Worldwide News
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Australia: Falun Dafa Saved My Life; the Chinese Embassy Is Denying My Passport
2005-02-11The first time I practised, an electric current passed through my whole body. Merely two to three days later I felt that all my energy meridians had opened up. I was greatly inspired. After enduring a long-term illness, I never felt better in my entire life. -
United States: Falun Gong Practitioners Attend Vietnamese American New Year Celebration
2005-02-10On February 6, 2005, a New Year's Celebration event sponsored by Vietnamese Americans was held in the Reliant Arena in Houston. Falun Gong practitioners' introduction booth attracted a lot of attention among a variety of programs, including traditional music, a lion dance, sports and booths of various different groups. -
Taiwan: Falun Gong Exercise Demonstration at an Annual Holiday Luncheon
2005-02-10Employers in Taiwan usually show their appreciation of their employees' hard work with a holiday luncheon on December 16 of the lunar calendar. My company invited guests to give an art performance at this year's holiday luncheon. A special program stood out with its and beauty and unique, tranquil character. -
Saipan: Practitioners Introduce Falun Dafa at Tourist Attractions
2005-02-09In recent years, more and more tourists from Mainland China have come to visit Saipan. The following pictures show practitioners introducing Falun Dafa and explaining the truth about the persecution in the Mainaland to Chinese visitors at tourist attractions. -
United States: Semi-Divine Nature of Chinese Culture Highlighted at Chinese New Year Global Gala in New York
2005-02-08On the evening of February 4, 2005, New Tang Dynasty TV held the 2005 Chinese New Year Global Gala in New York, after earlier performances in Hong Kong, Taipei, London, San Francisco, Toronto and Washington DC. The 5000-seat theatre in Madison Square Garden was sold out two days before the performance. -
Taiwan: Cultivation Experiences of Young Falun Gong Practitioners in Hualian Minghui School
2005-02-08Last semester, young practitioners in a Minghui group at a school in Hualian changed considerably. The cultivation experiences here described how the children in the group followed Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance in their daily lives. -
Taiwan: Huideng Middle School Teachers' Falun Gong Research Camp
2005-02-07On January 26 and 27, Huideng Middle School hosted one of about twenty teachers' research camps that were held this winter in Taiwan. Practitioners shared their experiences with attendees and taught the exercises. -
Wilmington Star-News (United States): China's tyranny
2005-02-07The "self-immolation" incident reported in the article has already been renounced worldwide as a hoax...I was very disappointed that the article gave no real opposing opinion to that of the Chinese Communist Party. Given that the Chinese government is currently waging what has been increasingly been called genocide by international observers against Falun Gong, it would seem impossible to get an objective viewpoint simply by quoting the Chinese government's point of view. -
Mother and Son Are Reunited After Years of Persecution
2005-02-06February 1, 2005 is a date that Falun Gong practitioner Zhiwei (Tommy) Xu and his mother Ms. Cui Zhang will never forget. Due to the Jiang regime and the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of Falun Gong, mother and son have been separated for 8 years, until their tearful reunion today. -
United States: Practitioners Stage Peaceful Appeal at AP Headquarters
2005-02-06At the AP's Manhattan headquarters, there were practitioners from all over the world conducting appeals last weekend. A practitioner at the site said that the AP seemed to have a high level meeting last Sunday and we distributed "An Open Letter to the Associated Press" to them. The past weekend, some staff inside the headquarters came out to learn Falun Gong from us and asked where they could purchase Falun Gong books. -
Practitioners in Japan Continue to Hold Anti-Torture Exhibitions Despite Harsh Weather
2005-02-06To help more people know about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in Mainland China, practitioners in Japan continue to hold anti-torture exhibitions despite the cold weather. More and more people have thus learned the truth and signed the petition calling for an end to the persecution. -
Falun Gong News Bulletin
2005-02-05"... what's really disturbing about this article by the Associated Press is that there is no context to the torture that has taken place in China, to the continued slave labour camps that are still happening right now, there is nothing about people who died in custody. There was no reference by that western reporter to any of that, and there was no reference to the fact this was clearly staged by the government...You are left with a one-sided story, and that one-sided story is exactly what the Chinese state wanted to put out." -
Report on the Taiwan Hualian Minghui School Winter Camp
2005-02-05After participating in the Taiwan Education Expo from January 22 to 24, 2005, the Hualian Minghui School held a five-day winter camp. Because Minghui School promotes "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" to students, focusing on "virtue" and moral education, society gives it prominent recognition. -
Daily Herald (Chicago, United States): Mom, son reunite despite persecution
2005-02-05"She missed eight years of her son's life and three years of her grandson's firsts - first words, first laughs, first steps. He missed his father's funeral and he missed his mother. Very much. Tuesday night at O'Hare International Airport, eight years of a personal and political struggle merged in a teary embrace between a mother and son who were separated, they say, because of communist China's crackdown on their [spiritual] beliefs." -
Australia: Local Government Hosts Painting Exhibition for Traditional Chinese Painter and Falun Gong Practitioner Zhang Cuiying
2005-02-04An art exhibition by Chinese traditional painter and Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Cuiying Zhang was held at the Blacktown Art Centre in Sydney on January 27. The organiser of the exhibition, Public Relations Director Mr. Leighton Farrell of the Blacktown government, hosted the opening ceremony.