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 ...

Dec 28, 2024 · Reagan, for example, was expecting to stay for 72 hours but was stuck in Options for eight days. She says she never saw a psychiatrist. Instead, the staff actually made her clean up after a patient who left diarrhea on the wall, the toilet and the door.

Dec 21, 2024 · Shereef Elnahal, Under Secretary for Health at the Department of Veterans Affairs, has a history of financial ties to a pharmaceutical company deeply involved in Ecstasy research. No wonder he keeps pushing for wider acceptance of the deadly drug.

Oct 27, 2024 · That is but a glimpse. Scientologists have partnered with community groups to operate a food bank in Melbourne, delivering some 500 meals each week to needy families and providing blankets, food and hot drinks to the homeless in Sydney—all while participating in community cleanups; distributing more than 3.4 million Truth About Drugs booklets; holding some 2,000 drug prevention events ...

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 ...

Oct 11, 2024 · It’s the first promising news of its kind in half a decade: the United States saw an estimated 107,453 drug overdose deaths in 2023, marking a 3 percent decrease from the loss of 111,029 lives in 2022, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.

Jan 15, 2025 · The hardest part is pretending you’re one of them. Going into a bar and posing as a “john”—a buyer of sex—is difficult for Sebastian (not his real name), but often necessary in his line of work, which is rescuing victims of trafficking and providing evidence to law enforcement to bring their enslavers to justice.. It’s not even his day job, but to Sebastian—himself a childhood ...

Nov 23, 2024 · The trafficking of human beings, a $236 billion-a-year industry, has long been perceived as a funnel for sex and slave labor.But like all fast-growing industries, the temptation to diversify was too great. Revealed in the INTERPOL-UNODC operation was that victims are also forced, often suffering physical and psychological abuse, to perpetrate fraud and other dark crimes on a grand scale.

Sep 26, 2024 · Located in the heart of Times Square, the beating pulse of the city, the Church has served the community for two generations. And now, New York Scientologists celebrate their Church’s 20th anniversary as an Ideal Organization. As Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard put it, “The Ideal Org would be an activity where people came to achieve freedom and where they had confidence they would ...

Oct 8, 2024 · The IAS also makes possible the world-renowned Scientology Volunteer Minister Program, which has brought emergency relief, comfort and hope at every major disaster site since 9/11 to a total of more than 10 million.To see the eyes of victims when they spot the yellow-shirted volunteers making their way with supplies and food is to see what hope looks like.