FalunGong, also known as Falun Dafa, is an ancient spiritual practice with meditative exercises and moral teachings based on truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.
Ahead of the G-20 summit, practitioners of the spiritual discipline FalunGong gathered on Nov. 29 near the Sheraton Buenos Aires Hotel, where Chinese leader Xi Jinping was staying.
Every year around July 20, hundreds of Taiwanese FalunGong practitioners fly to Hong Kong to join an annual parade that peacefully protests the Chinese regime's ongoing persecution of FalunGong in mainland China.
Representatives of the major religious groups under persecution by the CCP—Tibetan Buddhists, Christians, FalunGong, and Uyghurs—will share what their communities face, both in China and in America.
When Sun was being detained, she tried to explain to the guards how FalunGong has benefited her, and sometimes shouted out defenses of Falun Gong's principles. As punishment for mentioning FalunGong, Sun was locked up in a small, darkened room.
FalunGong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a traditional Chinese spiritual discipline espousing the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.
Leeshai shares what led a former Israeli national baseball pitcher to a meditation practice called FalunGong, why he flew to Beijing in 2001 with 34 strangers from 12 countries to stage a 30-second protest, and what happened when Chinese police surrounded
The rally also heard from Garnett Genuis, MP for Sherwood Park-Fort Saskatchewan, and adherents of Falun Dafa (also called FalunGong) who experienced persecution in China.
First-hand CCP documents, obtained by the Falun Dafa Information Center in the United States, show that the repression of FalunGong practitioners around the world is an orchestrated campaign and top priority for CCP authorities.
-based website that tracks the persecution of FalunGong in China, Chinese lawyers have represented over 350 FalunGong adherents in court and argued for their innocence, since the beginning of the year to the end of October.
He also thanked a local FalunGong practitioner who told him about the persecution. Since 1999, the Chinese regime has consistently broadcast propaganda to defame FalunGong in an effort to turn public opinion against practitioners.
Yang Yuyong and nearly 20 other FalunGong practitioners in the Chinese port city of Tianjin were arrested and detained by local security forces last December.
FalunGong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline with meditation exercises and moral teachings based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. It was introduced to the public in China in 1992.
An abundance of photography and literature documents the extensive spread of FalunGong, also known as Falun Dafa.
On May 13, a quarter century to the date that Mr.
Liberal MP Judy Sgro, co-chair of Parliamentary Friends of FalunGong, speaks at a celebration on Parliament Hill marking the 25th anniversary of FalunGong, May 9, 2017.
FalunGong practitioners march in a parade in Flushing, New York, on April 23, 2017, to commemorate the 18th anniversary of the April 25th peaceful appeal of 10,000 FalunGong practitioners in Beijing.
Zhang Zanning, a law professor at Southeast University in Nanjing who has taken on FalunGong cases, told The Epoch Times that arresting FalunGong practitioners was against the law.
Drawing on official Chinese documents and data from Minghui, Freedom House estimates that there are between 7 million and 10 million FalunGong practitioners still active in China, while FalunGong sources suggest the figure is between 20 million and
Keith Rothfus (R-Pa.), who is well-acquainted with FalunGong practitioners in the Philadelphia area, admired FalunGong for practicing nonviolence throughout the persecution.
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