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		<title>High-profile defections, court fights pose more challenges for Church of Scientology</title>
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Defections, court fights test Scientology
The Church of Scientology is going through a difficult season.

Over the course of two days last week, a French court convicted the church of fraud and Oscar-winning filmmaker Paul Haggis&#8217; resignation from the church over a litany of concerns was aired publicly. On one hand, it was just another bad press [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paris court convicts Church of Scientology of fraud, fines it €400,000 but stops short of ban</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 10:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
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French fraud conviction for Church of Scientology

PARIS — A Paris court has convicted the Church of Scientology&#8217;s French branch of fraud and fined it euro400,000 ($600,000) but stopped short of a ban on the group that was sought by prosecutors.
The court on Tuesday convicted four of six leaders of the group of organized fraud for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Crash&#8217; director Paul Haggis quits Scientology over church&#8217;s gay rights stance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8216;Crash&#8217; director Paul Haggis quits Scientology

NEW YORK — &#8220;Crash&#8221; director Paul Haggis has severed his ties with the Church of Scientology, in part because of what he alleged as the organization&#8217;s stance against gay marriage.
Haggis wrote a letter addressed to Tommy Davis, the head of Scientology&#8217;s Celebrity Centre. In it, Haggis said he was disappointed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Court of Human Rights rules Russian ban on Scientologists illegal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[STRASBOURG, France — Russia&#8217;s ban on the Church of Scientology is illegal, the European Court of Human Rights said Thursday in a binding ruling.

The court said Russia cannot ban the Church of Scientology just because it has not been in the country for long and awarded each of the groups euro5,000 ($7,270) in damages. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Ex-Scientologist ordered evidence destroyed in death of woman under church care</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CLEARWATER, Fla. — A former high-ranking Scientology official who handled the case of a mentally ill member who died under church care ordered the destruction of incriminating evidence to cover up missteps, a newspaper reported Monday.

The ex-official and church defector, Marty Rathbun, had for years insisted the church did nothing wrong in handling the case [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report: Ex-Scientology executives say physical abuse was common among management</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:31:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CLEARWATER, Fla. — The leader of the Church of Scientology struck his subordinates numerous times and set an example for physical violence among the tightly controlled religion&#8217;s management team, four former high-ranking executives told a newspaper for a story published Sunday.

The executives who have since left the organization told The St. Petersburg Times that they [...]]]></description>
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