BRUSSELS, April 11, 2008 (AFP) - Belgian police have searched and sealed off the Church of Scientology's headquarters in Brussels as part of a fraud investigation, prosecutors said Friday.

'An investigation for forgery and fraud has been opened after the Brussels Regional Employment Office made us aware of new facts,' prosecutors' spokeswoman Lieve Pellens said.

ROME, March 1, 2008 (AFP) - A French former Scientologist who was rescued in January after several weeks of captivity in Sardinia will return home next week, a police spokesman said Saturday.

BERLIN, Feb 25, 2008 (AFP) - City authorities in Munich, southern Germany, have closed down a kindergarten with immediate effect after discovering it was run by the Church of Scientology, the municipality said on Monday.

PARIS, Jan 27, 2008 (AFP) - The author of a controversial new biography on celebrity Scientologist Tom Cruise has found an unexpected new ally: the niece of Scientology's current leader, David Miscavige.

BERLIN, Jan 27, 2008 (AFP) - Nearly half of Germans consider Hollywood film star Tom Cruise to be 'dangerous' due to his affiliation with the Church of Scientology, according to a poll published Sunday.

ROME, Jan 21, 2008 (AFP) - Three French members of the Church of Scientology, suspected of holding a fourth person against their will, were arrested Monday in Nuoro, Sardinia, a local police spokesman told AFP.

NEW YORK, Jan 15, 2008 (AFP) - An explosive and unauthorized biography of Hollywood star Tom Cruise hit US bookshelves Tuesday, despite an angry denial of the book's most startling allegations from The Church of Scientology.

BERLIN, Dec 7, 2007 (AFP) - The regional interior ministers of Germany's 16 states on Friday agreed to investigate the possibility of banning the Church of Scientology, the minister for the city-state of Berlin said.

MADRID, Nov 1, 2007 (AFP) - A court in Spain has ruled in favour of listing the controversial Church of Scientology among the nation's official register of religions, according to a decision obtained by AFP Thursday.

The administrative tribunal of Madrid's High Court ruled that a 2005 justice ministry decision to scrap the church from the register was 'against the law.'

MADRID, Nov 1, 2007 (AFP) - Spain's judiciary has ruled in favour of listing the controversial Church of Scientology among the country's official religions, according to a decision obtained by AFP Thursday.