Scientologists' plea to Kohl

BONN - The Church of Scientology yesterday asked the German Chancellor, Dr Helmut Kohl, in an open letter to abandon his "discriminatory…

BONN - The Church of Scientology yesterday asked the German Chancellor, Dr Helmut Kohl, in an open letter to abandon his "discriminatory policy of religious intolerance". Over the past few months, the German government has clamped down on the sect, which has some 30,000 followers in Germany.

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