Category: Falun Gong

Countries Should Do More to End China’s ‘Horrific’ Forced Organ Harvesting: Experts

A group of international advocates are calling on countries including the United States to do more to hold China accountable for its state-sanctioned practice of harvesting organs from living prisoners of conscience. “On the issue of forced organ harvesting, the international community has remained silent despite the evidence for far too long,” said Kristina Olney,…


Chinese Regime Burns Religious Books, Jails Believers in War Against Faith

China’s communist party has continued its broad attack on faith through the pandemic, burning and trashing religious books while jailing spiritual adherents for possessing religious literature. While the officially atheist Chinese regime formally recognizes five religions: Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism, and Christianity, it imposes strict rules over how these religious organizations should operate, and often…


In War Against Faith, Chinese Regime Burns Religious Books, Jails Believers

China’s communist party has continued its broad attack on faith through the pandemic, burning and trashing religious books while jailing spiritual adherents for possessing religious literature. While the officially atheist Chinese regime formally recognizes five religions: Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism, and Christianity, it imposes strict rules over how these religious organizations should operate, and often…


Third Virginia County Passes Resolution to Condemn China’s Organ Transplant Abuses

Another Virginia county has adopted a resolution to curb organ transplant tourism to China, making it the third one since January to take a stance against Beijing’s forced organ harvesting practices. “It’s a travesty and completely unacceptable,” said Yesli Vega, supervisor for Coles district in Prince William County, who initiated the bill. Allegations that the…


Falun Gong Practitioner Dies After Becoming Comatose in Chinese Prison

A Falun Gong practitioner has died in China after falling into a coma during incarceration, the most recent known victim under the Chinese regime’s relentless persecution of the spiritual faith. Yao Xinren, from China’s eastern province of Shandong, was arrested in July 2019 from his workplace. He suffered a brain hemorrhage in April 2020 while…


For Millions in China, Persecution Casts a Shadow on New Year Celebration

NEW YORK—Around this time every year, what Gao Hongmei looks forward to the most is a phone call. In a conversation that would sometimes stretch for hours, she would exchange Lunar New Year greetings with her mother in China—whom she last saw face-to-face 12 years ago before she left the country— and chat about other…


Adherents of Spiritual Discipline Worldwide Send Lunar New Year Greetings to Founder

Thousands around the world expressed well wishes and greetings to Mr. Li Hongzhi, founder of the spiritual practice Falun Gong, to mark the start of a new Lunar New Year, which falls on Feb. 12 this year. It has long been a tradition for the Chinese to send new year greetings to their loved ones…


Falun Gong Adherents Worldwide Send Lunar New Year Greetings to Founder

Thousands around the world expressed well wishes and greetings to Mr. Li Hongzhi, founder of the spiritual practice Falun Gong, to mark the start of a new Lunar New Year, which falls on Feb. 12 this year. It has long been a tradition for the Chinese to send new year greetings to their loved ones…


‘We Should Thank God’ Young People Are ‘Confronting’ the CCP: Aussie Senators Speak Out After Inquiry

An Australian Senate inquiry’s report on issues facing diaspora communities has recommended that the government consider increasing awareness of the National Security Hotline as a means of reporting foreign interference, particularly from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). While delivering the report to the Senate, the committee’s chair, Labor Senator Kimberley Kitching, said foreign interference proved…


School in China Requires Students to Disclose Their Religious Beliefs

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) authorities in one Chinese city are mandating that school students disclose their religious beliefs, according to a Chinese parent who recently moved to the United States. He spoke with The Epoch Times and expressed concern that China could be seeing another wave of religious persecution. Yan Tao, a new Chinese immigrant…