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Germany: Elected Officials in Lunen Learn Falun Gong Exercises at Cultural Festival

World NewsJuly 8, 20180Comments

Falun Gong practitioners in Germany participated in the 35th Cultural Festival on Willy-Brandt-Platz in Lunen on June 30, 2018. They told about the benefits of practicing Falun Gong and demonstrated the five exercises on stage. Elected officials and local residents followed along to learn them. On this beautiful sunny Saturday, crowds of people converged on Willy-Brandt-Platz…

Toronto, Canada: Learning Ancient Meditation at Annual Strawberry Festival

World NewsJuly 8, 20180Comments

Toronto Falun Gong practitioners participated in the Whitchurch-Stouffville Strawberry Festival on June 30. Many people were happy to learn about Falun Gong during the Canada Day celebrations and some learned the exercises at the event. Located about 30 miles north of Toronto, the festival tradition started in 1984 and has become one of the major…

“Code of Revelation” Moves Audience in New York Screening

World NewsJuly 8, 20180Comments

Code of Revelation, the first production of New Century Film, was screened on April 29, 2018, to 100 residents in Orange County, New York. The film won the Grand Prize Award at the Canada International Film Festival in March 2018. The film is based on the testimony of a police officer in China who witnessed…

Cornwall, UK: Introducing Falun Gong at the Golowan Festival

World NewsJuly 1, 20180Comments

Falun Gong practitioners participated in the Golowan Festival, a musical and cultural celebration of midsummer, for the eleventh time in Penzance, a coastal city in Cornwall, UK, on June 23-24, 2018. The practitioners set up a stand early in the morning, where they provided information about Falun Gong. They demonstrated the exercises, distributed Falun Gong…

Bulgaria: Citizens Learn the Facts about Falun Gong on Bulgarian Culture Day

World NewsJuly 1, 20180Comments

May 24 is a major Bulgarian holiday dedicated to Bulgarian education and culture and to the Cyrillic alphabet. Falun Gong practitioners in Sofia, Bulgaria, took the opportunity to raise awareness among citizens and tourists about the brutal and not so well known persecution of Falun Gong in China. The practitioners displayed banners on the busiest commercial…

Master Li Hongzhi Lectures to Ten Thousand Falun Gong Practitioners at DC Conference

World NewsJuly 1, 20180Comments

Nearly ten thousand practitioners from 56 countries and areas attended the 2018 Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference held at the Capital One Arena in Washington DC on Thursday, June 21, 2018. Master Li Hongzhi arrived at the conference at 2:00 p.m., and lectured for one hour and 45 minutes, including a question and answer session.…

Thousands March in Washington D.C., Call for End of Persecution

World NewsJuly 1, 20180Comments

More than 6,000 Falun Gong (also called Falun Dafa) practitioners from around the world held a march in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, June 20, to draw attention to the 19-year persecution of Falun Gong in China and to call for support in bringing about its end. Led by the Tian Guo Marching Band, the march took…

Missouri, USA: Introducing Falun Gong at ‘Life Outside’ Festival in St. Louis

World NewsJune 17, 20180Comments

Falun Gong practitioners in St. Louis, Missouri, participated in the 3rd “Life Outside” Festival on Creve Coeur Lake on June 9, 2018. Practitioners have been introducing Falun Gong and exposing the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) persecution at this increasingly popular event since its inaugural year in 2016. A steady stream of interested people visited the…

A Bulgarian Seaman Takes the Path of Falun Dafa Cultivation

Insights, World NewsJune 17, 20180Comments

I’m a seaman from Bulgaria. I started practicing Falun Dafa about two years ago. I had some issues with my neck and upper back before I began cultivating. For years I experienced pain starting from my back and then slowly expanding to my neck and evolving into severe headaches, for which I regularly took painkillers.…

Persecution of Falun Gong Escalated in Xinjiang

China News, World NewsJune 17, 20180Comments

In the name of “maintaining stability,” the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Committee in Xinjiang have arrested Falun Gong practitioners, human rights defenders, religious personnel, and ethnic minorities without legal formalities or procedures. The authorities have also established "education and retraining centres" in every city and county. Those detained face physical and mental torture. In Urumqi,…

Hong Kong Forum Highlights Organ Harvesting Atrocities in Mainland China

China News, World NewsJune 17, 20180Comments

Political heavyweights and experts gathered in Hong Kong on June 10, 2018, to discuss how the Chinese communist regime persecutes Falun Gong practitioners and other religious groups. At the forum “Is there Freedom of Religion in China? -- On the Persecution of Falun Gong,” legislators and experts criticised the Chinese regime for profiting from organs…

Liaoning Woman Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for Her Faith

China News, World NewsJune 17, 20180Comments

A Chaoyang City resident was sentenced to six years in prison and fined 10,000 yuan for distributing information exposing the Chinese communist regime's persecution of Falun Gong. Ms. Jiang Weizhen credits Falun Gong, a spiritual discipline based on the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, for returning her to health. Her family and friends were all amazed that…