Tag: persecution

Religion: The Greatest Threat to Totalitarian Regimes?

On this episode of International Reporters Roundtable we shine a light on the persecution of people of faith. It’s not only from oppressive authorities. A dangerous trend is surfacing in free societies. Three groups stand out: Christians, Jewish communities, and Falun Gong practitioners. Christians, murdered in parts of Africa and increasingly suppressed elsewhere, are now…


PREMIERE ~ Religion: The Greatest Threat to Totalitarian Regimes?

On this episode of International Reporters Roundtable we shine a light on the persecution of people of faith. It’s not only from oppressive authorities. A dangerous trend is surfacing in free societies. Three groups stand out: Christians, Jewish communities, and Falun Gong practitioners. Christians, murdered in parts of Africa and increasingly suppressed elsewhere, are now…


Israelis Call for an End to the Persecution of Falun Gong in China

HAIFA, Israel—A rally was held in front of the Chinese embassy in Tel Aviv on July 20 to call for an end to the 24-year persecution of Falun Gong in China. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual discipline that teaches the values of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance along with five slow-moving meditative…


A ‘Cold Genocide’ of 100 Million People Is Happening in Plain Sight: Levi Browde

Falun Gong practitioners have endured 24 years of persecution. In 1998, an official survey by the Chinese communist regime estimated that 70 million to 100 million people were practicing Falun Gong in China. A new report details the current state of the persecution in China. Here to speak with us about what this looks like…


Candlelight Vigil Remembers Victims of CCP’s Persecution of Falun Gong

WASHINGTON—As the night fell on July 20, over 1,500 Falun Gong adherents sat on the National Mall, carrying candles to commemorate those who have died as a result of the Chinese regime’s repression. Liang Guiyu, 53, a resident of New York’s Flushing, originally from northeast China’s Shandong Province, was one of them. July 20 is…


Washington Rally Calls for End to CCP’s 24-Year Persecution of Falun Gong

WASHINGTON—An estimated 1,500 people congregated together near Washington’s National Mall to call for an end to communist China’s brutal persecution of the spiritual group Falun Gong which has entered its 25th year—an atrocity advocates said is too critical for Americans to overlook. At a rally held near the Capitol, U.S. rights advocates and experts raised…


The Shame of the Silence of the West

Commentary There is a strategic price that the West will pay—and is paying already—for its failure to take a moral stand against the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for its policy of genocide and other forms of persecution against its own people. The West won the Cold War because it had built global prestige and, therefore,…


A Harrowing 24 Years: Living Under the CCP’s Ongoing War Against Falun Gong

In her 34 years, Doria Liu almost never saw her mother cry—not even when her mother recounted suffering harrowing torture at the hands of Chinese authorities in a bid to break her faith. But during a video call on May 6, when Ms. Liu showed her mother a photo of her and her husband holding…


Falun Gong Practitioners Recount a Harrowing 24 Years of Withstanding CCP Persecution

In her 34 years, Doria Liu almost never saw her mother cry—not even when her mother recounted suffering harrowing torture at the hands of Chinese authorities in a bid to break her faith. But during a video call on May 6, when Ms. Liu showed her mother a photo of her and her husband holding…


‘Keep the Faith’: US Lawmakers Share Hopeful Message With Falun Gong Adherents on CCP Persecution Anniversary

As the Chinese regime’s persecution of the spiritual practice Falun Gong enters its 25th year, U.S. lawmakers and former officials decried the heinousness of Beijing’s ongoing abuses, while highlighting that its repression has even reached America’s shores. Despite enduring such brutality, Falun Gong practitioners in China should hold fast to their faith and know that…