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On November 23, 2015, a Moscow court ordered the dissolution of that city’s Church of Scientology on the grounds that it did not qualify as a religious organization due to a US trademark of the word Scientology. For a typical news story, Scientology Banned in Russia. A number of people sent us links to stories like this and asked us to comment on them. They were particularly interested in the ramifications of the rul

The Religious Liberty League can be viewed as the Department 20 for the “religion” of Scientology as opposed to the “church” or “churches” of Scientology. For those familiar with Scientology organizations, Department 20 of the Church of Scientology International is the Office of Special Affairs (OSA), which oversees the external affairs of the church, among them: Public Relations,

There is a difference between the “religion” of Scientology and the “church” of Scientology. LRH highlighted this distinction in his estate plan and created a safeguard in Church of Spiritual Technology (CST) in case the church drifted out of alignment with the religion of Scientology. Here is how he defined the terms: “‘Church of Scientology’ shall mean both those organizations and that group of or