PRESS RELEASES
PAPUA NEW GUINEA •
Scientology Volunteer Ministers disaster specialists join local volunteers in Papua New Guinnea to help villages recover from a magnitude 7.5 earthquake. A grassroots initiative is helping sooth the anxiety and stress of those coping in the wake of last month’s 7.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA •
Singer-songwriter Wil Seabrook travels the world to promote kindness and decency by raising awareness of human rights. Founder and lead singer of Rock for Human Rights (R4HR), Wil Seabrook’s human rights advocacy informs his work.
OSAKA, JAPAN •
CCHR Japan brought the Psychiatry: An Industry of Death exhibit to the Osaka Dawn Center.
BUFFALO, NEW YORK •
At the University of Buffalo Educational Opportunity Center, women were empowered through a Youth for Human Rights seminar. A workshop presented by the Buffalo chapter of Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI) March 25 at the 4th Annual Women’s Conference, introduced attendees to their rights.
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM •
In celebration of International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Brussels branch of Churches of Scientology for Europe and Youth for Human Rights hold an open house and forum to explore solutions.
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA •
From Winter Wonderland and Easter Egg hunts, to cleaning up communities and disaster relief, can-do citizens energize community good works.
SOUTH DUBLIN •
Scientology Community Centre in South Dublin hosts concert of Punjabi singer Harbhajan Mann. Hundreds of dedicated fans from the Indian and Pakistani communities of Ireland gathered in Firhouse, 23 March for a mega concert with Bollywood’s Harbhajan Mann.
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA •
A group of drug education professionals and representatives of community groups feel ready to tackle talking to kids about drugs after attending a Drug-Free World training session at the Church of Scientology Sacramento.
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA •
On the eve of the next phase of the African Literacy and Human Rights Project, two long-term human rights advocates brief those attending an open house and dinner at the Church of Scientology Pasadena on the goals and importance of their initiative.
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE •
A religious studies class learns fundamentals of the Scientology religion through a tour of the Nashville Church of Scientology.
EAST SUSSEX, ENGLAND •
Drug-Free World Runners team raised more than £1,000 on the Endurancelife half- marathon through the South Downs National Park.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA •
Ecclesiastical leader reveals new channel will show Church of Scientology to the world and answer questions for the curious.
DAKHA, BANGLADESH •
With estimates of more than 5 million people addicted to drugs in Bangladesh, a chapter of Foundation for a Drug-Free World is raising awareness among university students with the Truth About Drugs initiative.
SOUTH DUBLIN, IRELAND •
An eclectic mix of music, games and food—indoors and out—made for a memorable St. Patrick’s Day for young and old. More than 300 locals from South Dublin celebrated St. Patrick’s Family Fun Day Saturday, March 17, at the Scientology Community Centre in Firhouse. The activities started at 1 p.m.
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO •
The Albuquerque Scientology Volunteer Ministers organize a Coffee With a Cop luncheon to bridge differences and bring the community and police together to tackle common goals.
CLEARWATER, FLORIDA •
L. Ron Hubbard’s life and legacy honored at spiritual headquarters in Clearwater, Florida, capped by game-changing unveiling of the Scientology Network for religion’s worldwide growth.
BANJUL, THE GAMBIA •
How a human rights nonprofit is changing the cultural landscape of the Gambia With the end of more than two decades of dictatorship in the Gambia, Nfamarah Jawneh , founder of a local nonprofit, is determined to transform his country through human rights.
SANTA CRUZ, BOLIVIA •
A Venezuelan drug-prevention activist and a Bolivian mayor join forces to counter drug abuse in one of the world’s most rapidly growing city. Not too long ago, Santa Cruz de la Sierra was little more than an agrarian outpost in Bolivia’s Tropical Lowlands.
VIENNA, AUST •
Austrian psychiatrists complicit in the atrocities perpetrated by their Nazi German colleagues These harsh words were the theme of the Psychiatry: An Industry of Death traveling exhibit, which riveted visitors in Vienna and sparked activists to commit themselves to bringing psychiatry under the law
SKOPJE, MACEDONIA •
Drug prevention initiative helps protect youth of the country from the ravages of addiction.