European Scientologists 2025 Civic Action and Relentless Social Impact in over 27 countries
Throughout 2025, reports published by Scientology Europe documented a broad range of community-focused initiatives carried out by Scientologists and Scientology-linked volunteer groups. Spanning dozens of localities across Western, Central, Eastern and Northern Europe, the year’s reporting highlights sustained engagement in public-interest priorities, including drug-prevention education, human-rights awareness, ethical and civic action, and volunteer-led community support, as well as selected global humanitarian developments followed by European audiences.
Scientology Europe 2025 Civic Impact
Year-end overview highlights dozens of local actions and public events across Europe, from Brussels and Vienna to Milan, Prague, and Geneva. These efforts connect long-running prevention, education, and volunteer programmes.
BRUSSELS, Belgium — 31 December 2025 — Across Europe, Church of Scientology civic actions maintain a strong and visible presence. More than 140 churches, missions, and affiliated groups operate in at least 27 European countries. Together, they support thousands of community-based social betterment initiatives.
Moreover, a central European hub in Brussels supports engagement with European institutions and international organisations. This 2025 year-in-review brings together initiatives reported throughout the year. It reflects a structured, values-driven commitment to strengthening communities, promoting human dignity, and encouraging civic responsibility through practical local action.
Throughout 2025, Scientology Europe published reports on a wide range of community initiatives. Scientologists and affiliated volunteer groups carried out these activities across Western, Central, Eastern, and Northern Europe. As a result, the reporting highlights consistent engagement in public-interest priorities. These include drug-prevention education, human-rights awareness, ethical action, and volunteer-led community support. In addition, selected global humanitarian developments followed by European audiences were also covered.
Educational and Humanitarian Framework
Many initiatives draw on long-established educational and humanitarian programmes supported by Scientologists. For example, the Truth About Drugs materials are distributed by the Foundation for a Drug-Free World. Similarly, Youth for Human Rights resources are based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
In addition, the Scientology Volunteer Ministers programme provides training and tools to address everyday and emergency challenges. Another key programme, The Way to Happiness, presents a non-religious moral code authored by L. Ron Hubbard. It offers a 21-precept guide used widely in community and civic settings.
Together, these programmes create a practical framework. Through this structure, local initiatives are organized, delivered, and sustained across Europe.
A Year Anchored in European Civic Life
The year began in Belgium with coverage of institutional milestones in Brussels. An anniversary event commemorated five decades of Scientology’s presence in the capital of Europe and fifteen years at Boulevard de Waterloo. The gathering brought together representatives from other faiths and civil society.
At the event, Ivan Arjona-Pelado, Scientology’s representative to European institutions and the United Nations, reflected on the organization’s history and public initiatives in Belgium. Meanwhile, early-year reporting also recognised volunteer work in Central Europe. It highlighted international awareness campaigns addressing human trafficking and a broader institutional overview of Scientology’s global activities entering 2025.
Together, these reports set the tone for a year focused on continuity, public engagement, and structured civic contribution.
Religious Freedom and Advocacy
As the year progressed, coverage reflected sustained engagement with religious freedom and human rights. Reports included Scientology’s participation in international discussions on freedom of belief. Additionally, new community facilities opening of new community facilities in Central Europe, designed to serve as local hubs, and advocacy initiatives addressing human rights in the field of mental health through the work of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights.
Advocacy initiatives also addressed human rights in mental health. These efforts were supported through the Citizens Commission on Human Rights. Furthermore, reporting highlighted long-term presence and charitable activities in several countries, including Sweden’s recognition milestone and community-facing engagement in Denmark. A commemorative feature marking the birthday of L. Ron Hubbard placed these activities within a broader humanitarian context.
Prevention and Education as Ongoing Priorities
Drug-prevention outreach and youth education remained consistent priorities throughout 2025. From spring onward, reports described grassroots initiatives involving young people, parents, and educators. From spring onward, reports described grassroots initiatives engaging young people, parents and educators, including local prevention outreach in Denmark,, while coordinated national efforts emerged in France.
Public-space outreach at cultural and sporting events complemented this work, including Brussels-based engagement at public festivals. The year concluded with further reports of street-level prevention initiatives in major European cities, including work in Vienna, illustrating how prevention education continued as an active priority through the final months of the year.
Civic Ethics and Volunteerism
Alongside prevention and education, visible community service remained a central feature of the year’s activities. Reports documented coordinated volunteer actions across multiple cities, including multi-city civic initiatives in the Czech Republic, addressing practical needs such as neighborhood improvement, environmental stewardship and community assistance.
Particular attention was given to initiatives led by Volunteer Ministers and groups distributing The Way to Happiness in public spaces, highlighting ethical guidance and civic responsibility as tools for strengthening public spaces and local cooperation. Activities in Southern and Central Europe, as well as cross-border efforts, illustrated how these initiatives were adapted to local contexts while remaining aligned with shared principles, including Swiss civic action and community events in Lugano.
Human-rights education and international dialogue
Human-rights education constituted a third pillar of the year’s reporting, with recurring references to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as an educational foundation.
Local events across Europe focused on bringing human-rights principles into schools, associations and community forums, including a continent-wide focus on UDHR education, while international coverage from Geneva connected grassroots education with broader institutional dialogue around Human Rights Day.
Related reporting also addressed freedom of belief and coexistence, including recognition of voices for religious freedom, as well as public reflections on the role of belief in contemporary European societies, including commentary on Pope Leo XIV’s October prayer.
Community life, interfaith moments and international perspectives
Beyond structured programmes, 2025 coverage reflected the everyday community life of Scientologists across Europe. Reports highlighted interfaith greetings and cultural celebrations, seasonal events, national anniversaries and local ceremonies, including a Spain-focused milestone marking 45 years of Scientology’s presence, illustrating how community engagement extended beyond formal initiatives.
Additional features introduced European audiences to international humanitarian stories and media profiles, including Isabelle Vladoiu’s human-rights profile, Voices for Humanity with Catalina Maldonado, a literacy campaign featured on Voices for Humanity, and a Netherlands-based foundation training youth on media and human rights, underscoring the global dimension of the movement’s social outreach.
Community Trust Through Action
In a statement prepared for this year-end overview, Ivan Arjona-Pelado, Scientology’s representative to the European Union, the OSCE, the Council of Europe and the United Nations, said:
“Across Europe, trust in our communities is built through practical responsibility—helping neighbours, maintaining dignified public spaces, sharing factual prevention education, and ensuring young people understand their rights. These are civic values Europeans recognise, and they are strengthened when citizens act consistently and locally.”
Taken together, the actions documented throughout 2025 demonstrate a clear and continuous contribution by European Scientologists and Scientology-linked volunteers to public-interest priorities, including prevention, education, human rights and community resilience. Rooted in the humanitarian principles articulated by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard and aligned with European values of responsibility and solidarity, these initiatives reflect a sustained commitment to strengthening social cohesion, safeguarding human dignity and supporting constructive civic engagement across the continent.
Scientology’s Presence in Europe
The Church of Scientology, its churches, missions, groups and members are present throughout the European continent. Scientology is a contemporary religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard, and its members support a range of community initiatives focused on education, prevention and community betterment. Scientology’s European public-affairs work includes engagement with civil society, international organisations and public institutions, and its recognition as a charitable and bona fide religion continues to grow in a number of jurisdictions.
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