2008-04-07

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 letter [...]

2008-03-23

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 as [...]

2008-03-16

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 worldwide, [...]

2008-03-02

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 world [...]

2008-02-28

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 issued [...]

2008-02-22

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� foes [...]

2008-02-19

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 Gagarin [...]

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 of [...]

2008-02-18

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 and [...]

2008-02-16

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 the [...]