News in the first six years of this new millennium can be characterized by its extremes.

The extremely bad dominates printed and electronic news resources and floods the airwaves with stories and images of war, fraud, human rights violations, spiraling inflation, famine and terrorism.

But at the same time, there has never been a period of greater expansion for the Church of Scientology, its religion and the application of its effective personal and social solutions to improve life for the individual and for society. Nor has there been more interest in Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard.

Hundreds of new Scientology missions and groups have opened this year around the world. Seven Scientology Volunteer Ministers Goodwill Tours are bringing effective solutions to thousands of people every day in towns and cities on five continents, while there are tens of thousands of people who are joining the ranks of the Scientology Volunteer Ministers, a group whose reputation for help is such that a bright yellow shirt is virtually a passport to go behind the lines in any disaster zone. New state-of-the-art print-on-demand facilities have just been put in place to make it possible to produce and distribute L. Ron Hubbard's works instantly, anywhere on earth. The Church has production facilities that set the standard for audio visual products, which churn out hundreds of thousands of CDs and DVDs of the films and taped lectures of L.Ron Hubbard. Meanwhile beautiful, new Scientology churches are being established in the heart of major cities, providing a center for our social betterment and community outreach programs.

And with an ever-increasing number of people — both Scientologists and non-Scientologists — wanting to stay in the know of what is occurring in Scientology, the Church of Scientology International has just launched a new Scientology Today web site, making it easy for anyone to subscribe and find out what is happening at any given moment.

The web site, at http://www.scientologytoday.org, is now constantly updated with information on Scientology's expansion, Scientology Volunteer Ministers, Scientology Missions, the social betterment activities the Church supports such as Narconon, Criminon, Applied Scholastics and The Way To Happiness Foundation, and the Church's human rights and anti-drug campaigns.

The Aims of Scientology are: A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights.

Visit http://www.scientologytoday.org and find out for yourself what Scientologists are doing every day to accomplishing these aims to better society.