If I knew this day would come, when I could not talk to my mom on Mother's Day, or even find out if she was safe and unharmed, I would have cherished every single moment I spent with her.
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Behind the April 25, 1999, gathering of 10,000 Falun Gong practitioners in Beijing
Epoch Times Staff Apr 22, 2009
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By ALEXA OLESEN – 9 hours ago
BEIJING (AP) — A musician dies in police custody, a lawyer is beaten, an aid worker abandons China after 10 years of persecution — the stories are the human toll behind China's decade-long campaign to wipe out Falun Gong, a spiritual movement that the government calls an evil cult.
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By Gu Xiaohua & Liang Xin
Epoch Times Staff
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By Feiming
(Clearwisdom.net) "Recall that earlier generations faced down communism and fascism not just with missiles and tanks, but with sturdy alliances and enduring convictions," President Barack Obama said in his inaugural speech.
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(Clearwisdom.net) As the Chinese New Year approaches (January 26), Divine Performing Arts (DPA) held two shows at SUNY-Purchase College's Performing Arts Center on January 23 and will hold a series of shows at Radio City Music Hall, in New York, at the State Theater in New Brunswick, New Jersey and at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark from January 24 to 27. Through these performances, audiences will enjoy the essence of the 5,000-year-old Chinese culture.
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The International Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance Art Exhibition is being held in Chilung, Taiwan beginning on January 14, 2009, and shows for one month. This exhibition of paintings has been held in more than forty countries around the world. The paintings are by a group of accomplished artists with different backgrounds from Canada, US, and Taiwan.The opening ceremony of the exhibition was held on January 15. Chang Tung-jung, mayor of Chilung City, Yang Chia-chieh, director of Cultural Bureau, Councilor Cai Shi-ying, Lian Hai-sheng, principal of Chonghe Primary School, Lai Li-wen, principal of Yuemei Primary School, Huang Mao-song, chairman of the 300F16 branch of the International Association of Lions Clubs, and many invited guests attended the ceremony.
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By a practitioner from Europe
(Clearwisdom.net) Co-hosted by Reporters Without Borders, the Liberal Party group in the European Parliament and the Taiwan Democratic Foundation, the 2008 International Conference on Human Rights in China convened at the European Parliament Headquarters in Brussels on October 2. The main goal of the conference was to appraise the human rights situation in China after the Olympic games, and to adopt a report for the United Nations to examine the human rights abuses by the Chinese Communist regime. Twelve International Human Rights organizations and several veteran European Parliament members attended the conference. In the seminar on the topic of freedom of religion and belief, representatives from the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG), Friends of Tibet, the Uyghur World Congress and other organizations made speeches exposing the recent abuse of religion and belief by the Chinese Communist regime. The subject of Falun Gong received wide attention.
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