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It’s not news to anyone that Anonymous hackers condemn the practices of the Church of Scientology and now they came forward to reveal that their operation has “reborn.”
The hacktivist accuse the Church of causing the deaths of several of their members and engaging in policies of censorship across t... |
1 February 2012
05:56 GMT |
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The Church of Scientology, or Sea Org, as it's known, is believed to be one of the richest, most powerful and most macabre religious cults of the moment. Defector Valeska Paris certainly believes this way – and is ready to go public with her shocking story.Now that she's out of the cult and has a norm... |
2 December 2011
09:23 GMT |
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Tom Cruise's 16-year-old son Connor is having a very hard time, says a new report. Raised by a very strict and almost always absent father, Connor is rebelling against everything he's been taught, including his father's religion, Scientology. Back when he was still married to Nicole Kidman, Tom and Nic... |
14 November 2011
03:24 GMT |
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Actress Kelly Preston and her son Ben are gracing the cover of the latest issue of Health magazine. In the accompanying interview, Preston talks, among other things, about the 2009 death of her son Jett and how Scientology has helped her cope with the grief. Kelly and husband of many years John Travolta have always b... |
18 August 2011
09:27 GMT |
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Her father is a Scientologist and she once said she wouldn’t mind if her children also embraced the religion at some point. A new report suggests it was Jennifer Lopez’s connection to the Church of Scientology that ruined her marriage to Marc Anthony.Though various other reports in the press claim that th... |
16 August 2011
07:28 GMT |
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Placido Domingo Jr. is the latest celebrity to leave Scientology and use whatever media platform available to them to take a stand against the cult. In a brand new interview, the singer and songwriter speaks out on how Scientology is trying to intimidate and ultimately silence him. Speaking with The Village Voice Blo... |
12 July 2011
06:36 GMT |
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The Church of Scientology is often maligned in the press because of their beliefs and the often questionable ways in which they do business. Nevertheless, John Travolta and Kelly Preston say they owe their marriage to it. The two actors, outspoken Scientologists who have often publicly praised the advantages of being... |
22 June 2011
05:29 GMT |
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The Cannes Film Festival is the place to go if you have a movie to promote. Apparently, the Cannes Film Festival is also the place to go if you want to spread the word on a more or less actual religion: Scientology is recruiting in France. Jo Piazza of PopEater is in Cannes for the festival and, among other things, s... |
20 May 2011
10:48 GMT |
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The other day, actress Katie Holmes was photographed out shopping, sporting what looked like a baby bump. She is, in fact, pregnant with her second child, OK! Magazine claims in its latest print issue. As the photo attached to this article confirms, OK! is going out there with the bold claim that Holmes and husband T... |
12 May 2011
12:12 GMT |
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Assuming everything goes well with her trial, Lindsay Lohan will reboot her acting career with a part in “Gotti: Three Generations,” opposite John Travolta and Kelly Preston. One thing that will not happen, though, will be her conversion to Scientology.
Even before Lindsay was confirmed for the part, ... |
9 May 2011
08:00 GMT |
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A short while ago, Star claimed that Katie Holmes was addicted to Scientology treatments and unnamed drugs, and this was the reason she couldn’t leave husband Tom Cruise. Star is now apologizing for saying those things.
Of course, this wouldn’t have happened if Katie didn’t sue the magazine for ... |
28 April 2011
05:50 GMT |
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Joaquin Phoenix hasn’t worked in quite some time. In fact, judging by what came out in the press, he’s been on a break since he came out with the faux-documentary “I’m Still Here.” Fans should be happy to know he’s preparing for a new project.Variety reports that there’s a ne... |
13 April 2011
09:48 GMT |
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Kirstie Alley and partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy are working hard for the premiere of the new season of ABC’s Dancing With the Stars, but a new report suggest that Kirstie is determined they do a bit more than dancing. The actress is a well-known member of the Church of Scientology and, according to a new report i... |
11 March 2011
09:37 GMT |
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A short while ago, a lengthy piece in The New Yorker on Scientology, based on the first-hand experience of former member Paul Haggis, came out. The cult has always prompted mixed reactions from the audience but now, the exposure it’s getting is putting a strain on the marriage of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.
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19 February 2011
05:17 GMT |
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The Church of Scientology is turning its members, many of them well off people, into slaves. This may sound like something Anonymous would say, but, this time, it’s FBI’s stance on the way the group deals with its members, it has emerged.
As we also noted earlier today, famous director and screenwrite... |
9 February 2011
05:31 GMT |
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Screenwriter and director Paul Haggis is coming out with his story about his experience with the Church of Scientology, or Sea Org. Among other things, in a very lengthy interview with The New Yorker, Haggis also reveals Josh Brolin’s brush with the cult. The actor, it would seem, came to Scientology at a time ... |
9 February 2011
04:48 GMT |
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Many players, that went to Dead Space 2 and experienced the enhanced lore information linked to the Unitology religion that the action is centered around, were left wondering whether the developers took inspiration from real world belief systems that end their name in the “ology” suffix, with the closest ... |
3 February 2011
15:01 GMT |
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Last Sunday, at the Golden Globes 2011, host Ricky Gervais made a veiled joke about leading Scientology figures John Travolta and Tom Cruise. The former has responded to said joke the other night, TMZ reports.
Gervais tied the joke to the recently released film “I Love You Philip Morris,” starring Jim... |
24 January 2011
04:49 GMT |
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That Katie Holmes agreed to give Scientology a try when she married Tom Cruise is no longer a secret. However, the extent of her involvement with the cult remains unknown – but word has it she’s addicted to the “treatments” she’s subjected to on a regular basis.Star magazine spoke to a f... |
21 January 2011
11:41 GMT |
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John Travolta and Kelly Preston welcomed son Benjamin into the world in November last year. In the first interview since birth, with The Today Show, Kelly speaks about why Ben is their “little miracle” and the wonders of the so-called silent birth. As it must be widely known, both John and Kelly are Scien... |
20 January 2011
11:29 GMT |
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Earlier this week, as rumors were beginning to spread in the media that Kelly Preston and John Travolta might be expecting their third child, the power couple issued a statement confirming that, indeed, Preston was pregnant. This has contributed to their belief that, as the Church of Scientology teaches, every time s... |
22 May 2010
06:14 GMT |
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About a week or so ago, shortly after “Fat Actress” star Kirstie Alley announced that she would be launching a weight loss program made of several other products, speculation began to circulate that the newly set up company might be nothing but a front for the Church of Scientology. The star denied the cl... |
20 March 2010
10:31 GMT |
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Shortly after announcing that she was coming out with a line of weight loss products called Organic Liaison, Kirstie Alley came under serious fire online for setting up the company as a Scientology front. The evidence was all there, whoever wanted to know more only simply to look for it, the Anonymous group said. Put... |
17 March 2010
12:01 GMT |
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Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, who have the 3-year-old baby girl Suri, are preparing for another child, with the former “Dawson’s Creek” star receiving intense auditing from Scientology. In light of Holmes spending increasingly more time at the Scientology center, the logical conclusion can only be th... |
2 March 2010
09:09 GMT |
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The other day, “Fat Actress” Kirstie Alley announced that, finally, she was able to come out with her own weight loss product, as she had announced she would a few years back. It’s a well-known fact that the star, once a Jenny Craig spokesperson, wanted to come out with her own solution to tackle th... |
28 February 2010
04:42 GMT |
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Celebrities have all joined forces to do their bit for the victims in Haiti, either donating money to several charitable organizations working in the area or taking part in last week’s telethon that managed to raise almost $58 million within 24 hours. John Travolta belongs to the former category, the actor flyi... |
27 January 2010
03:03 GMT |
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Tom Cruise is arguably the Scientologist with the highest profile, which is why he’s also being used as an example for the entire community, that is, all the other members of the cult, a former Scientologist tells Radar Online. Marc Headley left the cult about five years ago and now, in a book called “Blo... |
8 November 2009
03:50 GMT |
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In what is the first move on behalf of Wikipedia against such a large group of users, members of the Church of Scientology have been banned from the site following the notification that users had been editing articles to serve their own interest. In order to continue promoting and further encourage objectivity, the s... |
29 May 2009
11:37 GMT |
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While religious beliefs should, ideally, have nothing to do with the public’s appreciation of one artist or another, in practice, it has often been shown that this is not the case. The same goes for Tom Cruise too, who, until not long ago, was harshly criticized and lost in terms of popularity because of his ma... |
28 January 2009
09:28 GMT |
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Just a few days ago, it seemed that Scientology celebrity members had finally understood that being a public figure and a promoter of the cult don’t mix all that well, when, on the red carpet, Tom Cruise agreed to sign the mask of an Anonymous member from the organization that is on a self-imposed mission to re... |
27 January 2009
07:03 GMT |
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As the whole Scientology debate continues to be just as strong as ever, with both sides bringing powerful arguments, one of its most prominent figures is also doing his best to keep talk about the cult in the spotlight. Tom Cruise, follower of Scientology, said that it was one of the techniques the Church uses that h... |
6 January 2009
06:49 GMT |
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As his latest film “Valkyrie” is winning over critics, contrary to initial expectations, it seems that actor Tom Cruise is having a rough time from opponents of Scientology. Because of Tom’s portrayal of a Nazi officer in his latest flick, but also due to his religious beliefs, several groups have t... |
30 December 2008
14:31 GMT |
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Dmitriy Guzner, 18, from Verona, New Jersey, has been charged for launching DDoS attacks that crippled websites belonging to the Church of Scientology in January 2008. His actions were part of a much larger campaign against Scientology launched in January by a group calling themselves Anonymous. Guzner has agreed to ... |
20 October 2008
04:33 GMT |
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A few days ago, rumors were flying high about a possible rift between controversial actor Tom Cruise and his wife Katie Holmes on the one side, and their seemingly good pals David and Victoria Beckham. It was claimed that Cruise is worried that his wife might be setting too much store on the opinions and lifestyle of... |
18 April 2008
05:53 GMT |
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Tom Cruise and his wife Katie Holmes - dubbed TomKat by celebrity media all around the world - have that kind of relation that is bound to make the headlines pretty much every other day. The movie star turned Scientology poster boy and his beautiful, sophisticated yet sometimes robotic-looking wife are among Hollywoo... |
17 April 2008
09:30 GMT |
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Scientology is presumably one of the planet's most controversial cults, and over the past months, its glamorous facade came under heavy attack from both the outside and high-profile former members of the organization, who spoke out against the self-proclaimed church's alleged abuses. The latest such example... |
16 April 2008
08:53 GMT |
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Victoria Beckham came to America set to take everyone by storm - however, things don't seem to be working out so well for the annoyingly glum ultra-thin wife of soccer star David Beckham. The former Spice Girl worked hard to build up her trademark look, combining the waspish figure, the oversize glasses and the ... |
15 April 2008
06:27 GMT |
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Jennifer Lopez has just ensured that no one in Hollywood will ever take her seriously - either as an artist or as a mother. The Latino singer has asked none other than Scientology fanatic Tom Cruise to be godfather to her newborn twins, son Max and daughter Emme, and Cruise was more than happy to accept the offer. Th... |
8 April 2008
06:05 GMT |
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Tom Cruise and his Scientology friends are not happy campers right about now, and for good reason. Tom's Scientology cult has just found out that a new strain of medical marijuana is currently being marketed as "Tom Cruise Purple" by licensed cannabis clubs in Northern California. The marijuana in question is so... |
4 April 2008
08:53 GMT |
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Katie Holmes' life has come under intense scrutiny ever since the "Dawson's Creek" alumn has married controversial actor and Scientology poster boy Tom Cruise. It hardly comes as a surprise, therefore, to learn that the once-lively Holmes (who seems to have undergone a profound transformation aimed at makin... |
26 March 2008
11:14 GMT |
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I love a good Tom Cruise story now and again - and all the exposure Scientology has been getting lately guarantees that every now and then, someone will step forward and reveal a little more of the strange reality surrounding the cult's poster boy. This time it's not about the actor's daughter Suri bei... |
10 March 2008
11:04 GMT |
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Katie Holmes is really riding the celebrity wave at the moment - and how could she not be, since she's married to one of Hollywood's most controversial figures, actor and Scientologist Tom Cruise. Giver her husband's sometimes strange antics (such as the memorable couch jumping scene that took place du... |
25 February 2008
10:32 GMT |
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Man, I sure feel betrayed right about now. I mean, come on, Bart Simpson was one of my all-time favorite cartoon characters. He used to rank high up there with Manny from Ice Age and Sailor Moon (for the non-connoisseurs, that's a Japanese Anime cartoon character that saves the world dressed in a short skirt). I... |
31 January 2008
11:25 GMT |
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Yesterday, Philipp Lenssen drew people's attention to the Googlebombs still ticking, like the search for "dangerous cult" redirecting to Scientology.org. Today he's returned with some further insight on the way things work with the algorithm that Google said to have put an end to the linking problem.If you&... |
31 January 2008
09:26 GMT |
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What would you do if one night you woke up to find yourself in the middle of a room, sitting on a chair, hooked to a strange, rudimentary-looking machine, not really sure if you are dreaming, re-living an "alien abduction" fantasy or simply being awake and not remembering how you got there? Well, and then what if som... |
19 January 2008
06:57 GMT |
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Man, Scientology is becoming quite the scary monster in the closet these days! Some say it's there, others say it's not... And for the record, the "closet" part was indeed a joke aimed at all the gay rumors that have plagued Scientology's poster-boy and chief mascot Tom Cruise for years, and were alway... |
14 January 2008
10:54 GMT |
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It's very funny to read about Katie Holmes praising her husband Tom Cruise and telling the world about how she manages to turn him on. I mean, yes, it may seem like a tough job for a lady (OK, that was mean - but what I wanted to say was that in fact Tom Cruise is a difficult man to please) but she claims to mak... |
14 December 2007
11:20 GMT |
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I have been wondering for some time now whether Will Smith and his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith were going to join the Scientology camp, at the warm recommendation of their close friend Tom Cruise. But it would seem that it's no joy for the ardent followers of what has grown to be regarded as a "bizarre sci-fi cult"... |
4 December 2007
09:03 GMT |
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This would be really funny if it weren't tragic. Apparently, someone really spooked the people at In Touch magazine - my money is on the Scientology fans, but I may be wrong - so badly, that they decided to clear up once and for all one of the biggest dilemmas of the past and present century: Tom Cruise's s... |
23 November 2007
03:02 GMT |
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Katie Holmes is one of the most media-hunted celebrities ever - no matter how hard she might try to hide her face from the paparazzi or to avoid going out of the house and into the paps-infested places, she still manages to hold all the headlines. For quite a while now, we've been hearing about how she is fed up... |
20 April 2007
09:00 GMT |
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