• Shen Yun in the eyes of a London retired teacher
    2010-06-10

    My point is that it should have been billed as 'The Falun Gong Show' and everybody would know where they stood. I felt suckered into going along with it. How I would have felt if I'd been Chinese and paid £55 for the seat, thinking I was going to see just traditional songs and dances? I imagine I'd ...

  • Why I don't like Falun Gong
    2010-06-09

    I'm just posting this on here because this is the same response I have to every pro-Falun Gong person who messages me. I hope this post will serve as a reference so that I don't have to keep typing out the same message to the people who fill up my inbox.

  • Played for fools, by "Shen Yun"
    2010-06-08

    You've really got to hand it to the folks behind "Shen Yun," the unconscionable piece of religious propaganda. Through an overwhelming promotional campaign, they duped thousands of people into paying outrageous sums of money to watch a half-baked advertisement for Falun Gong.

  • Falun Gong: A new cult emerges
    2010-06-07

    The rapid development in China of the religious cult known as Falun Gong is the most remarkable example of the growing popularity in recent years of millenarian beliefs. The cult itself claims to have gained a following of 100 million people. This figure is certainly exaggerated.

  • Feedback from Falun Gong
    2010-06-02

    Some interesting responses were posted regarding recent articles about Falun Gong at CultNews.The fiery deaths and mutilations of Falun Gong protesters that set themselves on fire didn't seem to raise any troubling questions to those still committed to Li Hongzhi and his "evil cult."

  • Falun Gong: what's behind the movements?
    2010-05-31

    The political leadership of China is not the only group alarmed by the spread of Falun Gong, a term used to describe both a set of slow, graceful exercises and the banned Chinese spiritual movement that practices them, sources from the Washington Post on November 20, 2001.

  • My brief experience with the Falun Gong
    2010-05-28

    I don't think there is anything wrong in joining a "qigong organization" like Falun Gong that makes claims to certain religious beliefs, but I do think its teachers, disciples and any other representative agents should be clear about their intentions.

  • Why all the fuss about Falun Gong?
    2010-05-27

    Falun Gong also known as Falun Dafa led by Chinese exile Li Hongzhi has been labeled an "evil cult" in China and it seems Chinese American communities have increasingly become concerned about its adherents activities in the US.

  • Li Hongzhi and his PR machine
    2010-05-25

    CultNews was soon strewn with comments from Falun Gong followers after an article appeared yesterday examining the racist and bigoted teachings of its founder and leader Li Hongzhi. Interestingly, the feedback received insisted that they were offered out of context and/or defended them.

  • Chinese "cult leader" has likely become US millionaire
    2010-05-24

    It appears that Li Hongzhi the leader of Falun Gong, a group Chinese officials refer to as an "evil cult," may have become a millionaire since his exile in the United States.

  • Zhang Wenbo: My first close contact with Li Hongzhi
    2010-05-20

    My name is Zhang Wenbo and I live in Tiexi District of Siping City in Jilin Province. I used to be interested in various qigong practices when they were popular in China in early 1990s.

  • "Evil cult" causes stir in San Francisco
    2010-05-19

    Falun Gong had something of a public relations meltdown in San Francisco this month. And despite its best efforts at spin control could not right its sinking ship within the Chinese American and gay communities in the Bay Area, sources from Cultnews.com in 2006.

  • Who keeps ringing that (Falun) Gong?
    2010-05-17

    No one told me that the Falun Gong had invaded Manhattan, but it seems to have happened. Just when we've gotten rid of the infestation of Republican delegates, I can't go anywhere without tripping over a Falun Gong representative.

  • O'Brien keen to avoid 'incident' with China
    2010-05-14

    Less than a month after returning from a business mission to China, Mayor Larry O'Brien is refusing to proclaim Falun Dafa Day, for fear it might "create any kind of international incident."

  • For whom the Gong tolls
    2010-05-13

    An elusive mystery man who teaches calisthenic-like exercises to old ladies in tennis shoes, and appears to be in hiding somewhere in the American Southwest. Unless he's in Queens.