Over 6,500 attendees at a New Year event filled Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall for Scientology’s New Year 2026 celebration—an evening that paired live performances with a year-in-review presentation showcasing developments across the Church’s international network during 2025.
Not just a midnight celebration, the programme put the focus on the year’s most visible themes: growth in digital access and online courses, new facilities and planning for future openings, and the opening of sites linked to Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. It also highlighted religion drug prevention with Drug Free World, literacy and values-focused initiatives (TWTH) framed as community engagement in multiple regions.
For European readers, the story offers a clear window into how a global religious movement frames its year—and why developments in digital access, facilities and community programmes can be followed from Brussels to beyond.
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