vendors, we have retained professional “hospitality” companies in different parts of the world to specify all items for each individual Church.

Further, the Church has built its own “custom mill”—a state-of-the-art workshop—that produces the custom signage and specialty items unique to our Churches. This is a cost-saving action but also uses the necessary input of Scientologists (who perform all the work) as the items are religious artifacts in many instances.

Another key factor ignored by the Times is that the Church is enjoying a period of tremendous expansion during an economic downturn. It is rare you find a church and its parishioners doing so well when the economy is doing so poorly. That is why the Church has opened so many new Churches and has so many new members. (The Times, in contrast, has lost substantial readership and has cut staff and the salaries of full-time employees [See “St. Petersburg Times Announces Staff Pay Cuts,” September 8, 2011].)

These Churches are established for our parishioners to practice their religion as well as to serve their surrounding communities. They follow very specific design criteria and space requirements to enable each Church to minister all the religious services L. Ron Hubbard provided. The practical aspect of this program is rooted not in the acquisition of property, but in the simple fact that the Church has a continually expanding need to find new and/or larger buildings to accommodate growing congregations and enable them to better fulfill their commitment to the community. The expansion and continued ministry of the Scientology religion are supported by parishioner donations. What follows is a list of the new Churches we have opened in the past five years (2006–2011), as well as those currently under renovation or being planned for renovation.

A) Since 2006, openings of newly renovated Churches:

B) Church renovation/construction projects in progress or already planned and about to commence renovations:

1) In progress renovation of a new Church of Scientology in Inglewood, California.
2) In progress renovation of a new Church of Scientology in Tel Aviv, Israel.
3) In progress renovation of a new Church of Scientology in Twin Cities, Minnesota.
4) In progress renovation of a new Church of Scientology in Sacramento, California.
5) In progress renovation of a new Church of Scientology in Cincinnati, Ohio.
6) Renovations planned and about to commence on a new Church of Scientology in Orange County,
California.
7) Renovations planned and about to commence on a new Church of Scientology in Portland, Oregon.
8) Renovations planned and about to commence on a new Church of Scientology in Phoenix, Arizona.
9) Renovations planned and about to commence on a new Church of Scientology in Denver, Colorado.
10) Renovation and full historic restoration planned and about to commence on the Hollywood Inn in
Hollywood, California.

C) Newly purchased premises now in the design and planning stage, by geographic area:

UNITED STATES

1) Albuquerque, New Mexico
2) Atlanta, Georgia
3) Battle Creek, Michigan
4) Boston, Massachusetts
5) Burbank, California
6) Chicago, Illinois
7) Columbus, Ohio
8) Detroit, Michigan
9) Harlem, New York
10) Kansas City, Missouri
11) Mountain View, California
12) New Haven, Connecticut
13) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
14) St. Louis, Missouri

CANADA

15) Mono, Ontario
16) Kitchener, Ontario
17) Montréal, Québec
18) Toronto, Ontario
19) Winnipeg, Manitoba

LATIN AMERICA

20) Bogotá, Colombia
21) Las Lomas, Mexico
22) Caracas, Venezuela
23) Valencia, Venezuela

EUROPE

24) Brescia, Italy
25) Pordenone, Italy
26) Torino, Italy
27) Copenhagen, Denmark
28) Budapest, Hungary
29) Basel, Switzerland

UNITED KINGDOM

30) Birmingham, England
31) Manchester, England
32) Plymouth, England

AFRICA

33) Johannesburg, South Africa
34) Cape Town, South Africa
35) Durban, South Africa
36) Port Elizabeth, South Africa
37) Pretoria, South Africa
38) Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
39) Harare, Zimbabwe

AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND/ASIA

40) Sydney, Australia
41) Auckland, New Zealand
42) Kaohsiung, Taiwan

All of the above are in addition to our tremendous growth in Clearwater, reflected in:

1) The full restoration of the Oak Cove Hotel and religious retreat (Clearwater)
2) The full restoration of the Fort Harrison Hotel and religious retreat (Clearwater)
3) The near completion of the construction of the Church’s new spiritual Mecca, the Flag building

Further information on our ongoing expansion program in Clearwater is available at: www. scientology.org/churches/flag-land-base.html

It is quite possible that no religious institution today has as many churches in the process of construction as the Church of Scientology. Our church building program is a huge undertaking that will guarantee the furtherance of the religion for generations to come. This is only made possible through the generous contributions of our parishioners who enthusiastically support the opening of new Ideal Churches throughout the world to further Scientology’s religious mission.

For further information see: www.scientology.org/churches/churches-of-scientology.html

HERITAGE SITES

In addition to new Churches of Scientology around the world, L. Ron Hubbard Heritage Sites—homes and offices in which the religion’s Founder researched and developed the spiritual path of Scientology—have been restored and opened to the public. These Heritage Sites have been acquired and restored by the Church and Scientologists travel to these sites because of their historical significance to the development of the religion. Members of the public also are welcome to tour these Heritage Sites upon request.

Many of these Heritage Sites are now registered historical sites. They are located in Phoenix, Arizona; Washington, D.C.; Johannesburg, South Africa; London, England and Bayhead, New Jersey. The Bayhead Heritage Site opened in honor of Mr. Hubbard’s centennial this year and was acclaimed by Scientologists worldwide. It is the location where Mr. Hubbard wrote Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.

For more information see: www.lronhubbard.org

THE GOLDEN AGE OF KNOWLEDGE

In 2010, the Church completed a 25-year program to recover all of L. Ron Hubbard's writings and lectures on Scientology. The 25-year endeavor involved 2 million man-hours to restore more than 2,000 recorded lectures, the majority of which were never before available and are a significant portion of the religion's Scripture. All of Mr. Hubbard's written words including 18 books and 1,000 written issues were then verified against his handwritten manuscripts and dictation, including the fragile wax disks used in early dictation equipment. Transcription errors, out-of-sequence or missing pages and chapters, and editorial alterations were verified and corrected. Mr. Hubbard's books were then meticulously designed, typeset, printed and bound to achieve the highest level of readability, comprehension and durability.

The fundamental materials that are the core part of the Scientology religion are referred to as “The Basics.” The Basics comprise 18 of Mr. Hubbard's books and 280 accompanying lectures; the release of these materials changed the world of Scientology forever.

With full restoration of the written and recorded Scripture of Scientology, the 18 basic books are now available in audiobook format in 15 languages, and the most fundamental books of Scientology have now been translated into 50 languages. The Scientology religion is available and accessible to more people today than at any time in history.

This tremendous undertaking to restore and produce all of the Scripture included:

The release of L. Ron Hubbard’s Congress Lectures, 196 lectures available on CD consisting of 18 series forming the milestones of Scientology. These lectures were made available in 16 languages along with the Materials Guide Chart, the first ever map for study of the materials of Dianetics and Scientology. (The Congress Lectures are special events where Mr. Hubbard announced milestone breakthroughs in Scientology; they were attended by Scientologists from around the world.)

The publication of “The Basics,” Mr. Hubbard’s basic books and companion lectures that form the foundation of the religion now conform precisely to Mr. Hubbard’s original works.

The completion of a painstaking film-restoration project providing seven filmed lectures and one filmed interview with Mr. Hubbard to Scientologists everywhere.

The release of the nine books that comprise L. Ron Hubbard’s Beginning Books of Dianetics and Scientology simultaneously in 50 languages. These titles and their translations expand the availability of Dianetics and Scientology to 80 percent of the planetary population.

The Beginning Books were made available in paperback form with companion audiobooks to make Mr. Hubbard’s legacy available for mass distribution.

The final element was the release of more than 1,000 of Mr. Hubbard’s Advanced Clinical Course lectures providing the day-by-day record of research. The lectures had never been available before. The lectures provide fundamental insight into the path to spiritual freedom researched and illuminated by Mr. Hubbard that culminated in the Bridge to Total Freedom.

Scientologists heralded these releases as a dream come true for the legacy of the religion, as they now have available all books and lectures on the Scientology Materials Guide Chart:

New courses for all of Mr. Hubbard’s lecture series, available for Scientologists at any level and making it possible for someone to follow in Mr. Hubbard’s footsteps with a complete chronological study now possible for the first time ever.

The 18 Basic books in audiobook format, unabridged and available in 16 languages.

The final Congress series, lost for 50 years and now available for the first time ever, also in 16 languages.

Introductory lectures L. Ron Hubbard delivered in 1954 and 1955 salvaged, restored and preserved and made available for the first time in 16 languages.

Mr. Hubbard’s classic lectures, 26 for new parishioners, 52 in total, covering every facet of Scientology, including some of the most treasured lectures Mr. Hubbard gave.

The Materials Guide Book, the first and only guidebook to the entire body of Mr. Hubbard’s books and lectures, providing the means for any Scientologist to progress on their spiritual quest.

When announcing the completion of this 25-year project, Mr. Miscavige described it as, “the ultimate guarantee for the permanency of Scientology itself.” Mr. Miscavige led this historic undertaking and personally carried this massive project through the course of two decades. He describes its importance to Scientologists in an historic briefing, which has been enthusiastically received world wide. You can see more information about this historical accomplishment at www.scientology.org/basics.

PUBLICATIONS ORGANIZATIONS

To make this material available to Scientologists and new initiates alike required a new approach to their production, owing to the unique problems inherent in disseminating a modern religion. Unlike normal book publishers, whose titles go in and out of stock, in Scientology, every title must always be in stock as it is the Scripture of our religion. And it must ultimately be made available in every language on Earth, even where few, if any, Scientologists currently reside. How to do this in an economical manner is a question addressed by all religions, not just Scientology. Indeed, monks translated and hand copied the Bible less than a thousand years ago.

Digital technology opened the door to both reducing costs and increasing the quantity and dissemination of Mr. Hubbard’s works. Prior technology prohibited the production of small quantities of these books and lectures in different languages in a cost-effective manner. Thus, the Church established all-digital, print-on-demand, religious publishing facilities in the 274,000-square-foot Bridge Publications in Los Angeles and at New Era Publications in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Combined, these facilities can now publish the full Scientology Scripture, much of it in 50 languages, up to 500,000 books per week (26 million a year) and 925,000 CDs per week (48.1 million annually). They are the largest and only all-digital publishing houses in the world, enabling the Church to provide our Scripture and other religious materials to Churches around the world in the quantities and languages needed to serve the rapid growth Scientology is experiencing. As a result of these new facilities, it is now possible for the Church to provide materials in new languages, in the smaller quantities needed to open up new lands to our religion, at the same cost as large English language printings.

No one in the world has the library of materials we have. Mr. Hubbard’s voluminous research is carefully preserved on recorded lectures and summarized in his books and other publications. Translating and producing these scriptural materials is an ongoing project and will ultimately result in literally hundreds of thousands of individual publications, all permanently in stock at our Publications Organizations. A considerable investment was required to establish publications facilities capable of producing these materials at affordable costs and with the efficiency needed to match our dissemination efforts. These publications facilities were established to make us capable of producing the Scientology Scripture well into the future for all languages of Earth and to supply the needs of all parishioners, Scientology groups, Missions and Churches world over.

These state-of-the-art facilities have been recognized in their field for their innovative organization and efficiency but what is most significant is that they have made possible the broad dissemination of the Scripture of Scientology at vastly reduced costs so we can bring the religion to mankind. For more information on our publication facilities see: http://www.scientology.org/videos.html#/videos/category/churches/scientology-publications-organizations.

By establishing the Church’s in-house printing operations and greatly streamlining the facilities, the Church has eliminated the profits of outside printers and has been able to substantially reduce the cost of materials to parishioners. These materials are made available to parishioners as close to “at cost” as possible, taking into consideration the actual cost of materials as well as the maintenance and upkeep of the printing facilities, administrative costs and the costs associated with maintaining an inventory of more than 100,000 items. The materials today are on average 39 percent cheaper than they were in 1986.

The 18 books that make up The Basics, hardback in 1986 cost $738.00. Today those fully restored materials cost $475.00 (an average 36% reduction).

There are over 1,000 lectures in Mr. Hubbard’s Advanced Clinical Course lectures. While he delivered these lectures between 1953 and 1961, only a portion of them were available to Scientologists beyond those attending the original course, and at a cost of approximately $18.00 per lecture on reel-to-reel tape in the mid-1950s. Today, those lectures are on individual compact disc as low as $6.00 per lecture and include transcripts, glossary and index.

Not only have these materials been made available to parishioners at reduced cost, not only are they now available in foreign languages and at economical prices that would have been previously impossible, but Mr. Hubbard’s fundamental materials have been donated to libraries throughout the world, some 100,000 in total, including:

All 18 of Mr. Hubbard’s books on the fundamentals of Dianetics and Scientology in English and 15 languages

The six core fundamental books of Dianetics and Scientology in the 50 most prominent languages on Earth

Audiobooks covering the core fundamentals of Dianetics and Scientology in 15 languages

Books-on-film on Dianetics, Scientology and Mr. Hubbard’s non-religious moral code The Way to Happiness, in 15 languages

Through parishioner support, these materials were provided in multiple copies to larger libraries and in the language of the relevant library (and in more than one language where the library provides materials in multiple languages) for the purpose of disseminating our religion in the broadest way possible.

DISSEMINATION AND DISTRIBUTION CENTER

Another activity directly supported by parishioner donations has been the establishment of a new 185,000-square-foot facility for the production of Church dissemination and humanitarian materials.

The cost to establish this facility was considerable, and it was made possible through the support of our parishioners, including the proceeds from the sale of religious materials so we could increase our dissemination commensurate with the growth of our religion.

This state-of-the-art printing facility enables the Church to produce all of its religious dissemination items in-house in multiple languages, as well as humanitarian materials. These materials can now be disseminated at a rate ten times our previous levels for virtually the same cost. As mentioned earlier, the Church also installed a Custom Mill for the production of the unique religious artifacts and signs that go into every one of the Ideal Churches of Scientology. This facility is part of the Dissemination and Distribution Center and is capable of producing all specialty items for one Scientology Church every 10 days, all at considerable cost savings while maintaining the highest quality. I invite you to watch the video presenting this dissemination and distribution center at: www.scientology.org/videos.html#/videos/category/churches/scientology-state-of-the-art-dissemination-center.

FILM PRODUCTION

Mr. Hubbard foresaw how audiovisual aides could enhance training in, and communication of, basic principles of Dianetics and Scientology as early as 1961. He envisioned and ultimately wrote scripts for Scientology Training Films and outlined Public Scientology Motion Pictures for in-house and broad-scale release. More than a decade ago, you toured the facilities where these films are produced, Golden Era Productions. You can also see a recent video showing the staff and location at www.scientology.org/goldenera.

The Church has produced numerous films, including 28 Technical Training Films that are part of the Scripture and are a necessary part of training Scientology auditors. Additional films have also been produced to disseminate the religion and in furtherance of Scientology’s social and humanitarian programs. All these films are produced and made available through parishioner donations, including:

A book-on-film version of L. Ron Hubbard’s landmark work, Dianetics. At over 4½ hours, this was a monumental undertaking serving as a companion to the book and visually demonstrating Dianetics principles and procedures. The film is the centerpiece of all new Dianetics services and materials for new parishioners consisting of the Hubbard Dianetics Seminar, a two-day introduction program.

The Problems of Work film drawn directly from the pages of L. Ron Hubbard’s book of the same title, illustrating basic Scientology principles for use in everyday life. Among these Scientology principles are the triangle of Affinity, Reality and Communication, which are the Components of Understanding; the Anatomy of Confusion; the Anatomy of Control; the Secret of Efficiency; and the underlying mental and spiritual reasons for Exhaustion and their remedy.

The common-sense guide to better living, The Way to Happiness, produced as a completely unabridged book-on-film. At over two hours in length, it is for any individual to help those around him by following the precepts to live a happy and fulfilling life. The film followed the international release of 21 public service announcements featuring each of the 21 common sense principles, seen by some 300 million television viewers.

A full-length documentary giving the experiences of real people and their real stories, The Truth About Drugs.

A film giving The Story of Human Rights as an educational aid.

HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVES
& SOCIAL BETTERMENT PROGRAMS

The expansion of the Scientology religion cannot be measured purely by physical growth. The donations of Scientologists to their Churches and to the IAS also make possible a dramatic increase in the resources devoted to our worldwide humanitarian initiatives and social betterment programs.

These programs have touched the lives of more than one-and-a-half billion people and include:

Foundation for a Drug-Free World:

The Church sponsors the largest nongovernmental anti-drug campaign in the world: the “Say No to Drugs Say - Yes to Life” program. Parishioners contribute their time and energy to support this campaign that has reached more than 400 million through TV sponsorship, another 30 million through one-on-one booklet distribution and 3.5 million children who have pledged to lead drug-free lives through the Church-sponsored Drug-Free Marshals.

The anti-drug campaign includes distribution of anti-drug educational materials (which neither contain nor advocate any Scientology beliefs) through a worldwide network of volunteers, all of it done at no cost. The Church also supplies these materials to tens of thousands of like-minded anti-drug coalitions, government institutions, civic groups and schools. The Church's program is now the largest nongovernmental anti-drug education initiative in the world.

The Church commissioned the production of public service announcements, an award-winning documentary about real people and the destructive influence of the most commonly abused drugs and an educator's guide, all of which are used as part of this campaign. The materials have been translated in more than 15 languages and the translations project continues.

The materials for the anti-drug initiative include:

The Truth About Drugs booklet series. A series of 13 educational booklets covering major "drugs of choice" and presented in a straightforward manner to educate young people on the actual effects of drugs. Since the Church started sponsoring this campaign, The Truth About Drugs booklets have been produced and distributed in 20 languages worldwide. In the past year, more than 4 million booklets were given, absolutely free, to individuals and like-minded groups and organizations in 141 countries, bringing our distribution to more than 30 million since we began.

The Truth About Drugs "They Said/They Lied" public service announcements to complement The Truth About Drugs booklets. Each PSA takes up an individual illicit drug or substance and graphically depicts its debilitating effects. The public service announcements have aired on over 500 stations, reaching some 72 million viewers in 37 countries around the world, including sponsored placements on all seven Tampa Bay broadcast TV stations, as well as national and regional placements on NBC, ABC, Fox, MTV, VB 1, CNN, CNBC, BET, BBC America and international placements on National Geographic, CNN International and Sky News.

The Truth About Drugs, an award-winning 90-minute documentary based on each of the 13 The Truth About Drugs booklets, providing an in-depth look at 13 individual drugs, as told by those who survived addiction. The Church not only sponsored the production of the documentary but also the paid placement of this on five local Tampa Bay broadcast TV stations as well as strategic sponsorships and airplay throughout the world on 150 stations including: A&E, The Learning Channel, Discovery Channel, NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox and CW and dozens of foreign language TV channels.

Over 280,000 Truth About Drugs information/action kits have been sent to law enforcement, anti-drug agencies, organizations and individuals throughout the world who contacted the Foundation for its educational material.

The Truth About Drugs Educator's Package is the definitive resource for those involved in drug education. It contains an educator's manual with lesson plans, sets of the booklets for the kids, the documentary and PSAs. Launched in 2009, there have been over 12,000 educator packages requested and shipped to schools, drug educators and law enforcement officers around the world.

Drug-Free World website (www.drugfreeworld.org). The Church sponsored the creation of a much-needed resource center for kids and educators on the subject of illicit drugs and substances. In the last three years 4.6 million visitors have viewed the site, including hundreds of thousands of educators, government institutions and drug education specialists from over 169 countries.

Print Publication Information Campaign. The Church also sponsors the placement of a series of full-page public information ads on The Truth About Drugs program. These are placed in professional publications read by those involved in drug education and prevention. Dozens of such ads have appeared in publications such as, American Police Beat, The Journal of School Safety, School Counselor, American Journal of Health Education, Journal of Addiction/Offender Counseling and Counseling Today.

For further information, see: www.drugfreeworld.org.

Human Rights Education Campaign:

The Church also sponsors the largest and only privately supported international human rights public information campaign. The campaign broadly publicizes the 30 Articles of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights with public service announcements for every article, an award-winning film providing the history of human rights and booklets serving to fill the gap in human rights education.

For more than 50 years, the Church has championed human rights. Our assistance in this vital area has only increased as our resources have grown and become more available for our humanitarian mission. Our human rights public information campaign has reached an estimated 1 billion people in the last decade alone.

The Church's human rights initiative sponsors a myriad of activities, including The Human Rights World Tour which each year travels to human rights hot spots and has traversed over 175,000 miles throughout 45 nations, reaching some 10 million people.

The Church sponsors this program and the materials are provided freely to groups implementing its solutions. The Church sponsors these initiatives which provide vitally needed material to individuals, groups and government agencies in more than 185 nations. These materials include:

Human Rights publications containing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Church has sponsored the production and distribution of over 2 million of these publications to human rights groups, educators and individuals. All distribution was entirely free.

What Are Human Rights? public service announcements to educate youth and adults on the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in terms anyone can understand. More than 4,500 stations have aired the PSAs with sponsored placements on TV and cable channels such as: A&E, ABC Family, BET, CNN, CNBC, ESPN, Fox News, MSNBC, MTV, National Geographic, The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, The Learning Channel and Sky News International.

The Story of Human Rights film chronicles the history of human rights as an education aide. The Church produced the film and sponsors its distribution for use in educational institutions and has placed it on stations including NBC, ABC, Fox, CW, Biography Channel, A&E, The Learning Channel, Discovery and the History Channel.

Over 200,000 Human Rights information/action kits have been sent to human rights groups and government agencies concerned with the human rights issue inviting them to use the Church-sponsored human rights education materials and program.

The United for Human Rights and Youth for Human Rights Educator's Packages, which are definitive resources for adult and youth education on this subject, have been given to almost 20,000 educators, professors and human rights organizations and groups for their schools, universities and organizations.

In the past year, over 6,000 schools reaching more than 200,000 students have used our free Human Rights Educator Packages to bring home the importance of human rights to future generations.

United for Human Rights (www.humanrights.com) and Youth For Human Rights (www.youthforhumanrights.org) websites are the preeminent human rights resource centers. The Church sponsored the creation of these websites.

On December 10th 2010, UN Human Rights Day, the second annual International Walk for Human Rights was coordinated and held by youth delegates in every corner of the globe, including walks in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Cameroon, Canada, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, Holland, India, Italy, Japan, Mali, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Russia, Scotland, Slovakia, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, the United States and Zambia. In total, 62 Walks for Human Rights were held in honor of the 62nd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The Church also sponsors a yearly Human Rights Summit. In August 2011, the 8th annual Human Rights Youth Summit was held in Geneva. Attended by some 250 delegates, United Nations representatives and human rights NGOs, the youth delegates represented 30 countries working to create leaders through human rights education. Speakers included a former UN Assistant Secretary General, representatives of permanent missions to the UN and nongovernmental organization (NGO) consultants to the United Nations. The 2011 Summit was co-sponsored by the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Haiti; the Human Rights Department of the Church of Scientology International; Village Suisse NGO/ECOSOC (UN Economic and Social Council); the Ariel Foundation International; and the Youth for Human Rights Chapters of Geneva and Vaud, Switzerland.

For further information, see: www.humanrights.com.

Church-sponsored and supported Initiative to Improve Morals:

Our program to instill moral values is designed to help individuals to achieve moral compass so lacking in current society and, on a larger scale, bring about—as we call it—an “Operational Planetary Calm” for the good of all humanity.

This initiative to improve moral standards one-on-one is conducted by The Way to Happiness Foundation and its international network of affiliated chapters and groups, now operating in 154 countries. The Church has given generously to forward this initiative.

The program is based on Mr. Hubbard's common sense guide to better living, The Way to Happiness (TWTH). Contained within its pages are 21 precepts that can be applied by individuals of any race or creed.

Much like our other programs, the materials the Foundation disseminates are both comprehensive and usable. They include The Way to Happiness book, also available as an audiobook; a series of 21 public service announcements corresponding to each of the book's precepts; a full-length book-on-film visually illustrating the book's precepts and their application and an Educator's Manual corresponding to and using the book, PSAs and film.

In the decades since The Way To Happiness was authored, some 93 million copies of the booklet in some 100 languages have been inspiring a movement world over.

Thanks to parishioner contributions and a grant from the US IAS Members Trust, there is a Foundation Headquarters for The Way to Happiness in Glendale, California. Through donations the Foundation has been able to sponsor educational and enlightenment programs for school children and adults alike toward mending the moral fabric of society.

With the assistance of grants from the International Association of Scientologists and the US IAS Members Trust, the Church sponsors a global public information campaign that includes:

The Way to Happiness public service announcements have been viewed by more than 700 million people on 450 stations in 52 countries as well as in numerous venues including sporting events, concerts and in shopping malls. The Church has also sponsored placements of these PSAs on channels such as, A&E, ABC Family, BBC America, BET, CNN, CNBC, Discovery Health, ESPN, Fox News, Lifetime, MSNBC, MTV, National Geographic, Nickelodeon, The Discovery Channel, The Learning Channel and internationally on Sky News and MTV International.

Over 150,000 The Way to Happiness information/action kits have been sent to character educators, teachers and human resource directors as well as heads of small and large corporations and heads of correctional facilities.

The Way to Happiness Educator’s Packages have been made available to nearly 8,000 educators, human resource officers and correctional officers for use in schools, universities, correctional facilities and corporations throughout the world.

The Way to Happiness (www.thewaytohappiness.org) websites were created through Church sponsorship.

Prison programs utilizing The Way to Happiness have delivered an education program in 1,500 correctional facilities in 38 countries to more than 50,000 prisoners.

For more information see: www.thewaytohappiness.org.

Church-sponsored and supported Literacy and Learning Program:

The Church, with the assistance of a grant from the US IAS Members Trust, sponsored the acquisition and renovations of the Applied Scholastics International training center—a 100-acre campus located in the Spanish Lake district of St. Louis, Missouri—to make L. Ron Hubbard's Study Technology broadly available to educators worldwide.

Applied Scholastics trained close to 10,000 teachers and educators from more than 40 countries in Study Technology and currently some 4,500 schools and educational groups are employing Study Technology in their curricula, to the benefit of 3.5 million students. Applied Scholastics programs have in many instances improved literacy rates by 25% to 35%.

For more information see: www.scientology.org/applied-scholastics.

Church-Sponsored Drug Rehabilitation Program:

Narconon is a non-drug-using drug rehabilitation program based on the works of
L. Ron Hubbard. Ten years ago, through parishioner support and a grant from the US IAS Members Trust, Narconon was provided with a new base of operation: Narconon Arrowhead, the largest privately operated residential drug rehabilitation facility of its kind. Narconon Arrowhead stands on 256 acres of woodland on the shores of Lake Eufaula in southeastern Oklahoma.

Narconon Arrowhead also serves as an international training facility for drug rehab specialists with which Narconon has now created a global network of some 200 facilities in more than 40 nations. Narconon Arrowhead has trained professionals from 19 nations and 47 US states. The Narconon rehabilitation program has received college accreditation and is approved for Continuing Education for drug rehabilitation specialists.

For more information see: www.scientology.org/narconon.

The Church's Volunteer Minister Program:

The Church has dedicated considerable resources to the creation of its Scientology Volunteer Ministers corps, which in the past decade has been active in more than 175 disaster relief efforts around the world, partnering with more than 800 agencies and organizations. During the past year, our volunteers have provided one-on-one assistance to more than 2.5 million individuals. Our ministry has trained more than 400,000 to provide volunteer assistance, while helping 12 million one-on-one since September 11, 2001, and has never requested a single donation. The Volunteer Ministers is a broad-based movement made up of individuals from all walks of life dedicated to providing assistance to communities around the world. The Church sponsors over 100 traveling Volunteer Minister centers as well as disaster relief efforts.

Some of the sponsored Volunteer Minister activities include:

Volunteer Ministers have been involved in disaster relief efforts in 42 locations in the last year alone.

Volunteer Ministers have trained and partnered with some 1,000 organizations and agencies, from local police and fire departments to national offices of the Red Cross.

Over 6 million people have visited the Volunteer Ministers website (www.volunteerministers.org) with 150,000 engaging in our free online Volunteer Minister courses in the last year alone.

18 Continental Volunteer Minister Traveling Centers have toured through 116 countries covering over 300,000 miles (more than 140,000 miles within the past year), touring the Amazon Basin, Western and Central Africa, India, South America, the Pacific Islands and the Outback of Australia.

For more information please see: www.volunteerministers.org.

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCIENTOLOGISTS

Many of the activities described above are made possible through parishioner support to the International Association of Scientologists (IAS), an unincorporated membership organization open to all Scientologists from all nations.

The IAS was formed in 1984 at a time when the religious freedom of Scientologists was imperiled. Delegates from Scientology Churches assembled at Saint Hill Manor in England in recognition of the need to unite all Scientologists as an international body. To confirm their dedication toward the Aims of Scientology, those first IAS delegates formulated and signed The Pledge to Mankind, which gives the purpose of the association:

“To unite, advance, support and protect the Scientology religion and Scientologists in all parts of the world so as to achieve the Aims of Scientology as originated by L. Ron Hubbard.”

The IAS has been the guarantee that Scientologists will always be free to practice their religion and it assists Churches of Scientology and Scientologists subjected to religious persecution. The IAS has also always worked to guarantee religious freedom in general, as an inalienable right of Man. Churches of Scientology adopted membership in the International Association of Scientologists as the official membership system of the Scientology religion.

Today, Scientology is expanding at an ever-increasing rate and the time for defense alone has long since passed. That is why a greater amount of IAS funds are now granted to sponsor campaigns that are reshaping the destiny of Earth, such as those described above.

SUMMARY

All donations raised by Churches of Scientology and their affiliated organizations support our worldwide religious and humanitarian mission.

The Church’s growth has continued at a phenomenal rate in the last five years, owing to the leadership of Mr. Miscavige and the dedication of so many parishioners committed to their religion. The members of the Church of Scientology celebrate the many milestones and accomplishments and applaud the work being done to create a new civilization here on Earth.

Contrary to the St. Petersburg Times mischaracterizations, parishioners donate to the Church because they enthusiastically support their chosen faith. They continue to do so because those donations fund programs that parishioners are proud to support: the opening of new Ideal Scientology Churches throughout the world, and the implementation of global humanitarian initiatives and social betterment programs.

In recent years, thanks to stalwart leadership and the generous support of millions of members, the Church has been able to extend these programs deeper and more broadly into worldwide society. In the years to come, Scientology Churches will stand as shining beacons in every major city with programs that bring the miracles of Scientology to the world and result in drug-free, crime-free, moral and happy lives.

A more complete picture of Scientology’s current expansion is documented in the hundreds of separate videos on the Scientology Video Channel at www.scientology.org.

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