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Scientologists in Germany Highlight Community Work Through Volunteerism in different fields

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Scientologists in Germany carried out community initiatives in Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, Stuttgart and Bavaria, focusing on drug-prevention education, human-rights awareness, peacebuilding and volunteer service.

Brussels, Belgium, 29th May 2026 – Scientologists in Germany carried out a series of community-based social and constitutional initiatives in 2025 and 2026, with activities focused on drug prevention, human-rights education, peacebuilding and volunteer service. The work reflects a broader pattern of public outreach by Churches of Scientology, missions and volunteers in German cities including Hamburg, Munich, Berlin and Stuttgart.

The activities are part of international social betterment programmes supported by the Church of Scientology and inspired by its founder, L. Ron Hubbard. In Germany, they have taken the form of public information stands, open houses, educational events, interreligious discussions, volunteer assistance and the distribution of prevention materials in response to local and national concerns.

In Hamburg, volunteers connected with the Church of Scientology Hamburg held a public information stand at the end of February 2026 for the initiative “Sag Nein zu Drogen, Sag Ja zum Leben” – “Say No to Drugs, Say Yes to Life.” The volunteers distributed over a thousand drug-education booklets and recorded dozens of drug-free pledges. On 1 March, the church also held an open house presenting the work of Scientology Volunteer Ministers and recognising two Hamburg volunteers for their service in humanitarian programmes.

The activity took place against a serious public-health background. Federal figures for 2024 recorded 2,137 deaths in Germany as a result of illegal drug use. They also pointed to a 14 percent increase in drug-related deaths among people under 30, a rise in deaths involving synthetic opioids and new psychoactive substances, and growing concern over mixed consumption. In that context, the Hamburg initiative placed emphasis on prevention through accessible educational materials and direct contact with the public.

Hamburg was also the setting for two related human-rights and peace events in late 2025. On 19 September, the Church of Scientology Hamburg held an open house for the International Day of Peace. The programme focused on the connection between peace, human rights and civic education, with information on Youth for Human Rights and United for Human Rights. An evening discussion brought together representatives of different religious communities to exchange views on the contribution of faith communities to peace, respect and social cohesion.

On 12 December 2025, Hamburg Scientologists marked Human Rights Day with an open house and charity concert. The event presented the 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights through displays and short educational films. It also connected the theme of human dignity with Article 25 of the Declaration, which addresses the right to an adequate standard of living, including access to basic necessities. Donations collected through the concert were intended to support the construction of a well in Guinea-Bissau, linking human-rights education with practical humanitarian support.

Munich provides another local example of the same prevention work in Bavaria. Volunteers with the “Sag Nein zu Drogen, Sag Ja zum Leben” initiative carried out drug-prevention outreach in Munich, including information activity near Sendlinger Tor, and held a seminar on drug education. A further March activity focused on encouraging young people to live drug-free. Together with the Hamburg activities, the Munich examples show how the campaign has been carried out in different German cities.

The same prevention message was visible during the UEFA European Championship in Germany, held from 14 June to 14 July 2024. Volunteers from Scientology Churches and Missions across Germany and their partners reached football supporters and the wider public around championship locations. They distributed drug-education materials from Foundation for a Drug-Free World, set up stands and mobile exhibits, and encouraged people to learn more about the effects of commonly abused substances.

Human-rights education has also been part of Scientology social activity in Germany. In January 2024, the Church of Scientology Berlin marked the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with an art exhibition and poetry reading at its Public Information Centre on Otto-Suhr-Allee. The programme focused on freedom of expression and used paintings and poetry to present the language of human rights in a cultural setting.

Volunteer service has also been visible in moments of public need. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Scientology Volunteer Ministers in Germany distributed “Stay Well” booklets in cities including Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hanover, Stuttgart, Dusseldorf, Karlsruhe, Munich and Ulm, helping neighbours, local businesses and community spaces understand basic prevention measures. In Stuttgart, Volunteer Ministers handed out thousands of “Stay Well” booklets to businesses and residents and provided sanitisation assistance to a local mosque during the pandemic period.

In 2021, after severe flooding affected parts of Germany, Volunteer Ministers from the Church of Scientology Munich travelled to a community in the Bavarian Alps, coordinated with the fire brigade, cleaned homes, helped residents salvage belongings and delivered clothing, shoes and toys to a family that had lost nearly everything.

“These examples reflect the social value of steady, practical help,” said Ivan Arjona, representative of the Church of Scientology to the European Union, the OSCE, the Council of Europe and the United Nations. “Drug-prevention education, human-rights awareness and volunteer assistance are not abstract ideas. They are ways in which citizens contribute to dignity, responsibility and solidarity – values deeply rooted in Europe’s democratic and human-rights traditions.”

The campaigns supported by Scientologists in Germany are linked to international initiatives backed by the Church of Scientology. Foundation for a Drug-Free World provides drug-education materials used by volunteers in many countries. Youth for Human Rights and United for Human Rights promote public understanding of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The Scientology Volunteer Ministers programme, developed from the writings of L. Ron Hubbard, is based on the principle that individuals can be trained and organised to provide practical help in times of need.

For European observers, the German examples are significant because they show a religious community contributing to civic life through education and service in areas of shared public concern. The activities are local in form but broader in meaning: they touch on youth prevention, public understanding of rights, interreligious dialogue, emergency assistance and the place of minority communities within democratic society.

The Church of Scientology, its churches, missions, groups and members are present across the European continent. Scientology Europe reports a continent-wide presence through more than 140 churches, missions and affiliated groups in at least 27 European nations, alongside thousands of community-based social betterment and reform initiatives focused on education, prevention and neighbourhood-level support, inspired by the work of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard.

Within Europe’s diverse national frameworks for religion, the Church’s recognitions continue to expand, with administrative and judicial authorities in Spain, Portugal, Sweden, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Slovakia and others, as well as the European Court of Human Rights, having addressed and acknowledged Scientology communities as protected by the national and international provisions of Freedom of Religion or belief.

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Beyond Investment Returns: Families Are Measuring Wealth by Freedom, Continuity, and Legacy, According to Nour Private Wealth

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Nour Private Wealth (NPW) announces a growing shift in how ultra-high-net-worth families approach long-term wealth, with legacy planning, family governance, and intergenerational continuity taking a more prominent role alongside traditional financial considerations. The development reflects the increasing complexity of managing substantial family wealth across generations

Every generation defines wealth differently. For today’s ultra-high-net-worth families, the definition of wealth is evolving. Financial returns remain important, but they are no longer the primary lens through which families evaluate the success of their wealth plan. 

Increasingly, the questions that matter most are broader:

  • “Does this plan protect what we have built?”
  • “Does it reflect our values?”
  • “Will it serve our children, and their children, the way it serves us today?”

These are not simply philosophical questions. They have direct implications for estate planning, trust estate planning, family business succession, and the structural decisions that determine whether wealth endures across generations or diminishes within them.

The statistics underscore the stakes. Approximately 60 percent of family offices expect a leadership transition within the next decade. Only about 30 percent of family businesses survive to a second generation. Fewer than 10 percent reach a third. These outcomes are not inevitable, but avoiding them requires deliberate, coordinated planning that begins long before a transition is imminent.

“The families we work with rarely define success by returns alone,” says Elie Nour, Founder & CEO of Nour Private Wealth. “Their focus is on preserving opportunity, strengthening family governance, and ensuring the values that created their wealth continue to guide future generations. Our role is to help bring those priorities together within a coordinated long-term strategy.”  

For ultra-high-net-worth families committed to preserving wealth over generations, these realities require a broader perspective. Modern family office wealth management is no longer focused solely on portfolio performance. It brings together investment management, governance, succession planning, tax strategy, and legacy planning within a single, integrated framework designed to support the long-term interests of the family. 

NPW approaches this challenge by organizing planning around what clients genuinely value. For most UHNW families, that means freedom: the freedom to make life choices without financial constraint, and the confidence that their wealth will support the same opportunity for future generations.

Trust structures are a foundational tool in this work. A well-designed family trust preserves capital, governs the timing and conditions of wealth transfer, and protects beneficiaries from both external claims and internal conflict. 

Paired with tax strategies for high net worth individuals, including spousal rollovers, capital gains deferral, and strategic use of credit facilities, trusts allow families to transfer wealth efficiently while maintaining control over how and when assets are distributed. 

Credit solutions also play a meaningful role. Private banking specialists increasingly observe that UHNW families also use credit strategically as part of a broader estate and legacy planning strategy. Structured appropriately, borrowing can support initiatives such as life insurance funding, liquidity planning, and wealth transfer, transforming credit from a financing tool into a sophisticated component of long-term wealth stewardship.

Estate planning for ultra-high-net-worth families requires this level of precision. A standard will is insufficient. Multi-jurisdictional trust structures, corporate estate freezes, family holding companies, powers of attorney, and formal succession roadmaps are the tools through which complex estates are protected and transferred with minimal tax erosion and maximum continuity.

Key Considerations for Enduring Wealth 

  • Appointing trusted trustees and clearly defined powers of attorney ensures families maintain oversight even when principals cannot act directly.
  • Family charters and family councils create governance structures that preserve values alongside financial assets.
  • Studies consistently show that family offices with formal governance frameworks are more engaged in philanthropic planning, reflecting a commitment to purpose alongside prosperity.
  • Legacy financial planning that integrates charitable foundations with investment strategy allows families to ensure their wealth reflects their mission for generations to come.

The True Measure of Wealth Is What Endures 

NPW’s philosophy is built on the belief that wealth management for high net worth individuals is ultimately about enabling life, not simply preserving capital. The firm guides families through the full complexity of estate, trust, and succession planning so that financial assets become the foundation for enduring freedom, not a source of complexity or conflict.

That is the truest measure of a successful wealth plan, and it is the standard NPW holds itself to on behalf of every family it serves. 

Investment returns may build wealth, but freedom, continuity, and legacy are what ultimately define its success. 

About Nour Private Wealth

Nour Private Wealth (NPW) is a trade name of Nour Private Wealth Inc., a member of the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization (CIRO) and the Canadian Investor Protection Fund (CIPF). We provide private wealth management services, including multi-family office solutions, discretionary portfolio management, governance coordination, and integrated planning across public and private markets.

Disclaimer: Investment dealer services are provided by Nour Private Wealth, a CIRO dealer member. Investment fund management services are provided by Goodwood, an affiliated entity under common ownership with Nour Private Wealth. This news release is provided for information purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities. Any offer or solicitation will be made only pursuant to applicable offering documents and in accordance with applicable securities laws.

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Author Victoria Bolton Takes Her Scions of Legacy Universe to Washington with Political Thriller The Public Trust

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Book Two of the Scions of Legacy trilogy blends political intrigue, family legacy and multimedia storytelling as Bolton sets the stage for Pedigree in December.

United States, 17th Sep 2026 – Author Victoria Bolton releases Scions of Legacy: The Public Trust, the second book in her Scions of Legacy trilogy and the political centerpiece of a series that carries the world of Rude Boy USA into a new generation. The spin-off follows the adult children of the protagonists from the original Rude Boy USA trilogy as they succeed to complicated histories while building ambitions, relationships and identities of their own.

The Public Trust follows The Powers That Be, the first Scions of Legacy novel, which has already earned awards. Bolton hopes the second installment receives a similarly positive response, she wants readers to enjoy the story and to recognize that it is laying important groundwork for Pedigree, the trilogy’s concluding novel, expected in mid-December 2026.

Bolton has described The Public Trust as her “House of Cards moment.” A longtime follower of politics, she previously explored local political power in The Tide Is High, Book Three of the Rude Boy USA trilogy. With The Public Trust, she turns toward Washington and the people operating inside its institutions. Rather than framing the story as one political party against another, Bolton focuses on ambition, influence, private alliances and the distance that can exist between public appearances and what happens behind closed doors.

The novel is also part of Bolton’s increasingly multimedia approach to storytelling. She has released companion albums for both Rude Boy USA and Scions of Legacy, with “Will You Still,” “Government Is a Circus” and “Marble Floors and Broken Promises” serving as marquee songs connected to The Public Trust. Bolton says she writes the songs, creates the samples that establish the direction she wants, and then uses online tools to help complete the music.

She is also exploring book trailers and other visual storytelling, much of which she creates herself. Bolton estimates that she handles the majority of the creative material surrounding her book universe. She is comfortable experimenting with new platforms and figuring out how to translate ideas from the page into music and visuals.

For Bolton, the ability to build those extensions herself is also about authorship. She says she can defend what she puts into the world because the creative direction comes from her rather than relying entirely on someone else’s interpretation of her characters.

With The Public Trust, Bolton brings that philosophy to the middle chapter of Scions of Legacy – expanding a fictional world that began more than a decade ago while moving its next generation closer to the center of American political power. The story also points forward to Pedigree, where the threads of the trilogy are expected to come together.

Scions of Legacy: The Public Trust is available beginning September 17, 2026. Amazon:
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ABOUT VICTORIA BOLTON

Victoria Bolton is the author of the Rude Boy USA trilogy and its next-generation spin-off, Scions of Legacy. Her work blends crime, family legacy, power, relationships and political intrigue. In addition to writing her novels, Bolton develops companion music, visual material and book trailers that expand the worlds of her stories. Learn more at www.authorvictoriabolton.com and listen to her companion soundtracks on Spotify.

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Unlocking the Trillion-Token Era: B.AI’s Global Settlement Layer for the Agent Economy

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Positioned squarely between foundation models and AI agents, B.AI is integrating compute routing, decentralized settlement, and full-stack agent infrastructure to establish itself as an undoubted spearhead in AI infrastructure.

Singapore- Just five months after its launch, B.AI has already set a new industry record with a daily throughput of over 1.51 trillion tokens—a 71,500x-plus increase since inception.

B.AI achieved in just over 100 days what took OpenRouter, an early aggregation pioneer, roughly two years. Driven by the integration of settlement networks with core infrastructure, the exponential growth pulled off by B.AI highlights the viability of its full-stack commercial strategy while also demonstrating to the global market that the platform has risen to be the absolute leader in the next-generation AI infrastructure stack.

B.AI has secured its leadership thanks largely to its ability to capture and cater to the global demand for cost-effective, high-performance Chinese LLMs. While offering homegrown LLM products a critical gateway for international adoption, the platform has also gained a head start by positioning itself as a global compute distribution hub. B.AI’s ability to rise in this tailwind is rooted in its unique ecosystem design.

Co-incubated by TRON and YZi Labs, B.AI disrupts the market via a dual engine of settlement and distribution, plus its complete infrastructure for the emerging agent economy. The platform enables global access to top-tier LLM compute while equipping AI agents with native resource scheduling and execution capabilities—unlocking liquidity and value exchange across the global agent economy.

Unprecedented Infrastructure Growth: B.AI Builds Global Distribution Hub for LLMs

To reach 1.51 trillion tokens in its daily throughput, simply seizing the tailwind is far from enough. B.AI has also responded swiftly to two macro trends in the AI industry: the cost-performance advantage of leading Chinese LLMs and the surging demand for high-throughput, low-cost inference in the agentic era.

Over the past year, Chinese LLM developers like DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen, and GLM have matched top global benchmarks at a fraction of the API cost. This unbeatable cost efficiency makes adoption virtually inevitable for developers worldwide. 

As a global, next-generation infrastructure, B.AI aggregates top international models like GPT and Claude alongside rising Chinese LLMs. The platform has established close partnerships with Tencent, Alibaba, ByteDance, DeepSeek, Zhipu AI, Kimi, and MiniMax—all top LLM players in the Chinese market—to build a comprehensive model portfolio. This all-star model lineup has, in turn, made B.AI the default launchpad for Chinese LLMs seeking global expansion.

Chinese LLMs, including DeepSeek-V4-Flash, Qwen3.8-Flash, and GLM-5.3 Flash, have stood out as top-performing models on B.AI with the highest usage. Building on the momentum, B.AI continues to drive adoption through model discounts, limited-time free access, tiered API pricing (with discounts up to 90%), and developer incentives, aiming to convert model cost efficiencies into usable throughput for developers worldwide. The traction from this strategic positioning is clearly backed by the numbers: B.AI’s daily token throughput has breached 1.51 trillion—a massive 71,500x-plus surge since its first day upon launch.

Beyond its organic growth momentum, ecosystem partner YZi Labs serves as B.AI’s core distribution engine, continuously onboarding early-stage projects and developer communities. This ecosystem support enables B.AI to penetrate diverse real-world use cases, driving a steady influx of incremental traffic and commercial demand.

For foundation model providers, B.AI’s multi-trillion, high-concurrency architecture provides a fast track to high-value global workloads. Within this massive pool of demand, B.AI has evolved from a simple distribution channel into a primary facilitator—scaling the commercial reach of leading LLMs while reshaping the global AI landscape.

Beyond Aggregation and Routing: B.AI Builds Closed-Loop Infrastructure for the Agent Economy

Yet for this super amplifier to truly sustain a trillion-dollar agent economy, front-end compute routing is nowhere near enough. Building on the API aggregation foundation pioneered by early movers like OpenRouter, B.AI recognized a critical insight: fully unlocking massive agent collaboration requires a closed financial loop at the foundational layer. 

To achieve this, B.AI bridges models and agents, creating a global settlement layer for intelligence. This core differentiator transforms the platform from a simple traffic conduit into the central master ledger for the entire agent economy, ensuring every cross-region call and task allocation is seamlessly routed, precisely metered, and automatically settled. 

To achieve this vision, B.AI embeds settlement directly into the infrastructure layer, creating a dual-track Web2 and Web3 payment network. Built on Web3 principles, the architecture maintains backward compatibility with traditional Web2 payment systems. On the Web3 front, B.AI leverages on-chain settlement channels to provide global developers with decentralized, verifiable, and low-friction options that enable fully automated transactions and micropayments between agents. On the Web2 front, it preserves legacy gateways like WeChat Pay, Alipay, UnionPay, and Visa, ensuring effortless integration into existing enterprise workflows. Together, this dual-track model delivers a single integration point for frictionless global capital flow. 

At the heart of this global liquidity is B.AI’s deep integration with TRON. As the world’s largest stablecoin transfer network, TRON offers B.AI a native payment rail through its massive USDT ecosystem, built for maximum liquidity and minimal friction. As of September 10, total TRC-20 USDT supply surpassed 94.2 billion, continuing to set record highs. Backed by TRON’s battle-tested on-chain capacity, B.AI provides the essential infrastructure required to scale cross-border compute scheduling and high-frequency automated agent micro-transactions.

The true ambition of this architecture is to capture the emerging landscape of automated transactions in the agent economy ahead of the pack. The coming explosion in agent adoption will inevitably drive agent-to-agent (A2A) collaboration and autonomous commerce. Yet, fully unlocking this automated A2A synergy requires far more than just a foundational payment rail. B.AI builds beyond its Web3 smart settlement network by deploying a dedicated full-stack runtime environment for agents. This establishes an end-to-end, high-precision technical loop bridging compute scheduling, task execution, and financial settlement. 

At the scheduling layer, B.AI drives fine-grained compute allocation.  Its tiered API system fundamentally reshapes compute procurement logic, offering structured invocation plans that allow developers to match specific business demands with optimal compute resources. 

At the execution layer, B.AI constructs a native agent collaboration ecosystem.  It endows agents with direct operational capabilities to act across the digital world. Powered by embedded toolchains like Skills and Agent Wallet, alongside natively integrated AI assistants BAIclaw and BAI code, agents evolve into fully fledged digital workers capable of autonomous data acquisition and execution, laying a solid engineering foundation for multi-agent synergy. 

At the protocol layer, B.AI establishes foundational transaction standards for A2A commerce.  This marks B.AI’s most strategically profound move. By natively integrating the x402 payment protocol and the 8004 identity authentication protocol, the platform paves a standardized path for mutual trust, identity verification, and high-frequency automated settlement between agents. 

From fine-grained model scheduling to intelligent collaboration systems and standardized transaction protocols, this architecture seamlessly fuses perception, reasoning, action, and settlement. This holistic infrastructure propels B.AI into a central hub for the agent economy, engineered to handle micro-transactions and compute settlement at scale. Crossing into the trillion-token era is merely a new starting point for B.AI. As next-generation AI infrastructure, its core value extends beyond distributing intelligence to powering transactions. By establishing foundational standards for high-frequency A2A collaboration, B.AI is reshaping the global flow of compute value, driving AI infrastructure into a new era built explicitly for agents and machine intelligence. 

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