It is a well-known fact that he is an follower of the Scientology Religion and due to his affinity for Spain and the Spanish people, he participated in the official grand opening of the Church of Scientology Spain in Madrid.
This was also covered by beliefnet.com.
It has been stated publically by Tom Cruise, "Scientology helped me."
This is one of the things he stated in an article:
"When I was about 7, I had been labeled dyslexic," he told People magazine for its July 21 issue. "I'd try to concentrate on what I was reading, then I'd get to the end of the page and have very little memory of anything I'd read. I would go blank, feel anxious, nervous, bored, frustrated, dumb." After "Top Gun" came out in 1986, Cruise became a Scientologist and discovered the ``Study Technology'' the religion's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, developed in the 1960s. "I realized I could absolutely learn anything that I wanted to learn," Cruise said. Now the 41-year-old actor is a founding board member of the Hollywood Education and Literacy Project, a nonprofit group that uses Hubbard's teaching techniques in a secular setting. "I don't want people to go through what I went through," Cruise said. "I want kids to have the ability to read, to write, to understand what people are saying to them, to be able to solve life's problems."
He has also been an ambassador for the Church of Scientology International in other European countries.
I think his activities and what he has done to help others, definitely qualifies him for my Heroes blog.
