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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…

Falun Gong Practitioners Perform in 20 Christmas Parades in New Zealand

World NewsDecember 18, 20160Comments

Falun Gong practitioners in New Zealand have performed in 20 Christmas parades this month. Thousands in Hamilton, Christchurch, Wellington, and 14 other cities have now seen their display of the cultivation practice and traditional Chinese culture. Falun Gong practitioners perform in Christmas parades. The Tian Guo Marching Band, waist drum team, and float decorated with lotus flowers…

Falun Gong a Welcome Part of Holiday Festivities in New Zealand Capital

World NewsDecember 14, 20160Comments

Falun Gong practitioners from Wellington, New Zealand, participated in the Wellington Santa Parade on December 10 as part of the Capital City's annual holiday festivities – A Very Welly Christmas 2016. Falun Gong's Tian Guo Marching Band, the largest Chinese band in New Zealand, was warmly welcomed by spectators out to enjoy the holiday cheer. A…

New Zealand: Nationwide Car Tour Drawing Attention to Chinese Regime’s Organ Harvesting Crimes

World NewsOctober 19, 20160Comments

Falun Gong practitioners in New Zealand embarked on a nationwide car tour in the first week of October 2016 to raise awareness of the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) state-sanctioned killing of prisoners of conscience and taking their organs for transplants. The car tour visited over ten cities in two weeks. Their efforts drew attention from…

Chinese Tourist: “The Chinese Ought to Thank Falun Gong Practitioners”

World NewsJuly 5, 20160Comments

A torture re-enactment in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, on World Anti-Torture Day caught people's attention. Falun Gong practitioners held activities on Aotea Square on June 26, 2016, appealing to the public to help end the 17-year-long persecution of Falun Gong in China. The “anti-torture demonstration” was made up of two distinct parts. One part featured the re-enactment…

Auckland, New Zealand: Introducing Falun Dafa to the Largest Polynesian Community

World NewsJune 17, 20160Comments

Falun Dafa practitioners held a weekend event in Auckland, New Zealand to raise awareness of the ongoing persecution of the meditation practice by the communist regime in China. At the June 11 gathering in the business district of Otara in South Auckland, practitioners demonstrated the gentle Falun Dafa exercises, gave a waist drum performance, and handed…

Auckland New Zealand: Torture Reenactment Exposes Inhuman Persecution in China

World NewsJune 13, 20160Comments

People visiting Aotea Square in downtown Auckland on June 4, 2016 saw an re-enactment of tortures commonly used by the Chinese communist regime on Falun Gong practitioners. The event raised the awareness of the 16-year-long inhuman and brutal persecution of Falun Gong in China. Many people signed a petition requesting an immediate end to the…

New Zealand: Rally in Support of 230 Million Who Have Quit the Chinese Communist Party

World NewsApril 9, 20160Comments

Falun Gong practitioners held a rally on Queen Elizabeth Square in downtown Auckland, New Zealand on April 2, 2016 in support of 230 million Chinese people who have withdrawn their memberships in the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organizations. A crowd was attracted by the huge banners, display boards, a performance by waist drummers,…