Sound of Hope Special Broadcast in Austria: New Year's Greetings from Master Li Hongzhi

This special broadcast was aired on Friday, February 5th, 2006 in Vienna and vicinities:

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has attempted to eliminate the peaceful meditation practice Falun Gong for seven years. Yet, the many New Year's greetings from around the world to Mr. Li Hongzhi show that Falun Gong is alive and well and has survived the unprecedented brutal campaign of the CCP.

Given the numerous New Year's greetings from non-practitioners that also came from Mainland China, the founder of Falun Gong sent a New Year's greeting not only to his students but also to all people worldwide for the first time. Many people from around the world, especially the Chinese people, wrote and thanked him in person, telling him that he and his students have given them hope through the principles of Falun Gong.

Falun Gong, having survived the unprecedented persecution by the CCP, has proven to the Chinese people the inner strength and the importance of the principles of the practice. Until now, all movements that were persecuted by the Communist regime were obliterated within a few months.

Translation of the original message [Official Translation from Clearwisdom]:

My Thanks to Sentient Beings Who Have Sent Greetings

Dafa disciples, people of the world, and all sentient beings:

Greetings!

Thank you for sending along your greetings and well wishes! I sincerely hope that all of my Dafa disciples will achieve Consummation! I sincerely hope that all the people of the world can be clear on the truth and distinctly see the most wicked demon that history decided to visit upon mankind for what it is, see how the wicked Party has poisoned the Chinese people and the entire world, and see how it has persecuted Dafa disciple and thus manage to survive the greatest catastrophe of all time, which has befallen all beings. I sincerely hope that all sentient beings will be saved!

Sentient beings! All that you have been hoping for, awaiting, and concerned over for thousands of years has arrived, and is in fact currently unfolding. Through it each and every person is choosing, whether knowingly or not, his or her fate.

I would like to tell you: Dafa disciples are the sole hope of salvation for the beings in each region and each nation. Cherishing what they are doing amounts to cherishing yourselves!

Thank you again for sending your greetings!

Li Hongzhi
January 1st, 2007

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In the nineties, around one hundred million Chinese people and others from around the world practised Falun Gong, a peaceful meditation practice, because of its positive effect on body and mind. The former State and Communist Party head Jiang Zemin banned the practice in 1999. He ordered an illegal suppression and persecution of millions of practitioners. Tactics included harassment, defamation and slander, being fired from ones job, loss of study opportunities, labour camp detention and torturing to death.
Despite international condemnation, the persecution is still going on. The West even heard of organ theft from Falun Gong practitioners. Thousands are being kept in death camps for murder on demand.

Originally published in German at: http://clearharmony.de/articles/200701/35689.html