Ruth Gledhill weblog: Scientology on the march
Friday, 12 January 2007

The Evening Standard's Jason Beattie is reporting tonight that the Labour Party has received thousands of pounds in donations from a charity linked to Scientology. The charity, the Association for Better Living and Education, based at the church's hq in Sussex, was given permission by the National Executive Committee to take a stall at the party's annual conference in Manchester. Stalls can cost up to £13,500. The stand was part of the religion's continuing attempts to promote its drug rehabilitation programme Narconon and its criminal rehab programme Criminon. The church recently opened a new centre in London where one exhibit on display claimed “the Holocaust was conceived andpropagated by psychiatry”. the rest

Scientology arrives in Berlin
BBC Online 12 January 2007
The Church of Scientology is opening a new centre in the German capital Berlin, amid a heated debate about its aims. Critics have accused the organisation of exploiting followers for money. video