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Gold Coast Multicultural Festival Embraces Falun Dafa

Australia NewsAugust 12, 20190Comments

Australian Falun Dafa practitioners received a warm welcome back to the annual Gold Coast Multicultural Festival in Queensland on August 4, 2019. The event funded by Gold Coast City Council attracts more than 20,000 locals and visitors each year to the iconic Broadwater Parklands in Southport. Greens candidate Amin Javanmard, who contested the Queensland seat…

Falun Dafa Practitioners Strongly Supported at the Pacific Pines Winterfest

Australia NewsAugust 12, 20190Comments

Falun Dafa practitioners were very well received at the 2019 Pacific Pines Winterfest held on July 28. The largest annual community event in the Gold Coast hinterland, welcomed well over 6,000 attendees to Central Park Oval where there was a very diverse mix of stalls, community groups, food and family friendly entertainment. Practitioners delivered the…

Introducing Falun Dafa and the Persecution to the Queensland Television News Team

Australia NewsAugust 12, 20190Comments

Gold Coast Falun Dafa practitioners had a rare chance to speak with the 9 News Brisbane and Gold Coast teams during a morning tea they organised at McDonald’s Tugun, on July 18, 2019. Practitioners met with different television presenters including Andrew Lofthouse, Eva Milic and rugby league legend “The King” Wally Lewis. They were introduced…

Queensland: Raising Awareness of the 20-Year-Long Persecution of Falun Gong

Australia NewsJuly 22, 20190Comments

Falun Gong practitioners held activities to expose the 20th anniversary of the persecution in China at Brisbane Square on July 13, 2019. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started persecuting Falun Gong on July 20, 1999, and it continues to this day. The practitioners demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises, held up banners, distributed fliers…

Falun Gong Practitioner Tells President Trump Her Story of Persecution in China

World NewsJuly 22, 20190Comments

Ms. Zhang Yuhua was among the 27 survivors of religious persecution from 17 countries, who met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office in the White House on July 17, 2019. The 27 survivors were in town to attend the second Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom this week, which was held in the…

Introducing Falun Gong in Taupo, New Zealand

World NewsJuly 22, 20190Comments

Falun Gong practitioners introduced the ancient spiritual practice to the public at the Taupo market on July 6, 2019. As part of the day's events, they demonstrated the exercises, did the popular dragon dance, and had an information stand. Many people stopped by and asked about Falun Gong. Monika Geister, the market coordinator,…

Bangalore, India: Middle School Principal Finds Falun Dafa Two Years after a Dream

World NewsJuly 22, 20190Comments

A story about a middle school principal in Bangalore, India, is widely known in the town of Chintamani. A few years ago, Varkey, the principal, had a dream in which he saw many people practicing a Chinese cultivation system on a large square. He was amazed and started to look for this practice…

Turkey: Introducing Falun Dafa at Soli Sun Festival in Mersin

World NewsJuly 22, 20190Comments

Falun Dafa in Turkey practitioners participated in the Soli Sun Festival, one of the most popular summer festivals, in the city of Mersin on June 21 and 22, 2019. Over both days of the festival, they distributed small paper lotus flowers, demonstrated the exercises on the festival stage, and collected…

Chinese Tourists Gain Access to Information Blocked by Communist Regime

Australia NewsJuly 7, 20190Comments

The Sydney Opera House is one of the most popular tourist sites in the world and many mainland Chinese tourists stop at this World Heritage Site when they visit Australia. Falun Dafa practitioners come to the Opera House to reach out to these tourists and offer them information about Dafa that they cannot…

New Zealand: Practitioners Introduce Falun Gong at Events in South Auckland

World NewsJuly 7, 20190Comments

Falun Gong practitioners from Auckland did the exercises and introduced the ancient spiritual practice at a market in south Auckland on June 22, 2019. A continuous stream of people visited the morning market and stopped to watch as practitioners did the Falun Gong exercises. Many took photos and talked to practitioners.…

Six Jilin Residents Tried for Practicing Falun Gong, Due Process Denied

China NewsJuly 7, 20190Comments

Six Falun Gong practitioners were tried by the Shulan Court on May 21 and 22, 2019 for not renouncing their faith, a spiritual discipline based on the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance. Falun Gong has been persecuted by the Chinese communist regime since 1999. Due process was not followed in…

Minghui Report: 341 Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested in May 2019

China News, World NewsJuly 7, 20190Comments

According to information compiled by Minghui.org, 341 Falun Gong practitioners in China were arrested and 302 were harassed by the police in May 2019 for refusing to renounce their faith. Two hundred and seventeen practitioners remain captive at the time of writing. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a mind-body…