http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:58:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25656/scientology-founders-tenets-drive-nationwide-title-clearing-company-under-fire-for-rapid-document-processing http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25656/scientology-founders-tenets-drive-nationwide-title-clearing-company-under-fire-for-rapid-document-processing#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2011 04:38:06 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25656 Church of Scientology to daylight reports about a controversial company operated on the management principles of the cult's founder, L. Ron Hubbard]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25656/scientology-founders-tenets-drive-nationwide-title-clearing-company-under-fire-for-rapid-document-processing/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24257/russia-bans-writings-by-scientology-founder-l-ron-hubbard http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24257/russia-bans-writings-by-scientology-founder-l-ron-hubbard#comments Thu, 22 Apr 2010 06:00:28 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24257 Russian prosecutors said Wednesday that dozens of texts and recordings by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard had been ruled "extremist" and would be banned in Russia.

The ruling was the latest blow to the Church of Scientology, an organisation that some countries treat as a legitimate faith but that others consider a cult designed to trick members out of large sums of money.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24257/russia-bans-writings-by-scientology-founder-l-ron-hubbard/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24027/scientology-cult-releases-l-ron-hubbard-lectures http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24027/scientology-cult-releases-l-ron-hubbard-lectures#comments Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:05:05 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24027 More than 1,000 unreleased recordings of lectures by L. Ron Hubbard and reams of corresponding writings have been unveiled in the culmination of a 25-year project to locate, restore and transcribe lost pieces of the Scientology founder's work.

Records show that the science fiction author made up many details of his own life.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24027/scientology-cult-releases-l-ron-hubbard-lectures/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23490/religion-news-blog-roundup-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23490/religion-news-blog-roundup-2#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 23:32:14 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23490 Today's Religion News Roundup brings you soothsayers, fortune tellers, astrologers, a 'vampire', and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.

With the flim-flam out of the way, there's also room for the Samaritan ("the smallest sect in the world"), China's whining about the Dalai Lama, and some religion/abortion issues. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23490/religion-news-blog-roundup-2/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22413/religion-news-roundup-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22413/religion-news-roundup-2#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:27:15 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=22413 We've managed to gather L. Ron Hubbard, Patty Hearst, Jimmy Hendrix and Jesus OneTouch on one page.

If you look closely you'll even see Walter Cronkite.

We'll tell you where the Virgin Mary is, give you today's religion number, and took a look at the books in your hotel room's nightstand.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22413/religion-news-roundup-2/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21731/l-ron-hubbard-and-the-blackfeet-indians http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21731/l-ron-hubbard-and-the-blackfeet-indians#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:48:06 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21731
Among the latest targets: the Blackfeet Indians. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21731/l-ron-hubbard-and-the-blackfeet-indians/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21713/will-smith-scientology-school-2 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21713/will-smith-scientology-school-2#comments Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:42:29 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=21713 Some teachers at Will Smith's New Village Academy in Calabasas are Scientologists, and instructional methods developed by the cult's founder will be used.

An official says Scientology will not be taught. But who believes a Scientologist? And what is the value of exposing kids to material based on the world of a charlatan?]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21713/will-smith-scientology-school-2/feed 0