World Falun Dafa Day, Worldwide News
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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. -
Korea: "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" International Art Exhibition Held in the Korean Parliament Building
2005-02-04From January 24 to 26, 2005, a three-day "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" International Art Exhibition was held in the Korean Parliament Building. This was the 11th stop of the exhibition tour, which provided a great opportunity for many Parliament members and officials to learn the truth about Falun Gong. -
Friends of Falun Gong USA's Statement Regarding the January 21, 2005, AP Article, "Chinese government shows off repentant Falun Gong followers"
2005-02-03"The "Tiananmen Self-Immolation" incident is a story that was created, and has been repeatedly utilized, by former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a propaganda tool to turn public opinion against Falun Gong. However, on Friday, January 21, 2005, the Beijing bureau of the Associated Press published an article reporting this propaganda as if it were fact, using the CCP's own language." -
Falun Dafa Information Centre: Defending New York From China's Worst
2005-02-03FEATURE -- Jan. 30, 2005 Falun Dafa Information Center, www.faluninfo.net NEW YORK -- Books and notepads overflow off the desk to the chairs and floor in her small office in New York City -- subtle deliberate organization evident among the mountains of files...Occasionally she wakes from a brief night's sleep at her desk only to continue her labor anew. She is dedicated to a cause she knows to be profoundly worthy... -
Australia: Falun Gong Practitioners Participate in Australia Day Activities in Melbourne
2005-02-03On January 26, 2005, Australia Day, Falun Gong practitioners in Melbourne participated in the grand parade of ten thousand people and gave an art performance, at the city's invitation, at the large-scale Voyages Concert. -
United States: "Friends of Charles Lee" Hold Rally to Call Upon Chinese Government to Release Charles
2005-02-02January 22, 2005 marks the second anniversary of American Falun Gong practitioner Charles Lee's unlawful imprisonment in China. On January 29, "Friends of Charles Lee" held a rally on Union Square in San Francisco to call upon the Chinese government to immediately release Charles. California Congressman Tom Lantos sent a statement of support to the rally. -
A Sympathetic Farmer Decides to Foster the Orphan of Two Falun Dafa Practitioners
2005-02-02Xiang Shan (alias), a farmer from Jilin City, Jilin Province is honest and kind to others. His neighbour is a Falun Dafa practitioner, and he admires practitioners for their noble character. When he saw that practitioners were seized, put into labour camps, sentenced, and even murdered for exposing the truth to save the world's people, and their children were left with no one to take care of them, he was very troubled. He talked it over with his wife and they decided to take care of an orphan whose parents were practitioners. -
Peruvian Falun Dafa Association Files Lawsuit against Zeng Qinghong, Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, and Bo Xilai
2005-02-01On January 28, 2005, during Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong's state visit to five South American countries, Ministerio Publico y la Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Republica Peru accepted a lawsuit filed by the Peruvian Falun Dafa Association against Zeng Qinghong, Jiang Zemin, Luo Gan, and Bo Xilai for genocide and crimes against humanity. -
New Falun Dafa Practice Site in Kurunegala, Sri Lanka
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Indonesia: "I Believe You Are Doing a Good Deed, Benefiting People and Society"
2005-01-31The "Uncompromising Courage" art exhibition came to Palembang on the third stop of its tour through Indonesia. After practitioners handed out flyers and talked about Falun Gong and the persecution, the majority of the Chinese people present understood the true meaning of the exhibition and were sympathetic to practitioners in the Mainland. -
Australia: Zhang Cuiying Nominated for "Banktown 2004 Citizen of the Year Award," Lawsuit Against Jiang Zemin Attracts Wide Attention
2005-01-31On January 26, 2005, Australia Day, the Banktown city government held an award ceremony in a park for citizens who had been nominated as "2004 Citizen of the Year." Falun Gong practitioner and painter Zhang Cuiying was nominated for her excellence in painting, richness in compassion and the contribution to human rights and freedom of belief. -
US Members of Congress Write to Ambassador of China to Again Express Their Serious Concerns about the Imprisonment of Dr. Charles Lee
2005-01-30On January 27, 2005, US Members of Congress Anna G. Eshoo and Tom Lantos jointly wrote a letter to Mr. Yang Jiechi, the Ambassador of China to the USA, to again express their serious concerns about the imprisonment of Dr. Charles Lee, who was arrested on January 22, 2003 upon arrival in Guangzhou Airport and has already served two years of his three year sentence on charges of sabotage. -
Australia: "Uncompromising Courage" Art Exhibition Held in Queensland
2005-01-30Beginning on January 10, 2005, Falun Gong practitioners have hosted the "Uncompromising Courage" art exhibition in Brisbane Library and in the business areas on the Gold Coast, to display Falun Gong practitioners' uncompromising courage in the face of brutal persecution of Falun Gong in China.