These are some comments about the article Falun Gong - harmless exercise fanatics or weird cult. An employee from Epoch Times raised an objection to the article, the author Udo Schuklenk and a student from Canada Ayesha retorted upon him.
Though proponents allege there is "no organization" and "no leader", there is an official website1, and the writings on that website come almost entirely from the group's founder and the origin of their beliefs, Li Hongzhi. These writings, along with Li's lectures, make it clear that the cult has ti...
Authors of special report dealt with recent fallout from Goel Ratzon, who had 17 wives and 39 children. The government must create comprehensive legislation to combat the phenomenon of cults in Israel and provide a clearer definition of what constitutes cult activity, a report published Monday by a ...
I have tried to find the answer from her will, but the second half of letter was soaked. Was Li Fengying insane because of practicing Falun Gong? Or did she choose to die for the teaching of "going up to the heaven"? Everything is a complete riddle after Li's death.
Seated in the wheelchair, I was full of sorrows to look at my pixilated daughter and my husband's gaunt face. I even felt ashamed when thinking about my daughter. Practicing Falun Gong didn't cure my illness, but led to my daughter's mental illness and my own paralysis.
In June 1997, Dong began to practice Falun Gong for believing that Falun Gong could keep your body strong, make you be a good person with the belief “Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance” and cure the disease without any medical treatment. Her life then totally changed.
Minghui Net published a "miracle" article titled Two Old Ladies' New Lives on November 22, 2009. The article said two old ladies regain their health after knowing that "Falun Dafa was good". I just came from the same county, so I decided to make a field investigation.
I'm Li Qing, 21 years old, from Tieni Village, Guohe Town of Xiantao City, Hubei Province. My dad Li Daofang, who was born in 1965, started practicing Falun Gong in 1997. On March 7, 2002, my dad hanged himself in his room to reach Consummation at the age of 37.
Another member of the banned Falun Gong spiritual group committed suicide by setting himself on fire, according to Chinese state media. It was the second time in less than a month that group members were reported to have resorted to self-immolation to bring attention to their cause.
Audiences might get more than they bargained for in a show by Shen Yun Performing Arts, now at the Civic Opera House in Chicago through Sunday, April 24. My only wish is Shen Yun would be more upfront in its advertising about its unabashed proselytizing amid all the dazzling dance performances.
MY sister in Taiwan went home to visit us.She talked to us about what she saw and heard in Taiwan.When we were all entranced by her stories, she turned to another topic and said in Taiwan, Falun Gong practitioners spreading propaganda materials made tourists lose interest in sight-seeing.
My name is Han Xianzhi, and I am 75 years old, a villager from Henan Province. And now I am living with my son and my daughter-in-law. In the spring of 1997, I was obsessed with Falun Gong and asked my husband Lu Shoucai to learn cultivation from me. When he fell ill, I prohibited him from seeing a ...
Canadians were rightly astonished and angry when it was revealed that City of Vancouver staff consulted with the Chinese regime before drawing up Vancouver's controversial draft protest bylaw. The input was sought on the new bylaw which would effectively prevent Falun Gong practitioners from erectin...
Wu Zhimin is a reporter of Epoch Times in Hong Kong, as well as an instructor of Falun Gong in Yuen Long District. Believing in the theory that Falun Gong members’ sick is to "remove karma", Wu and her 12-year-old son refused the medical treatment when getting a high fever of 40 degrees.
Huang Jieyi is one of the principals of New Tang Dynasty Television in Hong Kong. She found herself suffering from breast cancer,but she refused treatment because of obsession with Falun Gong. On March 3,2007, she attended the Los Angeles Fa Conference, hoping Master Li to save her life.