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Five Shen Yun Companies Deliver “Awe-Inspiring” Traditions to Five Cities

World NewsMarch 2, 20170Comments

Five Shen Yun Performing Arts touring companies performed in five cities in North America and Asia February 18 and 19, 2017: Minneapolis, Minnesota; Baltimore, Maryland; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Chicago, Illinois; and Taipei, Taiwan. Sold-out houses were common. The Merriam Theater in Philadelphia added two shows to the originally-scheduled ten performances due to the large demand. The…

Falun Dafa joins Chinese New Year celebrations on the Gold Coast, Queensland

Australia NewsFebruary 21, 20170Comments

Australian Falun Dafa practitioners have joined Chinese New Year festivities for the first time on the Gold Coast, Queensland. The Lunar New Year Celebrations held on February 4, 2017 is the tourist city’s biggest Chinese New Year celebration, attracting as many as 15,000 visitors. Many people were drawn to the Dafa stall by the continuous exercise demonstrations,…

Practitioners Hang Falun Gong Posters and Banners in Shijiazhuang for Lantern Festival

China NewsFebruary 21, 20170Comments

It was sunny in Shijiazhuang for the Lantern Festival on February 11 and 12, 2017. Several Falun Gong practitioners helped each other to put up more than 100 banners and posters on the city’s main streets, fences, and trees. The banners and posters remind people that Falun Gong is good, that the Chinese Communist Party…

Italy: Forced Organ Harvesting in China Draws Criticism at Organ Trafficking Summit

Uncategorized, World NewsFebruary 21, 20170Comments

“Right now, without free and independent inspection, there is no evidence that China has actually put an end to the cruel and illegal practice of forced organ harvesting, particularly from Falun Gong practitioners, and also Christians and other prisoners of conscience,” stated Italian Senator Maurizio Romani, vice president of the Health Commission during a press conference…

Posters in Public Places Across China Raise Awareness of the Persecution of Falun Gong

China NewsFebruary 21, 20170Comments

Over the Chinese New Year season, many banners and posters were put up to inform people of the ongoing suppression against innocent practitioners. Below are but a few of them. After nearly 18 years of suppression in China, a large number of Falun Dafa practitioners continue to be persecuted for their beliefs. To inform the…

Falun Gong Practitioners Celebrate Lantern Festival with Communities in New York City

UncategorizedFebruary 16, 20170Comments

February 11 is the Lantern Festival, a well-celebrated occasion that marks the end of the Chinese New Year season. Falun Gong practitioners participated in the celebration at Sara Delano Roosevelt Park near Chinatown in New York City. Led by dragon and lion dances, these performances immediately draw a big crowd of young and old alike. The…

Raising Awareness at New Zealand’s Waitangi Day Celebrations

World NewsFebruary 16, 20170Comments

Falun Gong practitioners participated in the celebration of Waitangi Day on February 6, a public holiday commemorating the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, New Zealand's founding document, on that date in 1840. About one hundred thousand people attend the celebration in Waitangi every year. Practitioners took the opportunity to tell the public about the…

Rome, Italy: Public Supports Effort Against Persecution of Falun Gong in China

World NewsFebruary 16, 20170Comments

Falun Gong practitioners held public events in front of the Chinese Embassy in Rome, Italy on February 8, 2017 to raise awareness of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) state-sanctioned killing of practitioners in China for their organs. They demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises and set up banners and posters. A woman named Stefania said to…

1,162 Falun Gong Practitioners Sentenced for Their Belief by Chinese Communist Regime in 2016

China NewsFebruary 16, 20170Comments

More than a thousand Falun Gong practitioners were sentenced for speaking out against the persecution of their belief by the Chinese Communist Party in 2016. Those sentenced represent 29 provinces and centrally-controlled municipalities in China. They come from all walks of life, including teachers, engineers, doctors, company managers, and business people, as well as retired…

Generating Two Million Yuan in Profit with Honest Sales

InsightsFebruary 16, 20170Comments

I have been living by the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance since I started to practice Falun Dafa in 1997. I have worked at e-commerce companies, where fake sales reporting is a common practice, but I was able to grow the business for companies through only honest sales. In China's e-commerce industry, an online store's sales volume…

Flushing, New York: Falun Dafa Group Welcomed in Chinese New Year Parade

World NewsFebruary 8, 20170Comments

During the annual Chinese New Year Parade on February 4, 2017 in Flushing, New York, local resident Yu Chunguang said after seeing the Falun Dafa contingent, “A community fist needs peace, which will then lead to economic development. I think the Falun Dafa group has contributed a lot to our local social order and prosperity.”…

Sydney, Australia: Falun Gong Practitioners Perform in Chinese New Year Celebration

Australia NewsFebruary 8, 20170Comments

The City Council of Parramatta held a large Chinese New Year Celebration on Centenary Square in the suburb of Parramatta, Sydney, Australia on February 3, 2017. Sixteen groups performed on stage, with Falun Gong practitioners' lion dance team and waist drummers as the opening act. Many in the audience stepped forward to take photos when…