April 28, 2025 | By Zeng Hong, a Minghui correspondent in Texas
(Minghui.org) Falun Dafa practitioners in Texas held a rally in front of the Austin State Assembly building on the afternoon of April 24, 2025 to mark the 26th anniversary of the April 25 Appeal. Angela Paxton, Member of the Texas State Senate, addressed the rally.
On April 25,…
April 13, 2025 | By Gu Wang
(Minghui.org) In Western society “appeal” is a term that’s seldom used. Citizens have ways to express their opinions, and it’s not unusual for thousands of people to gather outside the president’s residence or a country’s capital building to protest.
On the other side of the Pacific Ocean, in China on…
May 4, 2024 | By a Falun Dafa practitioner in India
(Minghui.org) Twenty-five news media in India reported on the 25th anniversary of the April 25 appeal, allowing their readers to know how and why this day matters in modern history.
The appeal on April 25, 1999, was a silent and orderly demonstration of around 10,000 Falun Dafa practitioners…
April 25, 2024 | By a Falun Dafa practitioner in Indonesia
(Minghui.org) Practitioners in various cities in Indonesia held activities on April 14th and 20th to commemorate the 25thAnniversary of the April 25 Peaceful Appeal. They demanded that the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) end the brutal persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners.
Twenty-five years ago, over 10,000 Falun Dafa practitioners…
April 10, 2023 | By Zheng Yan
(Minghui.org) In response to the strict pandemic lockdown in China, many people have taken the unprecedented step of protesting to defend their basic right to live a normal life. People clearly understand the underlying causes of these protests, as almost every Chinese has experienced the lockdown themselves and knows how…
April 28, 2022 | By Shu Yun, a Falun Dafa practitioner in China
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(Minghui.org) Two events significant for Falun Dafa practitioners took place in 1999 in Beijing: the April 25 peaceful appeal and the July 20 appeal. I was fortunate to participate in both and witnessed Dafa’s beauty and compassion.
The April 25 Peaceful Appeal
Falun…
Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, was first publicly taught in China in May 1992.
Many who took up the practice became much healthier, their moral values improved and Falun Gong quickly spread all over China by word of mouth.
On April 25, 1999, tens of thousands of practitioners rushed to the…
Eighteen years ago, more than 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners held a peaceful demonstration at the National Appeals Office in Beijing on April 25, 1999, seeking the release of several practitioners unjustly arrested days before.
Many thought that the large scale demonstration directly triggered the brutal nationwide persecution campaign launched a few months later by then…
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…
Display boards and banners were set up in the pedestrian area in front of St. Dominics Church.
The displays showed the brutality of the persecution of Falun Gong in China, talked about the more than 200,000 criminal complaints that have been filed against Jiang Zemin for his role in the persecution, and offered people a…
Millions of Falun Gong practitioners around the world will mark a historic day on 25 April commemorating the 13th anniversary of the largest public appeal since the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests.
More than 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners went to the Appeals Office of the State Council in Beijing to peacefully appeal on April 25, 1999.