• Ding Shumin dies for trusting in karma elimination instead of medical science
    2010-04-02

    Ding Shumin used to be a resident at Yudong Street of Banan District in Chongqing City. She started to practice Falun Gong in 1999 and became so obsessed with it that she refused to take medical treatment after having breast cancer. She died on May 31, 2008, at the age of 57.

  • Shen Yun
    2010-03-30

    I do not believe Falun Dafa is an organization I would partake in nor would I suggest anyone to take that step without seriously researching the topic first. For some--the cult ideals may work, but not for me.

  • Falun Gong asylum-seeker loses appeal to stay in UK
    2010-03-29

    A FOLLOWER of the Falun Gong spiritual movement has been refused permission to remain in Scotland, and will be returned to China, sources from Scotsman.com on December 13, 2006.

  • Indonesia shuts down Falun Gong radio station
    2010-03-26

    On Tuesday (March 23, 2010) morning, local police and officials from the Riau Islands Radio Frequency Monitoring Body (Balmon) confiscated the equipment after warning the station to stop broadcasting without a valid license, sources from the Jakarta Post.

  • Voice of Buddhism: Uncovering the true face of Falun Gong
    2010-03-24

    Malaysian Buddhist community held a joint seminar on the subject "Falun Gong & Qigong & Evil Religion" to directly educate people. In fact, opposing to Falun Gong's bid for registration is substantially a mission of education, which not only fosters people's ability of discerning good from evil, but...

  • Hao Xianzhong:obsessed with Falun Gong and torturing his parents to death
    2010-03-23

    Hao Xianzhong used to have a happy family. But all had changed and the family had fallen apart ever since Hao Xianzhong became a prey of Falun Gong. In three months from April to June 1999, his parents and paternal grandmother passed away in succession.

  • The way how a 75-year-old woman grows new teeth
    2010-03-19

    Minghui is a media manipulated by Falun Gong organization and the source publishing and distributing most of the "scriptures" and "lectures teaching Fa" by Li Hongzhi. But it does more than this and fabricates numerous claimed "first-hand" materials about miracle and karma stories.

  • "I was expelled just for illegal stay"
    2010-03-09

    "I was expelled for illegal stay. It has nothing to do with my practicing Falun Gong," Mr. Wu stated explicitly in the interview at Chengyang District of Qingdao, Shandong Province on October 13, 2009.

  • The Controversy of Falun Gong and its repression in China
    2010-03-05

    Ken Gullette is the owner and instructor of an online internal arts school - www.internalfightingarts.com. He said on his blog on February 9, 2010 that, "It's an interesting controversy, but it has nothing to do with tai chi or chi kung. The Falun Gong is a cult."

  • Christians and Falun Gong and Scientologists, OH MY!!!
    2010-03-03

    New Yorker James J. Gerber wrote an article in his blog "Confusing Medical Science Since 1971". He said that, "if a group is generating cult-like devotion, making cult-like claims of the powers of its' beliefs and practices, and acting in really creepy ways, well, maybe they are a cult."

  • Stance toughened on Falun Gong radio in Indonesia
    2010-02-26

    The Communications and Information Technology Ministry, through the Radio Frequency Spectrum Monitoring Center (BMSFR), plans to force Era Baru Radio station off the air, source from the Jakarta Post on February 25, 2010.

  • Print Media Coverage of Falun Gong in Australia and New Zealand
    2010-02-24

    This paper assesses the accuracy of articles on Falun Gong published in Australian and New Zealand newspapers, using primary sources and first hand knowledge from ethnographic research conducted in New Zealand. I found that the information given to Western reporters is misleading.

  • Shen Yun Performing Arts at Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
    2010-02-12

    Last night I took my mom to Dorothy Chandler Pavilion to see Shen Yun Performing Arts show. We thought it was Chinese traditional dance show, but it was actually not all about arts, and more about the religion Falun Gong.

  • 'Chinese New Year Spectacular' @ the Buell
    2010-02-10

    The way the show veered from secular to devout threw me, and probably a few others in the crowd. Of course, what can you expect from a troupe called Divine Performing Arts? One audience member (a Chinese expatriate from Westminster) sent me a note yesterday saying he felt he'd been duped.

  • When does a faith become a cult?
    2010-02-08

    It predisposes me so much against the grandiose pretensions of Li Hongzhi that I am ready to give the Chinese government the benefit of the doubt on this one: Falun Gong looks like a cult, smells like a cult and by any reasonable definition is a cult.