Category: Falun Gong persecution

After Nearly 22 Years, Persecution of Falun Gong Still Continues in China

Commentary As I browsed through the last few days of reports on Minghui.org, a U.S.-based website that documents the persecution of Falun Gong, I saw that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is still relentlessly persecuting Falun Gong practitioners for their faith, creating more and more human tragedies. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is…


A Painter’s Warning From CCP Political Prison

Commentary Recently, the armed conflict between Israel and Pakistan in the Gaza Strip has aroused a lot of attention and discussion. Reports in the Western media are on the left, middle, and right, depending on the author’s viewpoint. I was impressed by a comment that might be more correct. The author said that what happened…


Book That Exposes Beijing’s 20-year Persecution of Falun Gong Wins Benjamin Franklin Award

On May 14, the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) declared at its award ceremony that the 2021 silver winner of The Bill Fisher Award for Best First Book, Nonfiction, of the Benjamin Franklin Award went to Minghui Publishing for its book Minghui Report: The 20-Year Persecution of Falun Gong in China. Established in 1983, the IBPA…


On China’s Memorial Day, Let’s Remember Those Killed for Their Faith

Commentary China’s Qingming festival (Tomb-Sweeping Day or Chinese Memorial Day) fell on April 4 this year. It is the day that Chinese people visit the gravesites of their ancestors and loved ones. To commemorate this special occasion, my son and I drove more than 60 miles to his mother’s grave. She was brutally persecuted 11…


Opinion: On China’s Memorial Day, Let’s Remember Those Killed for Their Faith

Commentary China’s Qingming festival (Tomb-Sweeping Day or Chinese Memorial Day) falls on April 4 this year. It is the day that Chinese people visit the gravesites of their ancestors and loved ones. To commemorate this special occasion, my son and I drove more than 60 miles to his mother’s grave. She was brutally persecuted 11…


‘It Robs Us of Our Humanity’: Speakers at International Conference Condemn Beijing’s Illicit Organ Harvesting, Call for Action

Over 100 organizations from around the world came together this week in an online conference to shine a light on one of the Chinese Communist Party’s most egregious crimes—killing prisoners of conscience to supply China’s lucrative organ transplantation industry. According to the organizers of the Feb. 24 event, which was co-hosted by the International Coalition…


Human Rights Violations in China: World Must Form Alliances, Impose Sanctions, and Unite Against Beijing Regime, Webinar Hears

China’s lucrative market and economic opportunities have kept the West distracted from—or tolerant of—its human rights violations, but 2020 saw people waking up to the severity of the matter and the communist regime’s broader threat to the world, an online conference heard. Experts on human rights and international affairs came together on Jan. 14 in…


Finding Truth, Finding Compassion, Finding Courage

Imagine being jailed, persecuted, and tortured for more than a decade. Imagine having your tortured sister’s lifeless body being withheld from you for almost 20 years, by the very people who tortured you. Imagine your school-age nephew being kidnapped to force you to sign over your sister’s body to authorities. Now imagine having the grace…