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UK minor faces charges for calling Scientology ‘cult’ at protest
News media in the United Kingdom are reporting that a boy under the age of 18 was served with a court summons by City of London Police because he held a placard calling Scientology a “cult” at a peaceful protest on May 10. Human rights activists have criticized the decision to issue the 15-year-old... »
Wikimedia Foundation receives copyright infringement claim from Mormon Church
The Wikimedia Foundation has received a copyright infringement claim from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the Mormon Church. The infringement claim is in reference to a URL used as a source in a Wikinews article about Mormon Church documents leaked to the website Wikileaks, titled “Copy of handbook... »
US Dept. of Justice IP address blocked after ‘vandalism’ edits to Wikipedia
Wikinews has learned that a United States Department of Justice (DOJ) IP Address has been blocked on Wikipedia after making edits to an article which were considered “vandalism”. In two separate instances, the IP address from the DOJ removed information from the Wikipedia article about the organization Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting... »
YouTube accounts of Scientology critics suspended
Two well-known critics of Scientology have had their user accounts on the video sharing website YouTube suspended. The YouTube accounts of both Tory Christman and Mark Bunker were suspended this week. In an exclusive statement to Wikinews, YouTube explained why accounts are suspended, but did not specifically state why these particular accounts were suspended.... »
Authorities in Belgium raid Church of Scientology
According to reports, authorities in Belgium have seized documents, financial records and computer equipment form the local branch of the Church of Scientology and then sealed off the building. According to reports, the Church in Belgium is being investigated for extortion and fraud after posting false job openings in newspapers then attempting to get those... »
Church of Scientology warns Wikileaks over documents
Wikinews has learned that the Church of Scientology warned the documents-leaking site Wikileaks.org that they are in violation of United States copyright laws after they published several documents related to the Church. Wikileaks has no intention of complying, and states that in response, it intends to publish thousands of Scientology documents next week. In the... »
Banned Scientology parody film ‘The Profit’ appears on Web
Copies of The Profit, a 2001 film blocked from distribution in the United States due to a court injunction won by the Church of Scientology, appeared on the Internet Friday on peer-to-peer file-sharing websites and on the video sharing site YouTube. Directed by former film executive Peter N. Alexander, movie critics have characterized The Profit... »
Protesters arrested at anti-Scientology event in Atlanta
While protesting outside the Scientology Church of Georgia in Atlanta, two members of the group Anonymous were arrested by DeKalb County riot police while standing opposite the Church of Scientology-owned building. The two protesters, who earlier on participated in the delivery of a ‘global speech’ collaboratively written and read by members of Anonymous at protests... »
Darwin Ist Tot: Intelligent Design is Not Creationism
One man’s magic is another man’s science. Religious essayist Rev. Eric Strachan of the New Life Community Church in Ontario, Canada has published a short essay in The Daily Observer called “The Wonders of Intelligent Design.” Strachan writes: “There’s a difference in the things that God creates, and the stuff that men and women design, a... »
Rights groups: Forcing Wikileaks.org off line raises ’serious First Amendment concerns’
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have sided with Wikileaks.org and will defend them against a lawsuit with took the site off line in the United States. Wikileaks is a website dedicated to hosting leaked documents that are “anonymous, untraceable, uncensorable.” On February 18, 2008, a permanent court injunction... »
Public Christianity
Nowadays, in order to justify each and every sin under the sun, each and every assault upon the moral fiber of a community or a nation – one approach fits all – the ne’er-do-well need only say the magic word “privacy,” then sit back, relax and smile while his or her “high and holy”... »
Google’s Presidents Day Snubbery
ARTICLE SYNOPSIS: Since its founding, it’s been a tradition at Google to snub President’s Day. Follow this link to the original source: “Google Holiday Logos“ JBS.org COMMENTARY: Since their founding in 1999, the deciders in chief at Google.com have provided cute cartoons of their logo for such days as Earth Day, the 50th Anniversery of Sputnik and Yuri... »
Interview with anti-Scientology website creator Jeff Jacobsen
On Sunday, Wikinews interviewed creator of memorial site LisaMcPherson.org, former Lisa McPherson Trust employee and long time Scientology critic Jeff Jacobsen. LisaMcPherson.org is a memorial site created in 1997 containing information on her death and the resulting legal case against the Church of Scientology. Lisa McPherson died in 1995 while in the care of the Church... »
Producer of anti-Scientology website ‘XenuTV’ interviewed
Television producer and owner of the anti-Scientology website XenuTV.com, Mark Bunker, also known as Wise Beard Man, chatted online with Wikinews for nearly three hours. More than 120 people followed the interview live (many from Project Chanology), which makes this exclusive Wikinews interview our most attended IRC interview to date. Bunker started XenuTV in 1999... »
Iran wants “shocking” Koran film banned
Iran’s Minister of Justice Gholam-Hossein Elham has requested that Dutch politician Geert Wilders’ Qur’an film named Fitna should be prohibited by the Dutch government, Iranian press-agency IRNA reports. Elham wrote a letter to his Dutch colleague Ernst Hirsch Ballin stating that: “you can stop the process of this satanic and conspiracy movement based on... »
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