• Wang Lifa: My wife has died with iniquity
    2011-12-16

    In that way my wife’s disease was kept putting off. Untill on a deep night of March, 2003, while she was meditating on bed, she suddenly tumbled headlong. When the ambulance arrived she had stopped breathing.

  • Spiritual group stopped from performing
    2011-12-14

    The performing of Falun Gong practitioners was stopped for others' complain at an opening ceremony of a new battlefront in the parking lot of Asian City, a large shopping center and food court, according to Cityweekly.net on November 30, 2011.

  • A former Falun Gong backbone on the road to ruin
    2011-12-14

    In the spring of 2007, Li Hongkui died at his 63. Ten-year-practice not only makes his disease incurable, but also fails to rescue him from the jaws of death. On his deathbed, he was still waiting for Master Li to help him receive the so-called “Consummation”.

  • What is Qi Gong (or Chi Kung) and how does it compare to Yoga?
    2011-12-12

    Qigong (pronounced chee-gong) is an ancient Chinese mind-body discipline, practiced by millions of people of all ages and physical conditions to promote health, happiness, and long-life. Like Yoga, qigong is a very broad umbrella, including many different traditions and types of exercises.

  • She looks for Falun in her mom's ashes
    2011-12-09

    I'm Chen Manyi, 47-year-old, living in the Block No.52-4 in the Dongyuan Housing Estate of Liaoning Province. I am a worker of the Fuxin Gas Company of Liaoning. Today, I would like to share a story I've experienced at my neighbor's funeral on June 26, 2009, which really gave me a shock.

  • Who kills Bai Xiaoying? (photo)
    2011-12-07

    On December 7, 2010, Bai Xiaoying, a retiree from North China Oilfield General Hospital, died of multiple organ failure caused by white plague after rescue for 18 hours. In the same month, a Falun Gong website published an article, saying that Bai Xiaoying was persecuted to death.

  • The 5th International Symposium on Cultic Studies to be held in Bangkok
    2011-12-05

    The fifth session of International Symposium on Cultic Studies will be held in Bangkok from December 15 to 17, 2011. This symposium is jointly sponsored by the Institute of Religious Studies of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and the Assumption University of Thailand.

  • For the sake of culture?
    2011-12-01

    However, one thing that really gets me is this little political stab they included. Makes me wonder if that was done at the behest of the performers themselves, or if it was done to try and appeal to our Red Star-hating democratic senses?

  • Zhao Guifeng: I hatched a plot to discard Liu Renfang's corpse to destroy evidence
    2011-11-29

    Ten years later, I write out this matter because I can't bear with the torment of the mind and conscience. I want to make an apology to the decedent Liu Renfang and her family, and I hope all the Falun Gong addicts can learn a lesson from me and get a clear understanding of the evil of Li Hongzhi an...

  • Canadian court rules that polygamy ban is constitutional
    2011-11-28

    British Columbia's highest court ruled Wednesday that Canada's 121-year-old criminal law banning polygamy is constitutional. The ruling stemmed from a failed prosecution in 2009 of two leaders of a breakaway Mormon sect in British Columbia and might have implications for followers of other religions...

  • Legal expert evaluation of the materials, related to the activities of Dnepropetrovsk regional social organization "The Falun Dafa system"
    2011-11-25

    From the socio-psychological point of view "The Falun Dafa" doctrine is a variant of a pseudo religious exoteric teaching, non-traditional for the Ukrainian mentality. The basis of this teaching is made up of a mixture of pseudo religious and pseudo scientific principles.

  • The irony of Shen Yun's anti-Communist propaganda
    2011-11-24

    Shen Yun’s shows reveal that, for this company, the essence of Chinese heritage is not static, and is open to modernization and Westernization. While Western instruments often provide harmonies for melodies played on Chinese instruments, the large dance numbers reveal the influence of Hollywood and ...

  • Decision reached on harmful politicized cults around the world
    2011-11-23

    From August 27 to 29, the Center for Inter-religious, Traditionalist, and Ecumenical Studies (CITES), in conjunction with RidingTheTiger.org, convened a conference to discuss the effects of sectarianism and political cults around the world.

  • Japan's top court upholds death sentence of cult member, ending AUM trials
    2011-11-22

    Japan's top court on Monday rejected a death sentence appeal from a leading member of the AUM Shinrikyo cult that was responsible for a series of poisonous gas attacks which killed more than 20 people in the 1990s.

  • Huang Haoxiang gets disease paroxysm on the practicing spot
    2011-11-21

    At the mention of Huang Haoxiang, Hu Huiyu, Huang’s wife, was always extremely emotional. She said her husband was killed by Falun Gong and he died by his fellow practitioners’ side, who were practicing with him. When Huang Haoxiang foamed at the mouth and fell to the ground, his fellow practitioner...