A quarterly roundup tracks Scientology-affiliated volunteers across Europe executing more than 40 community initiatives from October to December 2025, highlighting environmental cleanups, drug-prevention outreach, and human-rights education in countries such as the Czech Republic, Italy, France, Denmark, and Switzerland, with activities framed as secular, educational efforts to bolster civic participation and social cohesion. The report notes coordinated efforts by Volunteer Ministers and partner organizations, including public-space restoration, classroom and community workshops, and high-visibility campaigns tied to The Way to Happiness and UDHR education, designed to engage diverse communities and promote dignity, responsibility, and cross-sector collaboration.
European Community Initiatives Linked to Scientology Mark Final Quarter of 2025 with Cleanups, Drug-Prevention Outreach and Human-Rights Education
Roundup highlights local volunteer activity in Italy, France, Czech Republic, Denmark and Switzerland during October–December 2025.
BRUSSELS, Belgium — 17 December 2025 — During the last quarter of 2025, volunteer groups connected with the Church of Scientology and its long-running social betterment initiatives reported a range of community projects across Europe, spanning environmental cleanups, fact-based drug-prevention outreach, and human-rights education activities aimed at civic participation and social cohesion.
Community cleanups and practical civic service
In the Czech Republic, Volunteer Ministers associated with the Church of Scientology reported more than 40 community activities during October across Prague, Brno, Plzeň and Pelhřimov, combining public-space restoration with assistance to local charities. The reported effort included weekly volunteer teams and a larger-scale cleanup in Brno that, according to organisers, removed significant waste and restored neglected green areas; volunteers also described collecting and delivering clothing donations to a Catholic charity as part of practical cooperation on local needs.
In Turin, Italy, organisers described weekly Sunday cleanups around the former Dora railway station as a sustained neighbourhood initiative that expanded across several northern districts (including Borgo Vittoria and Barriera di Milano). The activity was coordinated by the civic association Procivicos and framed as combining environmental action with community values, referencing The Way to Happiness, a secular moral code written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.
Switzerland also featured in the quarter’s activity reports, including community-oriented initiatives linked to The Way to Happiness campaign and related local events where volunteers reported promoting civic responsibility and respectful conduct as part of everyday community improvement.
Drug-prevention education and local outreach
In France, Drug-Free World volunteers reported intensified outreach during October, describing engagement with parents, educators, shopkeepers, and health professionals across multiple regions. Reported activities included distributing more than a thousand educational booklets through local businesses in Brittany, wider outreach in western France (including engagement with pharmacists and municipal workers), and additional activity in Loire and Rhône-Alpes. Organisers also described major distribution efforts in Reims, along with outreach in Paris, Bordeaux, Agen, Toulouse, Nice, Belfort and Marseille, often using shopfront displays and street-level conversations to make prevention materials accessible to the public.
In Denmark, a youth-led outreach initiative reported engaging more than 500 shopkeepers in Copenhagen to display and distribute drug-education booklets, with volunteer teams described as ranging in age from 10 to 20. The same reporting linked these efforts to broader trends identified in a 2025 publication from the Danish Centre for Drug Research, which noted a decline in the share of 15–25-year-olds who have tried cannabis (from 44.0% in 2014 to 31.6% in 2025), alongside other reductions in reported substance use over time.
In Lugano, Switzerland, organisers also reported public-facing drug-prevention visibility linked to a major local running event during October, using the occasion to engage families and participants with educational messaging focused on prevention and informed choices.
Human-rights education and dialogue
In Milan, a human-rights gathering hosted at the Church of Scientology of Milan and organised by the association Diritti Umani e Tolleranza brought together community representatives—described as including members of Latin American and African communities in northern Italy—for training and dialogue around the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Organisers stated that participants completed a structured course based on the United for Human Rights education programme, intended for use in schools, youth settings and neighbourhood initiatives.
At the international level, Geneva’s Palais des Nations hosted the conference “Human Rights and Peace – Better Together,” promoted by Organizzazione per i Diritti Umani e la Tolleranza (an NGO reported as holding UN ECOSOC consultative status since 2017) and held around Human Rights Day. The programme highlighted the role of education and cross-sector cooperation in strengthening social inclusion and preventing discrimination, with sessions addressing freedom of thought, conscience and belief, and the practical application of human-rights instruments in public life.
Across Europe more broadly, Scientology-linked human-rights initiatives described ongoing dissemination of UDHR educational materials through partner programmes such as Youth for Human Rights, positioning human-rights literacy as a preventive tool against discrimination and social fragmentation.
Ivan Arjona-Pelado, the Church of Scientology’s representative to the EU, OSCE, Council of Europe and the United Nations, offered the following proposed comment for use with this quarterly overview:
“Europe’s values are strengthened when citizens choose practical responsibility—keeping public spaces clean, sharing factual prevention tools, and teaching the next generation that rights and dignity apply to everyone. Social cohesion grows through consistent, local action.”
Context: the social programmes behind the activities
The initiatives referenced in this quarterly roundup draw on long-running campaigns supported by Scientologists and partner associations, including: drug-prevention education (using “Truth About Drugs” materials), human-rights education based on the UDHR through United for Human Rights and Youth for Human Rights, Scientology Volunteer Ministers in natural disasters and community civics and ethics initiatives linked to The Way to Happiness. These programmes are presented by organisers as secular, educational tools used in public settings—schools, community groups and neighbourhood initiatives—alongside local volunteering and dialogue efforts.
The Church of Scientology, its missions, groups and members are present throughout the European continent, and its recognition as a charitable and bona fide religion continues to grow. Across Europe, Scientologists and associated civic partners take part in education, prevention and community-betterment efforts, including drug-prevention information, human-rights education, values and volunteer-led local service activities.
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