Worldwide News
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United States: Massachusetts State House Representative Karyn Polito Congratulates the 8th Annual World Falun Dafa Day
2007-06-18I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you on the celebration of the 8th Annual World Falun Dafa Day. The celebration of this event is a great opportunity to recognise this powerful spiritual healing practice and live its principles of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance. You should be proud of such an extraordinary accomplishment and be commended. -
CIPFG: Open Letter to Leaders of China Proposes a Timetable to End the Persecution
2007-06-17The open letter proposed a timetable to stop the persecution. It requires the CCP regime to end the persecution by August 8th, 2007, one year before 2008 Olympic Games begin in Beijing. They warned that if the persecution keeps on, calls to boycott the Olympic Games in Beijing may well increase. -
The Herald (United States): World mustn't remain silent about evil abuse
2007-06-17As China rebuts reports this week that some factories are using child labor to produce merchandise for the 2008 Olympic Games, a stunningly horrific report on organ harvesting awaits the government's official denial. -
South Africa: "Truth-Compassion-Forbearance" Art Exhibition Opens in Cape Town Library
2007-06-16On June 4th 2007, the "Truth-Compassion-Forbearance" Art Exhibition was displayed in the central library of Cape Town, South Africa. The works displayed in the Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance International Art Exhibition were the creation of a group of outstanding artists of different backgrounds. -
United States: Visitors to East Bridgewater Art Festival in Massachusetts Focus on Falun Gong
2007-06-16The annual East Bridgewater Art Festival was held on the East Bridgewater Common on June 10th, 2007. Besides dances, singing, photographs, and art and crafts by local artists, the organisers invited Falun Gong to demonstrate the exercises and teach people how to make the paper lotus flowers. -
Australia: Exposing the Persecution in China at a Multicultural Concert in Queensland
2007-06-15Some wrote on the petition: "The art works are very touching and profound. Thank you for bringing them to us." "Very beautiful paintings. They manifest the sincerity of Falun Gong practitioners. It is hard to believe that the Chinese Communist Party persecutes such good people." -
United States: Victims of Communism Memorial Unveiled, Volunteers Call Attention to the Trend to Quit the CCP
2007-06-15President Bush said, "According to the best scholarly estimate, Communism took the lives of tens of millions of people in China and the Soviet Union, and millions more in North Korea, Cambodia, Africa, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Eastern Europe, and other parts of the globe." "It's important that we recall these lessons because the evil and hatred that inspired the deaths of tens of millions of people in the 20th century is still at work in the world." -
Fearing NTDTV's Authentic Reports, the CCP Manipulates Overseas Chinese Students to Discredit the Dance Competition
2007-06-14On June 8th, 2007, the New York University Chinese Culture Club, NYUCCC, published an open statement which attempted to discredit the New Tang Dynasty Television's (NTDTV) International Chinese Classical Dance Competition and which indicated the group's intention to interfere with the competition. The NYUCCC also forwarded the statement via emails to overseas Chinese students at the Columbia University Chinese Students and Scholars Association, CUCSSA. -
Canada: Falun Gong Warmly Received at Philippine Independence Day Celebration in Toronto
2007-06-14The Filipino Centre of Toronto in Canada held a celebration activity to observe the Philippine Independence Day on June 9th at Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto. The Lotus Art Troupe and the Divine Land Marching Band composed of Falun Gong practitioners were invited to perform at the celebration. -
United States: People Learn Falun Gong Exercises at "Night of Newark" in Delaware
2007-06-13On June 2nd, 2007, the annual "Night of Newark" event was held on Main Street in the city of Newark, Delaware, USA. This was the seventh year that Falun Gong practitioners were invited to demonstrate the five sets of exercises at the event. This year a lot of people learned the exercises on site. -
Times Union (United States): State Legislators Learn That Falun Gong Practitioners Are Being Killed for Transplants
2007-06-13New York's Times Union newspaper reported on June 6th, 2007, that David Kilgour spoke recently in Albany to urge state lawmakers and health department officials to post public warnings for New Yorkers about organ harvesting in China. Kilgour said at the forum, "The evidence is overwhelming." -
United States: Parade in Brooklyn Supports Twenty Million Withdrawals from the CCP
2007-06-12On June 9th, 2007, several hundred people in New York held a rally in Brooklyn's Chinatown to support 23 million Chinese people quitting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its affiliated organisations. -
Canada Free Press: China Works Against Practitioners of Falun Gong Through North American News Media
2007-06-12In an era where the politically correct mainstream media follows the path of least resistance, The Epoch Times conducted an in-depth interview with Chen and publicised never-before-released documents to substantiate his charges. The documents show how China is following a course to "discredit" and "intimidate" five specific target groups: Tibetan exiles, Taiwanese, Uighur Muslims, democracy activists - and most of all Falun gong practitioners. -
Canada: CCP's Means of Controlling Oversea Chinese Communities and Infiltrating Mainstream Society Exposed
2007-06-11In the press conference, Mr. Chen said, "Chinese diplomacy is actually an extension of domestic policy. Now the CCP mainly deals with Falun Gong because there is a huge number of practitioners, who act unanimously because of their belief." The CCP spends sixty percent of its effort to deal with Falun Gong, and has even set up a special group in embassies and consulate to persecute Falun Gong. -
Japan: Displaying the Beauty of Falun Dafa at a Community Event in Tokyo
2007-06-11Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated the five sets of exercises on stage, after which they performed the dance "Buddha with a Thousand Hands." In the compassionate energy field of the practitioners, the audience broke into warm applause. Many of them said repeatedly, "How beautiful!"