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Threats Against Shen Yun and Falun Gong Highlighted During Forum to Discuss the CCP’s Transnational Repression

World NewsJune 11, 20250Comments

June 11, 2025 | By Li Jingfei, a Minghui correspondent in Washington DC (Minghui.org) A forum was held on the afternoon of June 6, 2025 to discuss the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) campaign of misinformation and legal warfare in the U.S. to attack Falun Gong and Shen Yun Performing Arts. Speakers during the forum titled: “The CCP’s…

Washington DC: White House Condemns Bomb Threats Against Shen Yun

World NewsMarch 19, 20250Comments

March 19, 2025 | By Minghui correspondent Wang Ying (Minghui.org) The White House condemned the threats linked to Beijing (the Chinese Communist Party) that aim to disrupt Shen Yun Performing Arts’ performances, saying the Trump administration will take any such operations seriously and ensure perpetrators are held accountable. “Don’t disrupt it,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt…

Washington, DC: Falun Dafa Group Awarded First Place in Presidents’ Day Parade

World NewsFebruary 23, 20250Comments

Feb. 23, 2025 | By Minghui correspondents in Washington DC (Minghui.org) The Presidents’ Day parade was held in Alexandria, Virginia, on February 15, 2025 to celebrate the 293rd birthday of George Washington, the founding father of the United States. This was the third year practitioners participated in the local Presidents’ Day parade and they introduced Falun Dafa…

Washington DC: Elected Officials at Forum on Capitol Hill Support 440 Million People Quitting the Chinese Communist Party

World NewsNovember 27, 20240Comments

Nov. 25, 2024 | By Li Jingfei, Minghui correspondent in Washington DC (Minghui.org) To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the release of the Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party, elected officials in Washington DC, experts, media, and survivors of the persecution attended a forum on Capitol Hill on November 22, 2024, to celebrate the 440 million people who have quit the Chinese Communist Party…

Washington DC, US: Spectators Learn About Falun Dafa from Practitioners in the Memorial Day Parade

World NewsJune 1, 20240Comments

May 31, 2024 | By Minghui correspondent Li Jingfei from Virginia (Minghui.org) Practitioners in the greater Washington area once again participated in the Memorial Day parade in Falls Church, Virginia, a suburb of Washington D.C., on May 27, 2024. Spectators said that they felt the positive attitude of practitioners and the energy they brought. When seeing the…

Washington DC: Falun Dafa Welcomed at St. Patrick’s Day Parade

World NewsMarch 9, 20240Comments

March 4, 2024 | By Li Jingfei, a Minghui correspondent in Virginia (Minghui.org) Every year cities throughout the U.S. hold parades to commemorate Ireland’s traditional festival, St. Patrick’s Day. Falun Dafa practitioners from the greater Washington DC area participated in the St. Patrick’s Day parade held on March 2, 2024, in Alexandria, Virginia. They demonstrated the…

USA: National Flag Raised in the U.S. Capital to Recognise Falun Dafa and Its Founder

World NewsMay 31, 20230Comments

May 30, 2023 | By a Falun Dafa practitioner in the U.S. (Minghui.org) May 13, 2023, was the 31st anniversary of Falun Dafa’s public introduction and the 24th World Falun Dafa Day. On May 13, 2023, to mark this special day and to celebrate the birthday of Mr. Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Dafa, two American…

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…

U.S. Lawmakers, NGO Leaders Support Falun Gong’s 18-Year-Long Peaceful Resistance

World NewsJuly 23, 20170Comments

Several hundred Falun Gong practitioners from across the U.S. held a rally on Capitol Hill Thursday, calling for help in stopping the persecution of Falun Gong that began 18 years ago, on July 20, 1999. Several members of Congress, the chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, and several speakers from religious and…

Forum on Capitol Hill Marks 18 Years Since Historic April 25, 1999 Falun Gong Protest

World NewsApril 25, 20170Comments

U.S. elected officials, China human rights activists, and Falun Gong practitioners attended a congressional forum in Washington on the topic of Falun Gong's April 25, 1999, peaceful Beijing protest. The forum was held in the Rayburn Office Building of the U.S. House of Representatives on April 19, 2017. Eighteen years ago, on April 25, 1999, approximately…

Rally and March in Washington, D.C. Opposing Persecution in China

World NewsJuly 17, 20160Comments

Over one thousand Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa) practitioners held a rally, march, and candlelight vigil in Washington, D.C. on July 14, 2016. The events aimed to raise public awareness of the Chinese communist regime's persecution of Falun Gong, and called on all circles to help stop the atrocities that have now persisted…