WASHINGTON—More than 1,500 Falun Gong practitioners gathered on the National Mall on July 21 to call for an end to the Chinese communist regime’s persecution of the faith group. With the U.S. Capitol in the background, speakers at a rally highlighted the growing awareness of the forced organ harvesting of detained Falun Gong practitioners and […]
NTD and The Epoch Times will livestream the International Religious Freedom Summit 2022 panel “Pandemic, Persecution, and Pushback—Trends and Analysis from the Suppression of Falun Gong” on June 30, 2022, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. ET. Access the livestream on this page, and also at EpochTV. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is an ancient mind-and-body […]
It was November 2020, nine months after then 22-year-old Carolina Avendano began living by herself, and eight months after her city Calgary, Canada, entered into a lockdown that shut schools and most businesses. She was utterly alone. The pandemic restrictions meant she couldn’t visit her sister despite living in the same city. The prolonged isolation […]
On World Falun Dafa Day, Falun Gong practitioners in mainland China expressed their gratitude to the founder of the spiritual practice, Li Hongzhi. May 13 is World Falun Dafa Day, and also the birthday of Li. Li introduced the spiritual practice in China on May 13, 1992, and within two years it was practiced by tens […]
TAIPEI, Taiwan—About 5,400 people from all walks of life gathered in Taipei’s iconic Liberty Square on Dec. 5, in an annual tradition known as character formation that shines a light on an ongoing persecution in China. Dressed in yellow, blue, or white, the participants were separated into groups before they filed orderly to sit on […]
A 60-year-old woman was arrested and detained without trial after a police officer found brochures in her possession during a random identification check in Yushu, China. The brochures contained material considered sensitive to the Chinese regime. Ning Tingyun was on her way to visit her daughter in Shanghai from her home in Harbin, Heilongjiang province. She was […]
An otherwise normal Tuesday morning for 7-year-old Gage turned upside down when his school teacher called everyone back inside and told them to hide under their desks on Nov. 14. The teacher locked the classroom door, seconds before someone tried to enter. Gage didn’t know that the school’s administration had locked down the building after […]
A tech company claims to have bypassed Apple’s latest 3D face recognition security with a $150 hack. The 3D face recognition is pitched as the latest advancement in phone security, using 3D infra-red scans in addition to powerful AI software. Meanwhile, a woman has posted a video of a much-lower tech breach of her $1000 […]
Millions of children in China have been left as orphans or had family members persecuted due to the illegal crackdown on freedom of belief in the communist-run country. People who practice Falun Gong, an ancient spiritual practice which teaches one to improve oneself and help others, are denied their basic human rights and have endured […]
Since 1999, China has experienced the most concerted campaign of propaganda and disinformation that the world has ever seen, one using every communication channel and the communist regime’s entire mass media arsenal. The key target of this campaign has been people who follow the ancient spiritual practice of Falun Gong. In the most literal sense, […]
The energy emitted by people who have reached an advanced level in meditation practice has been shown by multiple studies to exceed normal human levels by hundreds or thousands of times. Here’s a look at a few such studies. 1. Gamma Waves Off the Charts Neuroscientist Richard Davidson’s 2004 study on the energy emitted by […]
Anastasia Lin, the beauty queen and human rights advocate against mass organ harvesting carried out by the Chinese regime, has spoken out after she was allegedly silenced. The Miss World Canada winner said that the Chinese Communist Party has killed Falun Gong practitioners for their organs since the persecution of Falun Gong began in July […]
One morning in late 1999, the workers of Shengyang Heavy Machine Factory were met with a surprise. Instead of relaying the usual announcements, the company loudspeakers were on the warpath. “Traitor!” they yelled. “Evil!” they screamed. The object of their malice was junior sales manager Li Weixun. The workers who knew her could not believe […]
China’s highest judicial bodies released a new legal interpretation on Jan. 25, in what appears to be directed at the long-persecuted Falun Gong spiritual practice. The document gives a definition of the term “evil cult” and stipulates that citizens may be sentenced for activities such as distributing pamphlets. Ever since July 1999, when China’s communist […]
At 40 years old, Steven Le currently works as a financial consultant at a bank in Melbourne, Australia. Having developed great relationships with his clients, Steven has been honored as one of his company’s best employees. Nobody could have imagined that many years ago, Steven was a short-tempered, troubled young man, who always fought with […]
As part of a week of World Falun Dafa Day celebrations in New York City, hundreds of people gathered in Central Park on May 10 to do the exercises together. Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong) is mind-body practice—in addition to practicing 5 gentle exercises, practitioners attempt to live their lives according to 3 […]
BY: JESSICA BEUKER I find it difficult to imagine a world where my core beliefs are subject to persecution. A world where I have to walk on egg shells every single day. Where I can’t freely say what I think and practice what I believe for the very real fear that my life or family […]
Christiane Teich, who prefers to be called “Chris,” made her pilgrimage to India over the course of 30 years, in search of something. Originally from Germany, Chris lived in Africa and South America before making her way to India. Throughout her travels, Chris had tried many different kinds of spiritual practices, including qigong, transcendental meditation, […]
A fingerprint belonging to a prison guard was among the 15,000 that were put on a petition in China’s northeastern Heilongjiang Province to protest against the wrongful death of a practitioner of Falun Gong—a type of meditation that has been persecuted by the Chinese regime for years. The guard apparently works at Jiamusi Prison, where […]
