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Gold Coast, Australia: Queensland’s Premier and Health Minister Meet  with Practitioners

Australia NewsAugust 21, 20170Comments

On August 1, Falun Dafa practitioners had the rare opportunity to meet in person with Queensland’s Premier and the Health Minister. Practitioners were invited to attend a Town Hall meeting in the Currumbin RSL Club on the Gold Coast, at which Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and members of her Cabinet addressed hundreds of local constituents about…

Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference Held in Brisbane, Australia

Australia NewsAugust 21, 20170Comments

Falun Gong practitioners from Queensland, Australia held a Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference in Brisbane on Sunday August 7, 2017. Thirteen speakers shared their stories of improving themselves in cultivation. Louise shared her experiences of telling the public about what Falun Dafa is about. She talked about how she overcame her fears and laziness, looked…

Sydney: Band Performance and Rally Raise Awareness of Falun Gong

Australia NewsAugust 21, 20170Comments

Passersby sat down to listen to the Tian Guo Marching Band play at City Hall Plaza in Parramatta at the start of a rally for Falun Gong on July 29, 2017 Falun Gong (also called Falun Dafa) practitioners shared their personal experiences and demonstrated and taught the exercise to those who were interested. John Deller,…

Australia: Annual Gold Coast Festival Welcomes the Serenity of Falun Dafa

Australia NewsAugust 6, 20170Comments

Many people enjoyed the peaceful and serene energy Falun Dafa practitioners brought to the Pacific Pines Winterfest on July 22, 2017. The Falun Dafa group has been invited to participate in this annual Gold Coast festival for the past five years. The event attracts thousands of people, some of whom come from as far as Brisbane…

Australia: Gold Coast Community Leaders Support Falun Dafa in Marking 18 Years of Persecution in China

Australia NewsAugust 6, 20170Comments

On July 21, 2017 Gold Coast community leaders joined in remembering the persecution that Falun Dafa practitioners have endured in China for the past 18 years. In order to draw attention to the persecution, Australian Falun Dafa practitioners set up an information booth, displayed banners, and collected petition signatures at Cavill Mall in Surfers Paradise, a…

Zhen Shan Ren International Art Exhibition in Adelaide, Australia

Australia NewsAugust 6, 20170Comments

The Art of Zhen Shan Ren (Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance) International Exhibition was held at the Hughes Gallery in Unley, Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, from June 30 to July 23, 2017. It was the second time the exhibition has traveled to Unley. Visitors were moved by the sensitive artworks depicting Falun Gong practitioners' unyielding…

Four Years After Her Death in Police Custody, Hunan Woman’s Son Granted Compensation

China News, World NewsAugust 6, 20170Comments

When 47-year-old Ms. Xu Chensheng went out in the morning on May 16, 2012, no one knew it would end up being the last day of her life. On May 18, her ex-husband Yang was notified by the police that Ms. Xu had died two days earlier. Her son Yang Xujun, a college student at…

New Zealand: Activities Mark 18 Years of Resistance to Persecution

World NewsAugust 6, 20170Comments

Wellington, known as the Windy City, had no wind on July 25, making it a pleasant sunny winter day for outdoor activities. Hundreds of Falun Gong practitioners from throughout the country gathered in Wellington for a series of events to usher in the 19th year of peaceful activities against the ongoing persecution in China. In…

Auckland, NZ: Human Rights Lawyer Calls for an End to the Persecution in China

World NewsJuly 31, 20170Comments

New Zealand practitioners gathered on Aotea Square in Auckland on July 20 and again on Central Square in Hamilton on July 21 to raise awareness of the 18-year-long persecution in China. Using posters and reenacting forced organ harvesting, they explained how practitioners are mistreated for their beliefs. Human Rights Lawyer: Your Efforts Will Make…

Voices of Falun Gong Heard Around Mexico

World NewsJuly 31, 20170Comments

Falun Gong practitioners across Mexico held events at the Chinese Embassy and consulates, universities, community centers, and public squares to raise awareness of the persecution of Falun Gong in China that has continued unabated for 18 years. Since the Chinese Communist Party launched its campaign against Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, practitioners have been…

Australia: Catholic Weekly Reports on China’s Forced Live Organ Harvesting from Imprisoned Falun Gong Practitioners

Australia NewsJuly 31, 20170Comments

Catholic Weekly of Australia carried an article online titled “China’s harvest of blood, built upon Falun Dafa prisoners of conscience” by Catherine Sheehan on July 19, 2017. Sheehan interviewed two Falun Gong practitioners, Eric Jia and his aunt Lorrita Liu, whose family suffer the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) brutal persecution. Jia worries most that his…

Falun Dafa Brings Harmony to My Family

InsightsJuly 31, 20170Comments

I became a Falun Dafa practitioner in 2003, when I was at a low point of my life. I had married a man who was eight years older than I in 1982. He had many debts, a low income, and smoked and drank a lot. Life was very stressful! When I was pregnant with our…