Falun Gong adherents held a vigil in front of the Toronto Chinese Consulate on July 15 to mark 22 years of persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and to memorialize fellow adherents who have been persecuted to death in China since 1999. “I’m here today to be a voice for the people who has lost or are losing their lives because of the genocide ongoing in China by the … Chinese Communist Party,” Ellie Khani, an immigrant who came to Canada from Turkey in 2019, told The Epoch Times. “They are killing people—anyone who has a belief—in China, whether Muslims or Christians or Falun Gong practitioners,” she said, pointing to the CCP’s persecution of people of faith. Falun Gong is a spiritual practice rooted in ancient Chinese tradition that includes meditation exercises and teachings based on the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. Also called Falun Dafa, it was introduced …