When the dancers of the Shen Yun Performing Arts company took to the stage at Toronto's Canon Theatre on Friday night, many in the audience might not have realized that their show is connected to the Falun Gong spiritual movement.
I'm Wang Guangtian, I was once obsessed with Falun Gong and used to serve at Tianqiao District Assistance Center. I want to tell you my personal stories about practitioners' besieging the office building of Qilu Evening News so you'll have a clear picture about the nature of Falun Gong.
This is a comment of an American following the article Is Falun Gong a Cult written by cultic researcher Rick Alan Ross. "Here's a tip to anyone who reads this: do not walk around Flushing with any gay-pride paraphernalia one you. You will be hassled."
The story about my "curing" the girl has been told ever since then at my village and they said it was a miracle for me to cure people by reading Zhuan Falun. But, what is the truth?
Falun Gong followers in HK and the UK are squabbling over assertions by a woman in the southern Chinese territory that she is the "true master" of the spiritual movement, having taken over from its founder, Li Hongzhi, who has dropped from view, sources from AP and New York Times in August 2000.
Mr. Soskis might have done a little bit more research, and then he would have better understood why, as one Jewish leader he quoted observed, "It1s hard to get [Jewish groups] to speak out on behalf of Falun Gong,"
For the past ten or so years my parents have been heavily involved with the Falun Gong/Dafa sect which gained massive popularity both in and out of China. Since that time I have seen my parents spend thousands of dollars on airline tickets going to conferences, a rejection of modern medicine in acco...
An article slanders and disseminates the false news that abbot Shi Jianren went blind, and publishes the words which totally infringe the reputation of Wuzu Temple and his out of thin air, which was published on Minghui on March 19, 2010. Abbot Shi Jianren hereby solemnly declares:
The outlawed Falun Gong traces its roots to ancient Taoist doctrines but if you ask the priests at one of the holiest Taoist sites, the spiritual movement has borrowed a bit too loosely. "Falun Gong purloins some of our terms," said Ni Aixin, a young Taoist priest at the Supreme Purity Palace nestle...
On April 25, 1999, more than 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners gathered all of a sudden around Zhongnanhai. The incident shocked the world but Li Hongzhi had stressed for many times that he hadn't known anything about it in advance and Falun Gong denied any connection with the incident.
A 54-year-old Chinese Wang Peng left New Zealand under a removal order last Friday after her third attempt to get residency failed, sources from media of New Zealand. She met her husband Lu Qing Zhai through the local Falun Gong movement, and married last May. Although her husband Mr. Lu was granted...
This Scientology insider experience actually opened my eyes, and grew my budding interest in cults and their practices. Li Hongzhi, supported by the wealth he has sucked from disciples, is another nobody who seized an opportunity to become powerful and rich on the naivety of a populace.
"Master Li said the three from Beijing were nuts and he could do nothing about lunatics," she told me. "Refund their tuition and get a car to send them to the railway station. There's a train to Beijing at 6:40." We were outside the room of Li Hongzhi and heard him talking to Liu Guirong.
Falun Gong has wider dimensions than the Jim Jones cult in Guyana. China deserves the support of the progressive world in this endeavor. Falun Gong is a threat against common sense and the achievements of modern civilization.
When an 89-member Shen Yun troupe gives its first-ever performances in Winnipeg Wednesday and Thursday, audience members may enter the Centennial Concert Hall unaware of the show's controversial ties to Falun Gong, said by Winnipeg Free Press on April 3, 2010.