• Politics and art blend in contentious Chinese show
    2011-09-14

    To those many who will rightly choose to see this performance with its political overtones, do so, I would urge, with an open but not supine mind. There is a long history of politically activist art. The issue is how deftly politics and art are blended. Misjudge the balance and you defeat both objec...

  • Polygamist leader sentenced to life in prison
    2011-09-13

    The head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Warren Jeffs wrote in his journal "If the world knew what I was doing, they would hang me from the highest tree."

  • Sick of the Falun Gong
    2011-09-08

    If there is anything you can truly rely on it is that all gradients of American politics can come together to attack China. And its alleged human rights violations against “Falun Gong” members.

  • Scientologists threaten to sue cult victim group
    2011-09-07

    THE Church of Scientology has threatened to sue and claim punitive damages against a volunteer organisation that helps the victims of cults and their families.

  • Wang Sugui: My husband jumped to his death for practicing Falun Gong (photo)
    2011-09-05

    On May 29, 2006, my husband jumped off the top floor of our living building and died. I was shocked to see the badly mutilated body of my husband. Is this the Consummation we were trying hard to gain? My husband wrote in the suicide note that, "I end my life because of the incurable disease caused i...

  • "My body was possessed by Master’s spirit”
    2011-09-02

    Cai Rongfen was introduced to Falun Gong by neighbors in 1997 when she had just retired and had nothing to do at home. At the beginning, she deemed Falun Gong as a kind of Qigong which could strengthen her health, and joined the group without much thought.

  • Guru guilty of causing emotional harm in sweatlodge deaths
    2011-08-31

    A jury found self-help guru James Ray guilty on Thursday of causing emotional harm to the families of three people who died following a sweat lodge ceremony in Arizona nearly two years ago.

  • Religion studies expert's estimate of the religious status of Li Hongzhi's "Falun Dafa" doctrine
    2011-08-29

    Particularly, regarding to all traditional trends of Buddhism and Taoism, Li Hongzhi's "Falun Dafa" can be defined as a heretical sect awhile regarding to all other religions, Abrahamistic religions, such as(Judaism, Christianity, Islam)included it may be concerned as an absolutely antagonistic reli...

  • Chen Mingxia: I say "no" to lies compounded by Falun Gong
    2011-08-26

    In those days when I was cultivating Falun Gong, neither exhortations of the family nor the public voices against Falun Gong turned me back and dent my faith in cultivation. However, its organization repeatedly forced me to tell lies, which made me awoke to my error completely.

  • Russian court bans Scientology books
    2011-08-24

    A court in a Moscow suburb has banned works by the founder of the Church of Scientology, officials said Thursday. The Shchyolkovo court ruled that "What is Scientology?" and other books by L. Ron Hubbard "contain calls for extremist activities," the Prosecutor General's office said in a statement. ...

  • Ling Yutai: price of "Ascension in Broad Daylight"
    2011-08-22

    As an adult, I had a strong body luckily and was good at farm work. In addition, I did part-time job in slack season. There was no difficulty in living. However, I became an absolute disabled man due to obsessing with Falun Gong heresy “Ascension in Broad Daylight”.

  • Free newspaper?
    2011-08-19

    If anything, the covert manner of operation embodied in the paper is likely to alienate people, and the vast resources expended in producing it raise suspicions. The journalists involved would surely do better to work as freelances and offer straight pieces on Falun Gong and its problems to mainstre...

  • Falun Gong member Wang Qiuying sentenced
    2011-08-17

    On August 16, 2010, Shanghai Putuo District People's Court announced that Falun Gong practitioner Wang Qiuying, who committed the crime of credit card fraud, was sentenced to a term 5 years imprisonment and fined 50,000 yuan.

  • 7 indicted in slaying of boy, woman here
    2011-08-15

    Seven members of a supposed Durham-based cult known as the "Black Hebrews" have been indicted on charges involving the deaths of 5-year-old Jadon Tyrell James Higganbothan and 29-year-old Antoinetta Yvonne McKoy.

  • The CONCLUSION Of the social-psychological expert estimate of “Falun Dafa’s” religious doctrine
    2011-08-12

    The analyzed “Falun Dafa” religious doctrine has the typical features of the oriental religious and esoteric teachings, which are nontraditional in our society. Its matter is based on the statements from Buddhism and Taoism, with a touch of Confucianism, Christianity and other religions.