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Jennifer Lopez to Get Human Rights Award
Associated Press 02.03.07, 8:40 AM ET

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Jennifer Lopez will receive an award for her work as producer and star of a film examining the murders of hundreds of women in a Mexican border town, Amnesty International officials said Friday.

Lopez will receive the Artists for Amnesty award Feb. 14 at the Berlin Film Festival from Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta. The film "Bordertown" will make its debut Feb. 15 at the festival.

In "Bordertown," Lopez plays an investigative journalist reporting on the serial killings of women in the border city of Juarez, Mexico. Directed by Gregory Nava, the film also stars Antonio Banderas and Martin Sheen.

"Since first hearing of these atrocities in 1998, when Gregory Nava came to me with this project, I desperately wanted to tell this story," Lopez said. "I began working to ensure we made this film in order to bring the attention of the world to this tragedy and to pressure the Mexican government to bring to justice those responsible for these horrible crimes."

Lopez, 36, screened the film for some of the mothers of women killed in Juarez and will receive special recognition from Norma Andrade, co-founder of Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa (Bring Our Daughters Home), an organization comprising mothers and families of the murdered women of Juarez.

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Jennifer Lopez' dad a Scientologist
By Stone Martindale Jan 28, 2007, 17:39 GMT

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Jennifer Lopez in fur coat - Madrid, Spain © Photorazzi


Perez Hilton has been alleging for awhile, and sightings of J Lo with Leah Remini, a Scientologist, furthered the rumor she was on her way to joining the spaceship cult.


"Alarms definitely started to ring when Jennifer Lopez became the latest member of TomKat's cult inner circle. You can't be Tom Cruise's friend without being a Scientologist...or at least being very exposed to the 'religion,' said Hilton on his blog.

Jennifer Lopez, fur loving fashionista, singer and actress may well be Scientology's next big tuna.

Talking to the media in Miami recently, J Lo talked about her fashion forward sense. "I just went for my own pleasure and what my husband likes," J.Lo told NBC 6's Jackie Nespral during an interview at the Mandarin Oriental in Miami on Thursday. "Of course I'm aware people will see it. As long as I feel good in it, that' s the most important thing."

Lopez also discussed the wedding of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.

"It was a great celebration of their love," she said. "It was good. It was beautiful."

When NBC 6 asked about what she thought about the negative perception some people have about Scientology, Lopez replied, "I, myself, am Catholic. But it's just sad that people would look at it (Scientology) in that way."

J.Lo also has a personal connection to the Church of Scientology.

"My dad has been a Scientologist for 20 years," she said. "It's weird people want to paint it in a negative way."