Ivan Arjona-Pelado
Born in Tarragona in 1980. Son of Manuel and Clara. Older brother of Clara, and husband of Laura. Author of "THE POWER OF THE WORD: A guide to the truth about Scientology". He grew up until he was 17 years old in a neighbourhood of Tarragona, called Bonavista, where he has very beautiful memories and where most of his family and many of his friends lived when he was a teenager. He attended the then Bonavista Public School from 1986 until 1994, when he graduated from the "Escolarizacion General Basica". From 1988 to 1992 he was a member of his school's athletics team, and for the last two years he was a member of the Club Gimnastic de Tarragona, a club with which he participated in many championships at provincial and regional level. He has also participated in school plays such as the play of Sant Jordi, narrator of Christmas stories and even, before his voice changed, a member of his school choir. From 1993 to 1994, he was the point guard and captain of the basketball team of the Bonavista Public School, where he was awarded as the top scorer of his team in the league, and in his last two years of Primary School (1993-94), he was one of the two representatives of the pupils in the School Council of the Bonavista Public School (Tarragona). He studied the BUP in two different institutes IB Camp Clar (Camp Clar, Tarragona) and the last year in the Institute Mila Fontanals (Barcelona). During his time at IB Camp Clar, he was a basketball player for the "Associacion Deportiva Torreforta (ADT Torreforta) where he played as a point guard/forward, an activity that he combined with that of football referee for the Tarragona Referees Association, refereeing matches from the frying category up to the 3rd Regional category as a main referee and up to the Preferential category (in Catalonia) as a line judge, an activity that he continued in 1997 in Barcelona.
He first became acquainted with the Scientology religion in 1997, when he quickly decided to dedicate his life to others, through achieving the goals of this religion born in the 50's. He met his first and only wife in 2005, whom he married the same year and is still happily married. He has participated in numerous events as a guest speaker, as a connoisseur of Religious Freedom and Human Rights, giving lectures at universities such as the Faculty of Law of the University Alcalá de Henares (in the Community of Madrid), the Faculty of Law of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Faculty of Law of the University of A Coruña (in the Master of the European Union), the University of Extremadura, the University of Castilla la Mancha, the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the Complutense University of Madrid, the Faculty of Law of the University of Seville, as well as to students of the European University of Madrid. He has also given conferences in which he has shared a table with professors who are experts in Religious Freedom, Criminal Law, Religious Leaders of various confessions, as well as with experts in Human Rights, and public officials at local, regional, national and international level. With leaders of the Black Community.
He has been recognised for the support given to the activities of the Black Community in Spain and claims for their rights as citizens, for which he has acted as Representative of the Fundación Vida-Grupo Ecológico Verde to the United Nations in Geneva and Vienna since summer 2016. He took the position of President for the first time when he was only 22 years old in 2002 until 2004, and after several assignments in Europe, he took the same position again in 2007, a position he still holds.
In 2015 he added the position of Trustee of the Foundation for the Improvement of Life, Culture and Society, of which he was the main driving force.
In January 2017 he is appointed as Director General of the Church of Scientology's European Office for Public Affairs and Human Rights, to the European Institutions in Brussels, Strasbourg, Vienna and Geneva. He is a member of: European Academy of Religion, Asociación por los Derechos Humanos y la Tolerancia - Asociacion España Libre de Drogas - El Camino a la Felicidad - Comisión Ciudadana de Derechos Humanos, he is a member of the UNESCO Association for Interreligious Dialogue, the European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom and the Plataforma Acción Social Unida.
He was designated as President of the NGO Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief for the United Nations Geneva in September 2024.
Phone: 609418539
Address: Madrid/Bruselas
He first became acquainted with the Scientology religion in 1997, when he quickly decided to dedicate his life to others, through achieving the goals of this religion born in the 50's. He met his first and only wife in 2005, whom he married the same year and is still happily married. He has participated in numerous events as a guest speaker, as a connoisseur of Religious Freedom and Human Rights, giving lectures at universities such as the Faculty of Law of the University Alcalá de Henares (in the Community of Madrid), the Faculty of Law of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the Faculty of Law of the University of A Coruña (in the Master of the European Union), the University of Extremadura, the University of Castilla la Mancha, the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the Complutense University of Madrid, the Faculty of Law of the University of Seville, as well as to students of the European University of Madrid. He has also given conferences in which he has shared a table with professors who are experts in Religious Freedom, Criminal Law, Religious Leaders of various confessions, as well as with experts in Human Rights, and public officials at local, regional, national and international level. With leaders of the Black Community.
He has been recognised for the support given to the activities of the Black Community in Spain and claims for their rights as citizens, for which he has acted as Representative of the Fundación Vida-Grupo Ecológico Verde to the United Nations in Geneva and Vienna since summer 2016. He took the position of President for the first time when he was only 22 years old in 2002 until 2004, and after several assignments in Europe, he took the same position again in 2007, a position he still holds.
In 2015 he added the position of Trustee of the Foundation for the Improvement of Life, Culture and Society, of which he was the main driving force.
In January 2017 he is appointed as Director General of the Church of Scientology's European Office for Public Affairs and Human Rights, to the European Institutions in Brussels, Strasbourg, Vienna and Geneva. He is a member of: European Academy of Religion, Asociación por los Derechos Humanos y la Tolerancia - Asociacion España Libre de Drogas - El Camino a la Felicidad - Comisión Ciudadana de Derechos Humanos, he is a member of the UNESCO Association for Interreligious Dialogue, the European Interreligious Forum for Religious Freedom and the Plataforma Acción Social Unida.
He was designated as President of the NGO Committee on Freedom of Religion or Belief for the United Nations Geneva in September 2024.
Phone: 609418539
Address: Madrid/Bruselas
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Cuando en 1950 L. Ronald Hubbard escribió: DIANÉTICA, El poder del Pensamiento sobre el Cuerpo, posiblemente no tuvo claro lo que se le venía encima. Poco tiempo después, en investigaciones sobre el método antes mencionado, consideró que debía dar un paso más y surgió Scientology, un pensamiento filosófico y religioso que ha bebido de las fuentes de su fundador, desarrollándose en el tiempo de forma exponencial. Porque si miles son sus detractores, millones son sus seguidores en todo el mundo, formando tan sólo una pequeña élite los conocidos y famosos.
Con una trayectoria desigual en todo el mundo, Scientology y su líder no han dejado indiferentes a nadie. Sin embargo, el estallido de las redes sociales ha ido permitiendo, muchas veces de manera orquestada y torticera, fábulas y comentarios sobre L. Ronald Hubbard y su Iglesia.
Gabriel Carrión, escritor y libre pensador humanista e Iván Arjona, miembro de Scientology se ponen, en EL PODER DE LA PALABRA, frente a frente para formular y contestar algunos de los interrogantes que se hace la sociedad mundial, con el fin de clarificar algunas de las cuestiones que forman parte del fabuloso mundo de las mentiras y las tergiversaciones dogmáticas que también existen.
Un libro imprescindible para conocer en profundidad los fundamentos y pilares de una religión, que por la cercanía de su fundador nos permite arrojar más luces que sombras a su historia.
Conference Presentations by Ivan Arjona-Pelado
“Hay muchos senderos al pie de la montaña, pero en la cima la luna se vislumbra igual”.
La ponencia versa sobre las definiciones actuales de palabras como religión, religiosos, movimiento, dentro de la interpretación que el Diccionario de la RAE le da a estas palabras, así como la interpretación de Naciones Unidas, Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos, Trubunal Supremo del Reino Unido y el Tribunal Constitucional de España; además aborda brevemente la historia de inscripción de Cienciología como religión en España y la posición jurídica en distintos países del mundo.
Papers by Ivan Arjona-Pelado
El artículo analiza el establecimiento histórico y jurídico de la Iglesia de Scientology en España desde la llegada de su fundador L. Ron Hubbard en la década de 1950. Se examinan hitos como la apertura de la primera iglesia en 1980, la inscripción como entidad religiosa en 2007 tras una batalla legal, y el reciente reconocimiento de su fundación por parte de la ONU. Asimismo, se examina la persistencia de discriminaciones legislativas hacia minorías religiosas en ámbitos como el fiscal y matrimonial, que contradicen principios constitucionales. Pese a estos desafíos, la historia de Scientology en España ejemplifica su progresiva aceptación social y arraigo, legi-timando su estatus religioso y labor en derechos humanos.
Abstract:
The article analyses the historical and legal establishment of the Church of Scientology in Spain since the arrival of its founder L. Ron Hubbard in the 1950s. It examines milestones such as the opening of the first church in 1980, the registration as a religious entity in 2007 after a legal battle, and the recent recognition of its foundation by the UN. It also criticises the persistence of legislative discrimination against religious minorities in areas such as taxation and marriage, which contradict constitutional principles. Despite these challenges, the history of Scientology in Spain exemplifies its progressive social acceptance and rootedness, legitimising its religious status and human rights work.
• Freedom of religion (art. 2, 18, 26)
• Right to privacy (art. 17)
• Non-discrimination and prohibition of advocacy of national, racial
or religious hatred (arts. 2, 3, 20 and 26).
Human rights are inalienable, belonging to every human being. However,
German authorities, violating the ICCPR, have and are promoting and condoning the practice of sect filters (or protective declarations as they call them) being directed against Scientologists as individual human beings, and not against the legal entities of the Church of Scientology in Germany.
Resumen: El autor analiza la reciente Sentencia del Tribunal Administrativo de Apelación del Estado de Baviera, de 16 de junio de 2021, por la que se declara contrario al derecho de libertad religiosa y al principio de igualdad y no discriminación ante la Ley, la denegación de una subvención administrativa, a un miembro de la Iglesia de Scientology, por el mero hecho de pertenecer a la misma. Se trata de un paso importante a favor del reconocimiento de la Iglesia de Scientology, en Alemania, y del pleno reconocimiento de la libertad de conciencia y la no discriminación por motivos religiosos.
Abstract: The author analyzes the recent Judgment of the Administrative Court of Appeal of the State of Bavaria, of June 16th, 2021, which declares contrary to the right of religious freedom and the principle of equality and non-discrimination before the Law, the denial of an administrative grant, to a member of the Church of Scientology, simply because of his membership. This is an important step towards the recognition of the Church of Scientology in Germany and the full recognition of the freedom of conscience and the principle of non-discrimination on religious grounds.
Talks by Ivan Arjona-Pelado
Read more at World Religion News: "My Thoughts on the Scientology Religious Order—the Sea Organization on its 50th Anniversary"
Leer más: https://www.europapress.es/comunicados/sociedad-00909/noticia-comunicado-expertos-hablan-colombia-sobra-libertad-religiosa-paz-20160921110744.html
Cuando en 1950 L. Ronald Hubbard escribió: DIANÉTICA, El poder del Pensamiento sobre el Cuerpo, posiblemente no tuvo claro lo que se le venía encima. Poco tiempo después, en investigaciones sobre el método antes mencionado, consideró que debía dar un paso más y surgió Scientology, un pensamiento filosófico y religioso que ha bebido de las fuentes de su fundador, desarrollándose en el tiempo de forma exponencial. Porque si miles son sus detractores, millones son sus seguidores en todo el mundo, formando tan sólo una pequeña élite los conocidos y famosos.
Con una trayectoria desigual en todo el mundo, Scientology y su líder no han dejado indiferentes a nadie. Sin embargo, el estallido de las redes sociales ha ido permitiendo, muchas veces de manera orquestada y torticera, fábulas y comentarios sobre L. Ronald Hubbard y su Iglesia.
Gabriel Carrión, escritor y libre pensador humanista e Iván Arjona, miembro de Scientology se ponen, en EL PODER DE LA PALABRA, frente a frente para formular y contestar algunos de los interrogantes que se hace la sociedad mundial, con el fin de clarificar algunas de las cuestiones que forman parte del fabuloso mundo de las mentiras y las tergiversaciones dogmáticas que también existen.
Un libro imprescindible para conocer en profundidad los fundamentos y pilares de una religión, que por la cercanía de su fundador nos permite arrojar más luces que sombras a su historia.
“Hay muchos senderos al pie de la montaña, pero en la cima la luna se vislumbra igual”.
La ponencia versa sobre las definiciones actuales de palabras como religión, religiosos, movimiento, dentro de la interpretación que el Diccionario de la RAE le da a estas palabras, así como la interpretación de Naciones Unidas, Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos, Trubunal Supremo del Reino Unido y el Tribunal Constitucional de España; además aborda brevemente la historia de inscripción de Cienciología como religión en España y la posición jurídica en distintos países del mundo.
El artículo analiza el establecimiento histórico y jurídico de la Iglesia de Scientology en España desde la llegada de su fundador L. Ron Hubbard en la década de 1950. Se examinan hitos como la apertura de la primera iglesia en 1980, la inscripción como entidad religiosa en 2007 tras una batalla legal, y el reciente reconocimiento de su fundación por parte de la ONU. Asimismo, se examina la persistencia de discriminaciones legislativas hacia minorías religiosas en ámbitos como el fiscal y matrimonial, que contradicen principios constitucionales. Pese a estos desafíos, la historia de Scientology en España ejemplifica su progresiva aceptación social y arraigo, legi-timando su estatus religioso y labor en derechos humanos.
Abstract:
The article analyses the historical and legal establishment of the Church of Scientology in Spain since the arrival of its founder L. Ron Hubbard in the 1950s. It examines milestones such as the opening of the first church in 1980, the registration as a religious entity in 2007 after a legal battle, and the recent recognition of its foundation by the UN. It also criticises the persistence of legislative discrimination against religious minorities in areas such as taxation and marriage, which contradict constitutional principles. Despite these challenges, the history of Scientology in Spain exemplifies its progressive social acceptance and rootedness, legitimising its religious status and human rights work.
• Freedom of religion (art. 2, 18, 26)
• Right to privacy (art. 17)
• Non-discrimination and prohibition of advocacy of national, racial
or religious hatred (arts. 2, 3, 20 and 26).
Human rights are inalienable, belonging to every human being. However,
German authorities, violating the ICCPR, have and are promoting and condoning the practice of sect filters (or protective declarations as they call them) being directed against Scientologists as individual human beings, and not against the legal entities of the Church of Scientology in Germany.
Resumen: El autor analiza la reciente Sentencia del Tribunal Administrativo de Apelación del Estado de Baviera, de 16 de junio de 2021, por la que se declara contrario al derecho de libertad religiosa y al principio de igualdad y no discriminación ante la Ley, la denegación de una subvención administrativa, a un miembro de la Iglesia de Scientology, por el mero hecho de pertenecer a la misma. Se trata de un paso importante a favor del reconocimiento de la Iglesia de Scientology, en Alemania, y del pleno reconocimiento de la libertad de conciencia y la no discriminación por motivos religiosos.
Abstract: The author analyzes the recent Judgment of the Administrative Court of Appeal of the State of Bavaria, of June 16th, 2021, which declares contrary to the right of religious freedom and the principle of equality and non-discrimination before the Law, the denial of an administrative grant, to a member of the Church of Scientology, simply because of his membership. This is an important step towards the recognition of the Church of Scientology in Germany and the full recognition of the freedom of conscience and the principle of non-discrimination on religious grounds.
Read more at World Religion News: "My Thoughts on the Scientology Religious Order—the Sea Organization on its 50th Anniversary"
La Iglesia de Scientology (CIENCIOLOGÍA)
SALÓN DE ACTOS DE LA FACULTAD DE
DERECHO DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA
ORGANIZA EL DEPARTAMENTO DE CIENCIAS JURÍDICAS
BÁSICAS (ÁREA DE DERECHO ECLESIÁSTICO DEL ESTADO)
Con la intervención de:
D. IVÁN ARJONA PELADO:
Presidente de la Iglesia de la Cienciología en España
Coordinación:
Rafael Valencia Candalija
Universidad de Sevilla