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John Sweeney and Marc Headley Visit Scientology’s Odd New Mexico Vault

On January 7, BBC reporter John Sweeney’s book about Scientology, The Church of Fear, hits bookstores, and he thought of a great way to promote it.

About a month ago, he flew to the US and joined former church member and Blown for Good author Marc Headley for a trip to the Trementina vault in New []

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Final Sunday Funnies of 2012: Scientology Targets the Rose Parade!

With our year in review finally over, we’re left with one last Sunday in 2012, and what would a Sunday be without Funnies?

Our tipsters have been terrific this year, and we’re still getting great stuff from them every day. So let’s send 2012 out in style by looking at the latest fundraising mailers that Scientology []

Scientology’s 2012 in Review: Parting Shots from a Year David Miscavige Won’t Soon Forget

Tiziano Lugli does his best Tom Cruise

And so we come to the end of this lengthy year in review, which no doubt has already gone on far too long for some readers.

If we’ve been longwinded, our excuse is that 2012 has been such an exceptional year for Scientology, and there were so many []

Belgium Prosecuting Scientology as a Criminal Organization [UPDATED]

Oh Belgium, how we love you

UPDATE: See more analysis from journalist Jonny Jacobsen after the jump. The latest: Jonny’s thoughts on the Belgian investigating magistrate, Michel Claise.

We sure picked a great day to go for a long hike.

Turns out, minutes after we left for our day-long stroll, we received an e-mail from []

Scientology’s 2012 in Review: The Master Goeth Before a Fall

We’re still looking back at this amazing year for Scientology watchers, refreshing your memory about what got our attention in 2012.

We hope you have plenty to say as we look back at the stories that mattered in the past twelve months…

As the fall began, we were enjoying all the speculation by reviewers about the Scientology []

Narconon Georgia Facing Closure: It Shouldn’t Have Taken a Death

Patrick Desmond

By now you’ve probably seen our update on today’s year-in-review piece, or perhaps you’ve heard the news another way: Atlanta’s local media is reporting that state regulators are beginning a process to revoke the license of Scientology’s drug rehab program there, the Narconon Georgia facility which is at the center of a []

Scientology’s 2012 in Review: Narconon Goes Into Withdrawal [UPDATED]

Stacy Dawn Murphy

Happy Boxing Day! We’re still looking back at this amazing year for Scientology watchers, refreshing your memory about what got our attention in 2012.

We hope you have plenty to say as we look back at the stories that mattered in the past twelve months…

One of the most surprising things about 2012 []

Scientology’s 2012 in Review: Eight Days that Shook the World

Merry Christmas! We’re still looking back at this amazing year for Scientology watchers, refreshing your memory about what got our attention in 2012.

We hope you have plenty to say as we look back at the stories that mattered in the past twelve months…

June 29, 2012 will be remembered as the day the news broke that []

Scientology’s 2012 in Review: Springtime for Miscavige

We’re looking back at this amazing year for Scientology watchers, and over the next several days we’re going to refresh your memory about what got our attention in 2012.

Of course, one of the things that made this year so memorable was the level of involvement of our commenting community, and we hope you have plenty []

Scientology’s 2012 in Review: Debbie Cook Makes Us Remember the Alamo

We’re looking back at this amazing year for Scientology watchers, and over the next several days we’re going to refresh your memory about what got our attention in 2012.

Of course, one of the things that made this year so memorable was the level of involvement of our commenting community, and we hope you have plenty []