Last year, those logging online to Drug Free World completed over one million course lessons – an average of 2,900 every day. From educators and drug-prevention specialists, to counselors and youth, people are looking for the real facts about drugs.
Thanks to the support of the IAS, The Truth About Drugs education materials are available online to anyone, anywhere at drugfreeworld.org.
On World Press Freedom Day:
The Importance of Responsible Coverage of Religion
With its purpose to help create a better understanding of the freedom of religion and belief and provide news on religious freedom and issues affecting this freedom around the world, the Scientology Religious Freedom website and its religious freedom blog promote responsible coverage of religion, religious beliefs and practices, and adherents.
Support the IAS and united we can fight for Religious Freedom for all!!
Standleague.org recently published an article about the importance of the 1st amendment in this country.
Soraya Deen is a lawyer, an interfaith consultant, founder of the Muslim Women Speakers Movement and author of the book “Peace Matters—Raising Peace Conscious Children.” Ms. Deen works to inspire people and communities to navigate conflict, promote dialogue, and unite across religious boundaries.
When you contribute to the IAS, you contribute to the preservation of religious freedom and give a voice to people such as Ms. Deen.
From its beginnings, the Church of Scientology has recognized that freedom of religion is a fundamental human right. In a world where conflicts are often traceable to intolerance of others’ religious beliefs and practices, the Church has, for more than 50 years, made the preservation of religious liberty an overriding concern.
Intensely religious teens are more likely to excel at academics than their less religious peers, research conducted by a sociologist of religion and education has found, providing the latest evidence that the religious upbringing of teenagers has a powerful influence on their academic success.
The new Religious Freedom Resource Center contains an extensive Case Library dating back to 1813, with every decision and amicus brief downloadable, along with a detailed Glossary of legal, First Amendment and religious freedom terms. STAND commissioned the Resource Center’s authors—First Amendment experts, among them graduates of Harvard Law School and attorneys who have successfully argued landmark cases before the Supreme Court—to render a crucial but sometimes esoteric subject in plain language.
Happy New Year!!! To all IAS Members furthering the Aims of Scientology.
Let’s continue to carry the torch of Freedom throughout 2022!!!
Please contact me with your goals for the IAS in 2022!!
Continue to support the IAS in getting out the Universal Declaration of Human Rights program in 18 languages across the world!
In the United States today we think of the right to religious freedom as a right protected by the First Amendment to our Constitution – a personal right, a guarantee against a certain type of government action affecting an individual.
But it is also more than that; it is a right of religious institutions.
Each year the month of October is recognized as National Depression and Mental Health Screening Month with the stated purposed to “bring awareness to the need for depression awareness and the need for accessible and affordable mental health screenings” and October 10th is recognized as World Mental Health Day.
However, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR), a watchdog organization that investigates and exposes abuse in the mental health industry, believes such observances are less about helping people and more about profit.
Thank you to all IAS Members for supporting the IAS Sponsored program – Truth about Drugs materials in 17 languages!
On International Overdose Awareness Day, the Scientology Network provides a full day of programming on solutions used to combat this crisis at the grassroots level around the world.
The Church of Scientology International invites parents, educators and civic and community leaders wishing to make a difference about the drug overdose crisis to see how leaders in the field of drug prevention are making an impact on this urgent issue.
Please continue to support this IAS so that we can continue to fight the global pandemic of drug and alcohol addiction.