Absolutely. The Church is a strong advocate of the interfaith approach on issues important to all religions. Scientologists work with representatives of many religions to support and encourage interreligious dialogue, religious freedom and respect for religion in society.

The Church has been involved for many years in actions to protect religious liberty and is active in the American Conference on Religious Movements (ACRM). This multidenominational association of religious organizations is dedicated to the advancement of religious liberty and dialogue.

Scientologists worked with leaders of other religions to petition the US Congress to enact a Religious Freedom Week. The result was just such a designation in 1988. It has now become an annual national tradition.

The Church mustered interfaith support for a bill which severely limits punitive damages claims against religions. Many religious groups, including the National Council of Churches, joined the Church of Scientology in support of California Senate Bill No. 1, which was signed into law by the governor in September 1988.

The bill had arisen following a frivolous lawsuit filed against a Christian church. The Church of Scientology worked with more than 1,500 religious organizations to oppose the suit and make its ramifications known to other religions and the public. In 1989, the US Supreme Court endorsed a California Supreme Court decision which held that the state’s laws forbid the filing of such cases against churches.

The Church of Scientology International is an active member of the Coalition for the Free Exercise of Religion, a broad-based religious and civil liberties group that, in 1995, resolved the long and contentious debate over the role of religion in public schools. Through the united efforts of more than three dozen religious and civil liberties organizations, the coalition prepared “Religion in The Public Schools: A Joint Statement of Current Law,” which established a model for public policy that led to a final and amicable resolution of the issue. President Bill Clinton praised the joint statement as “wise and thoughtful.”

For more than a decade, the Church has exposed and defused assaults on religious freedom from organizations which support “deprogramming,” the violent practice of kidnappers who, for pay, try to break an individual’s faith through such tactics as forcible restraint, food or sleep deprivation, beatings and even rape.

Over the years, deprogrammers have attacked members of many different religions, including Baptists, Catholics, Episcopalians, Methodists, Mormons and Muslims. As a result of coordinated interfaith actions, deprogrammers have been arrested, convicted and jailed for their role in such illegal activities.