Tag: Falun Gong

Sanction Chinese Officials Involved in Human Rights Abuses: Former PM

Australia should sanction Chinese officials involved in human rights abuses against Uyghurs, says former Prime Minister Scott Morrison. “The question naturally arises whether our new sanctions regime should be applied to any Chinese nationals for human rights abuses, especially in Xinjiang,” Morrison told attendees of an Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China meeting in Tokyo on Feb….


30-Year-Old Chinese Radio Host Dies in Prison After Being Jailed For His Belief

His lips were streaked with dried blood. His chest was covered with bruises and scars, his legs battered. Footage of a 30-year-old man’s corpse, recently circulated on Twitter and confirmed by The Epoch Times, offered a glimpse of what had happened to him in a Chinese jail cell. Pang Xun, a Falun Gong practitioner, died…


Forced Organ Harvesting From Prisoners of Conscience in China Must End Now

Commentary Chinese state media have accused the U.S. government of being “hysterical,” “laughably juvenile,” and “losing its calm” after U.S. fighter jets shot down four objects, including a Chinese spy balloon, this month. Columns in China Daily, People’s Daily, and Global Times mocked the United States, opining that Washington made a “strong case that the F-22…


MPs Host Screening of Canada’s Oscar Contender for Best International Film on Parliament Hill

On Parliament Hill on Feb. 13, MPs hosted a special screening of “Eternal Spring,” an award-winning film depicting Beijing’s persecution of religious rights. The animated documentary is Canada’s selection in the category of Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards next month. Directed by Torontonian Jason Loftus and animated by acclaimed Chinese artist…


US Shoots Down 4 Objects in Just Over a Week

Four high-altitude objects were shot down in just eight days by the U.S. military. One was the Chinese spy balloon and the other three unidentified—over the United States and Canada. At the same time, Beijing says the United States has sent balloons into Chinese airspace dozens of times, something the White House promptly denied. Is…


‘How Humankind Came To Be’ Carries a Good Message for the Test of Life, Teachers Say

Mary Rose Martin, an elementary school teacher, sees life as a test and agrees that the purpose of life is to pave the way to heaven. Upon reading “How Humankind Came to Be,” an article Falun Gong founder Li Hongzhi published in The Epoch Times last month, she wrote to the newspaper: “Living in the…


Cancer-Stricken Elderly Chinese Woman Sentenced Again for Her Faith, Denied Medical Parole

A persecuted Chinese woman arrested again for her faith was denied medical parole after being diagnosed with breast cancer. The police told her family that she doesn’t meet the criteria for parole. Jiang Shumei, 67, from Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, was at her home with Xu Zhenying, 76, on Feb. 26, 2021, when the police…


Chinese Community Find Hope and Meaning in Lunar New Year Message

In the past, when Chinese people wondered about the meaning of life, they looked to the Confucian classics or brought their questions to monasteries and temples. But this tradition has been decimated, a result of the Communist Party’s decadeslong campaign to eradicate traditional beliefs and replace them with Marxist-Lenninist ideologies of materialism and atheism. Nowadays,…


Chinese Community Finds Hope and Meaning in Lunar New Year Message

In the past, when Chinese people wondered about the meaning of life, they looked to the Confucian classics or brought their questions to monasteries and temples. But this tradition has been decimated, a result of the Communist Party’s decadeslong campaign to eradicate traditional beliefs and replace them with Marxist-Lenninist ideologies of materialism and atheism. Nowadays,…


Pastor Who Witnessed His Own Birth: The Creator Cares for Humanity Beyond Our Understanding

Walt Scotson, a retired pastor from Billings, Montana, experienced something incredible that allowed him to take an open and inclusive view of other people’s beliefs. Scotson said he witnessed his own birth and since then has felt an unseen element impacting his life in powerful and deeply spiritual ways. “I had a unique experience when…