The Epoch Times: Chinese Organisation Honours Falun Gong
For the first time since the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999, a Chinese organisation has recognised the contributions Falun Gong presents to the Chinese culture and community.
For the first time since the persecution of Falun Gong began in 1999, a Chinese organisation has recognised the contributions Falun Gong presents to the Chinese culture and community.
A celestial phenomenon is an indicator of what can happen in the human world. Unusual phenomena will appear, and natural disasters will happen as a warning of what will occur in the human world if it operates against the will of heaven.
On April 7, 2007, the New York Falun Dafa cultivation experience sharing conference was solemnly held in the Manhattan Sheraton Hotel. Approximately four thousand practitioners gathered to share cultivation experiences.
The Falun Dafa Information Center has learned that 46-year-old Ms. Zhang Lianying was beaten into a coma on March 20, 2007, while detained at the Beijing Women’s Labor Camp.
On March 28, 2007, Falun Gong practitioner Ma Hui and her 8-year-old daughter Ma Jingjing, who had earlier been granted UN Refugee Status in St. Petersburg, Russia, were taken away from their home by six officers from the Deportation Department of the Immigration Bureau in St. Petersburg, Russia. On the night of March 28, one Russian policewoman and several Chinese government officers forced Ma Hui and Ma Jingjing to board Flight FV-215 from St. Petersburg to Beijing, and deported them to China. The plane took off at 19:50 from St. Petersburg.
On the evening of March 28, 2007, ABC-TV’s flagship current affairs program “Lateline” reported in prime time that the New Tang Dynasty Television’s (NTDTV) Chinese New Year Spectacular shows would be staged in Sydney on March 29. The program also exposed the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Consulate-General in Sydney interfering with the show.
Many Australians think of China in two ways. The first image is that of an emerging global economic powerhouse, rapidly rising on the back of a colossal working population. The other is of a people increasingly demanding greater political freedom after half a century under a stifling authoritarian regime.
After eight successful shows in four cities, the Divine Performing Arts played in Sydney on March 29, 2007.