Category: Values and Tradition

Officials From Across America Commemorate World Falun Dafa Day

On the 31st anniversary of its introduction to the public, Falun Dafa has been recognized by officials and elected bodies across the United States for the spiritual values of its teachings and adherents’ contributions to communities. Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, is a spiritual practice involving meditative exercises and moral teachings rooted in traditional…


Officials From Across US Commemorate World Falun Dafa Day

On the 31st anniversary of its introduction to the public, Falun Dafa has been recognized by officials and elected bodies across the United States for the spiritual values of its teachings and adherents’ contributions to communities. Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, is a spiritual practice involving meditative exercises and moral teachings rooted in traditional…


Officials Across US Commemorate World Falun Dafa Day

On the 31st anniversary of its introduction to the public, Falun Dafa has been recognized by officials and elected bodies across the United States for its spiritual values and its adherents’ contributions to communities. Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, is a spiritual practice involving meditative exercises and moral teachings rooted in traditional Chinese beliefs…


Falun Gong Adherents Celebrate Faith in Truth, Compassion, Tolerance

Jennie Sheeks was concerned about the suffering of others from a young age. “It pained me. I was never comfortable pursuing my own happiness in life, knowing that others were suffering,” Sheeks, now a 45-year-old communications director at a nonprofit, told The Epoch Times. In high school in Philadelphia, she often bought an extra sandwich…


Poll: Majority of Americans Say Civility Has Declined

A vast majority of Americans believe that civility in society is worse than it was a decade ago, blaming social media and general media for the decline, according to the American Bar Association’s (ABA) annual poll released on April 27. Fully 85 percent of the 1,000 respondents of the “ABA Survey of Civic Literacy 2023”…


This Easter, Faithful Christians See Demons and Dark Times in America

BAKERSFIELD, Calif.—As sure as night began to settle over the big tent in Bakersfield, California, Rose Jaime believes America has fallen on profoundly dark times. “The devil is real—and so is God,” said Jaime, watching and listening as Pastor Mario Murillo delivered his sermon to more than 1,500 evangelical Christians during the Living Proof Tent…


Former NCAA Swimmer Riley Gaines Refutes SFSU Statement That Trans Activists Protested ‘Peacefully’

Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines—who said she was physically attacked at San Francisco State University (SFSU) on Thursday night after giving a speech on the issue of “Saving Women’s Sports”—rejected the SFSU’s statement that suggested transgender activists had protested “peacefully” at the event. “I had to reread that to make sure that they actually used…


Former NCAA Swimmer Riley Gaines Refutes University Statement That Trans Activists Protested ‘Peacefully’

Former NCAA swimmer Riley Gaines—who said she was physically attacked at San Francisco State University (SFSU) on Thursday night after giving a speech on the issue of “Saving Women’s Sports”—rejected the SFSU’s statement that suggested transgender activists had protested “peacefully” at the event. “I had to reread that to make sure that they actually used…


Conservative States See Surge in Bans of Child Sex Changes, 19 More States Could Join This Year

Lawmakers in conservative states are responding to the surge in minors who identify as transgender with legislation banning child sex-change procedures. So far, lawmakers in 12 states have banned child sex-change procedures. Nineteen more states have similar bills moving through the process. Yet, in at least two states—California and Minnesota—lawmakers are building momentum to pass…


Bans of Sex Changes for Minors Surge in Conservative States

Lawmakers in conservative states are responding to the surge in minors who identify as transgender with legislation banning child sex-change procedures. So far, lawmakers in 12 states have banned child sex-change procedures. Nineteen more states have similar bills moving through the process. Yet, in at least two states—California and Minnesota—lawmakers are building momentum to pass…