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For the Ong brothers, practising Scientology mainly involves listening to Hubbard's lectures or studying writings on Scientology at home.
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Yuen Sin
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SINGAPORE - In 1978, a Singapore couple flew to the United States in a panic. Their son, then aged 24, had embraced what he said is a new religion: Scientology.
Their concern was not without grounds. Media reports had cast Scientology as among a wave of cults that brainwashed and abused converts in the US and Western Europe.
