Scientology has emerged into the 21st century as the fastest growing religious movement on Earth.
With more than 11,000 churches, missions and groups around the world,
Scientology is expanding more rapidly today than at any time in its history.
Leading Scientology’s international congregation
is the ecclesiastical leader of the religion, Mr. David Miscavige.
Under his leadership, Scientology is accomplishing the aims and goals of its Founder, L. Ron Hubbard.
Over the last decade,
the Church of Scientology opened dozens of new churches in major cities across the globe.
These new churches, referred to as “Ideal Orgs,”
fulfill the ideal standard established by Scientology founder, L. Ron Hubbard.
To achieve this standard in Scientology churches the world over,
Mr. Miscavige saw to the establishment of the International Landlord office
and personally supervises the development of each new Ideal Org;
Overseeing building selection,
design,
space planning,
staff training
and all the myriad details that make a Scientology church ideal.
And ultimately signifying the completion of each new Ideal Org –
Mr. Miscavige opens its doors to the world.
In the last decade alone, more than 40 new ideal churches have opened across 6 continents.
These new ideal churches were established
with the aim of bringing the benefits of Dianetics and Scientology
to peoples of all nations and all languages.
Ideal Orgs provide parishioners with a place to receive such benefits
through Scientology religious services,
while serving as a point of coordination and outreach for church-sponsored programs
to help people in their community.
Many of the Ideal Org buildings are themselves historical monuments –
which the Church respectfully restores, by preserving and honoring the local heritage.
The latest new ideal church to be added is Sydney, Australia.
So significant is the opening of an Ideal Church of Scientology to its surrounding community
the events are attended by religious leaders, scholars, elected officials and local luminaries.
Moreover, as the leader of the international Scientology congregation,
Mr. Miscavige meets with local parishioners, and church staff and executives
to review future planning.
Ideal churches in cultural epicenters across the globe - drive one purpose –
to make Scientology available and accessible all over the world.
To facilitate rapid church expansion,
came the establishment of Scientology’s international Dissemination and Distribution Center.
Printing, manufacturing, and shipping materials needed to open and maintain Scientology churches,
the 185,000 square-foot facility in Los Angeles plays a central role in the religion’s rapid expansion.
The Dissemination Center equips every ideal church with custom-designed audio-visual systems
used in each location’s public information center and for hosting seminars and community meetings.
And its computerized custom mill is dedicated to producing all signature Ideal Org elements.
Here is state of the art, computer-aided fabrication
capable of equipping a new Ideal Org every ten days.
This is also where the uniforms for the church staff and executives are customized and delivered.
The Dissemination Center produces materials that keep Parishioners in over 160 nations informed,
and magazines in 18 languages to answer the public’s interest in Scientology.
It is also from here that the church is able to provide materials for the growing number of volunteers
engaged in the many humanitarian initiatives the Church sponsors around the world –
producing all the informational and educational materials
needed to support the Church’s humanitarian initiatives,
making them available to schools, civic groups, government,
law enforcement and private sector institutions in 18 languages.
These initiatives include the world’s largest
nongovernmental drug education and prevention program.
The Truth About Drugs campaign has distributed over 60 million drug awareness booklets in 188 nations;
the largest nongovernmental human rights initiative,
which has educated nearly a million people on their inalienable rights;
and a global campaign to foster morality reaching more than a hundred million people worldwide.
Spurring the Church’s global expansion –
the completion of a monumental project to catalog and certify the religion’s scripture,
a project spanning 3 decades and involving millions of hours of work –
and coordinated by Mr. Miscavige, personally.
This was carried out under the banner of two projects:
First, Golden Age of Knowledge, completed in 2009,
capped more than 25 years of research, recovery, restoration and verification
of all manuscripts and recorded lectures from Scientology Founder L. Ron Hubbard.
Then, Golden Age of Tech Phase II,
another massive project directed by Church Founder, L. Ron Hubbard,
to ensure the standard application of all Scientology scriptural material.
And to provide this same technology across multiple borders,
it is now being made available in over 50 languages.
To meet the global demand, Mr. Miscavige also saw to the establishment of a wholly unique facility
building the world’s first fully digital publishing house
with cutting-edge book printing and binding technology,
CD manufacturing capability for the mass reproduction of recorded lectures,
quick and economical automated packaging
and all manufactured to answer the need for these materials in even the most remote lands.
The state of the art facility was conceived, built and operates with one purpose:
to disseminate the works of L. Ron Hubbard as broadly as possible.
The production of these materials,
representing more than 24 million words and some 2,500 recorded lectures
signified the monumental completion of projects directed by the Church’s Founder
to ensure the purity, availability and longevity of the religion into perpetuity.
Mr. Miscavige announced the accomplishment over the course of a three day religious convocation
to more than 10,000 Scientologists at Flag, Scientology’s spiritual headquarters,
igniting an unprecedented surge in expansion across the Scientology landscape.
To ensure the correct application of Scientology’s religious technology
in its ideal churches around the world,
Golden Age of Tech Phase II also entailed the largest training program in Scientology history.
At its completion, certificates were conferred on more than a thousand ecclesiastical staff,
coming from every Church of Scientology across 37 nations.
The historic weekend was crowned by the grand opening of the new Scientology Cathedral
signifying the culmination of a decade of extraordinary and unprecedented expansion.
The completion of the 377,000 square-foot Flag Building,
also marks a decade of planning, design and construction
under Mr. Miscavige’s supervision to carry out the Founder’s objective –
resulting in a place where L. Ron Hubbard’s vision
for a Spiritual Mecca for the Scientology religion has now been realized.
Today, at any given time, thousands of Scientologists from around the world
are advancing on the path to spiritual enlightenment at the new Flag Cathedral.
This is but a glimpse of Scientology today.
As the religion continues to grow and expand,
its churches service burgeoning communities of Scientologists around the world,
and introduce more and more people to Dianetics and Scientology every day.
Through sponsorship of human rights, drug awareness and social betterment programs,
Churches of Scientology also bring together and help, the people of the communities they serve,
fulfilling L. Ron Hubbard’s legacy
and representing the fastest-growing, most dynamic religious movement on Earth.