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Canada: Falun Dafa Practitioners Participate in National Day Celebrations
Falun Dafa practitioners in Canada were invited to celebrations of the National Day in Toronto, Vancouver, and Banff. Falun Dafa, also called Falun Gong, is a spiritual meditation practice that originated in China. It is now practiced by more than 100 million people in more than 100 countries and regions around the world. Toronto…
Read MoreFalun Gong Waist Drum Team Performs in Philadelphia Independence Day Parade
As the birthplace of the Declaration of Independence and the first capital of the United States, Philadelphia’s annual Independence Day celebration is grand and lasts for a week. The Falun Gong group’s waist drum team was invited to perform in the Philadelphia Independence Day parade on July 4, 2018, making this their 18th year of…
Read MoreGermany: Elected Officials in Lunen Learn Falun Gong Exercises at Cultural Festival
Falun Gong practitioners in Germany participated in the 35th Cultural Festival on Willy-Brandt-Platz in Lunen on June 30, 2018. They told about the benefits of practicing Falun Gong and demonstrated the five exercises on stage. Elected officials and local residents followed along to learn them. On this beautiful sunny Saturday, crowds of people converged on…
Read MoreToronto, Canada: Learning Ancient Meditation at Annual Strawberry Festival
Toronto Falun Gong practitioners participated in the Whitchurch-Stouffville Strawberry Festival on June 30. Many people were happy to learn about Falun Gong during the Canada Day celebrations and some learned the exercises at the event. Located about 30 miles north of Toronto, the festival tradition started in 1984 and has become one of the major…
Read MoreOil Painting: Reflection
Canvas, 32 1⁄4 inches wide and 55 inches high In the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), no one knows exactly how many have been persecuted to death. Practitioners all over the world often hold candlelight vigils in front of Chinese embassies and consulates to commemorate fellow practitioners who…
Read More“Code of Revelation” Moves Audience in New York Screening
Code of Revelation, the first production of New Century Film, was screened on April 29, 2018, to 100 residents in Orange County, New York. The film won the Grand Prize Award at the Canada International Film Festival in March 2018. The film is based on the testimony of a police officer in China who witnessed…
Read More“This Is What I Really Need!”- Introducing Falun Gong at Community Events
Falun Gong practitioners in Melbourne, Australia participated in community events in two nearby towns, Violet Town and Rutherglen, on June 9 and June 10, 2018. They introduced Falun Gong, a traditional Chinese cultivation practice, and exposed the communist regime’s persecution of the practice in China. The monthly market in Violet Town is the oldest and…
Read MoreCornwall, UK: Introducing Falun Gong at the Golowan Festival
Falun Gong practitioners participated in the Golowan Festival, a musical and cultural celebration of midsummer, for the eleventh time in Penzance, a coastal city in Cornwall, UK, on June 23-24, 2018. The practitioners set up a stand early in the morning, where they provided information about Falun Gong. They demonstrated the exercises, distributed Falun Gong…
Read MoreBulgaria: Citizens Learn the Facts about Falun Gong on Bulgarian Culture Day
May 24 is a major Bulgarian holiday dedicated to Bulgarian education and culture and to the Cyrillic alphabet. Falun Gong practitioners in Sofia, Bulgaria, took the opportunity to raise awareness among citizens and tourists about the brutal and not so well known persecution of Falun Gong in China. The practitioners displayed banners on the busiest…
Read MoreMaster Li Hongzhi Lectures to Ten Thousand Falun Gong Practitioners at DC Conference
Nearly ten thousand practitioners from 56 countries and areas attended the 2018 Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference held at the Capital One Arena in Washington DC on Thursday, June 21, 2018. Master Li Hongzhi arrived at the conference at 2:00 p.m., and lectured for one hour and 45 minutes, including a question and answer…
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