As the Chinese regime’s persecution of the spiritual practice Falun Gong enters its 25th year, U.S. lawmakers and former officials decried the heinousness of Beijing’s ongoing abuses, while highlighting that its repression has even reached America’s shores.
Despite enduring such brutality, Falun Gong practitioners in China should hold fast to their faith and know that Americans will always stand for freedom of belief, U.S. lawmakers said.
On July 20, 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched a nationwide campaign to eliminate the faith group. Before that, Falun Gong, a practice rooted in traditional Chinese beliefs about spiritual development involving meditative exercises and the core tenet of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance, had attracted a huge following in China with an estimated 70 million to 100 million adherents….