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Clearwater’s defining landmark for nearly 90 years, the Fort Harrison shines brighter than ever with glittering beauty and triumphant life. A full restoration by the Church in 2009 brought it to a lustrous state outshining even its inaugural day in 1926. The center of Scientology and community activities since 1975, the Fort Harrison now is joined with the new Flag Building across Fort ...

Dec 12, 2024 · Former US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) Chair Nury Turkel had much to celebrate on Thanksgiving. For the first time in over 20 years, he was reunited with his mother, Ayshem Mamut.Ms.

Feb 9, 2025 · China actually accused the US of “ensnaring Chinese nationals” and called for Wang and Chen’s immediate release, with Chinese embassy spokesman Liu Pengyu raging last month: “Such long-arm jurisdiction and bullyism that tramples on international law has further undermined the lawful rights and interests of relevant Chinese institutions and nationals and seriously undercut the ...

Oct 23, 2024 · For the first time in its proud 57-year history, the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) has been hammered with over a million requests in a single year—and boy, are government employees, agencies and systems overwhelmed.

Nov 30, 2024 · Global persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses is perpetrated in at least a dozen nations, according to a report released this November by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). The challenges to the community’s religious freedom have targeted and punished the group in ways ranging from the deprivation of rights to more harsh methods like imprisonment, heavy ...

Jan 6, 2025 · It is easy to get bogged down in statistics and swamped by numbers when reading the UN’s report, but we must keep in sight the human misery these figures represent—people chained to labor for their entire lives, unpaid, with no means of escape; women trapped in the hell of sexual slavery, forced to “service” an unending stream of brutalizing strangers; and children denied any chance at ...

Feb 2, 2025 · Of course, the pollsters are trying to explain where this happiness comes from—which part of religious faith contains the secret? Johnson thinks it may be focusing on others, as taught by most religions, while Brendan Case, associate director for research at Harvard’s Human Flourishing Program, says lifelong experience counts.

Jan 3, 2025 · The former boss and old buddies of child sex trafficking apologist Tony Ortega just got hit with a whopper of a fine. When their legal traumas began back in 2018, the publishing pimps of Backpage.com had their assets confiscated by the government.

Feb 6, 2025 · You’re waiting too long, and then it doesn’t go anywhere,” four-time Grammy Award-winning recording artist, performer, film composer, conductor, arranger and producer Stanley Clarke instructs the young drummer as they rehearse. “You just go ‘Brrr...’ like halfway, and then we’re in,” he says disapprovingly. “If you’re going …