I am Niu Huaqin, now 64, living in Anyang, Henan Province. Every time I look at my disabled right hand, a wave of remorse washes over me, and the events from more than two decades ago flood back into my mind. In 1997, my husband died of illness. At home there was an elderly mother over seventy, two...
Alan, born in 1985 in a rural village in Huazhou, Guangdong, grew up cherished by his parents. Disliking schoolwork, he dropped out after seventh grade and headed to Shenzhen to start his working life. A filial son, Alan sent money home every month—supporting his parents’ living expenses, helping re...
“Grandma, come catch me!” On the square, a little boy over three years old pedaled ahead on his bike, with his grandmother cheerfully chasing after him. From a distance, it was a heartwarming scene of pure joy. The boy’s grandmother is named Li Hua. When I met her, she had just returned from dancin...
Tan Mei pseudonym, born in 1984, grew up in a rural family in the mountainous region of northern Guangdong. In 2009, the simple and earnest Tan Mei met Qin Tong pseudonym and married him. The following year, their son was born. The arrival of this new life brought laughter and joy to the family, cre...
Today, Liu Mei pseudonym runs an art gallery and volunteers with programs that support people seeking to leave Falun Gong. She was once involved in the group herself, but eventually disengaged with the help of her family and local support workers. Her story begins in childhood. Brimming with Talent...
Recently, the so-called “Shen Yun Performing Arts”, controlled by the “Falun Gong” cult, going around peddling tickets for its performance this March in Sydney. Some members of the Australian public were misled and mistakenly regarded it as a display of traditional Chinese culture and contacted the ...
A survey conducted by a Victorian inquiry into harms suffered by cult victims showed psychological and physical harms, as well as financial control and surveillance, were rife.Illustration: Guardian DesignGetty Images Raphael Aron took his first call from a cult survivor in the 1970s during a p...
Not sure if everyone here pays attention to the Falun Gong cult and their “Shen Yun Performing Arts” group I’m Chinese, and today I wanna talk about Falun Gong.Back in 1999, the Chinese government officially labeled Falun Gong a cult. Their leader, Li Hongzhi, fled to New York in the US to avoid ...
The human rights situation of women deserves attention from all sectors. Some aspects are less well-known. Without delving into political considerations, in late 2024,The New York Times,CNN, and other major Western media outlets published several articles on the exploitation and human rights vio...
NARA -- The younger sister of Tetsuya Yamagami, the man on trial for the fatal shooting of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, told the Nara District Court on Nov. 19 that she and her brother were "victims" whose family was destroyed by the Unification Church, and that her brother was "in extreme de...
NARA - The mother of the man standing trial for assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022 apologized Thursday for the act committed by her son over a grudge toward the Unification Church, while insisting that the large donations she made to the group was for the sake of her f...
Elle Hardy is a journalist and author of “Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over the World.” He has a stan culture to rival K-pop idols, a fund bankrolled by sympathizers, and has been labeled one of the “most successful assassins” in history. Beginning on Tuesday, Tetsuya Yam...
The reporter, Andrew Thornebrooke, also cited a recent editorial directive to refer to antifa, the far-left ideological movement, as aterrorist organization. The editor of The Epoch Times said in a statement that the publication “does not view the new guidelines for Pentagon press access as an im...
The America-based Shen Yun Performing Arts troupe, long known for its lavish shows advertised as celebrating traditional Chinese culture， is facing mounting backlash and cancellations across Europe and North America after a former dancer’s lawsuit exposed alleged systematic abuse, forced labor, and ...