Archive for the 'Religious Persecution' Category

A Decade of Courage – Contributed by Peter

Posted by Catherine Hennessy on Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
 
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This is Catherine Hennessy reporting A Decade of Courage for Sound of Hope Radio Network.
The 20th day of July, 2009, is the ten-year anniversary of when the Chinese Communist Party (the CCP) began its suppression of the spiritual practice of Falun Dafa also known as Falun Gong by Physical torture and mental torture to force [...]

Breaking News – Christian Family Church members attacked by police on 1st July

Posted by Michael Anderson on Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
 
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Around 8:30 pm in the evening of July 1, Christian Family Church member Hua Hui-Qi was suddenly swarmed and beaten by over 30 mobs from Chongwen District State Security and the Public Security Bureau. At the same time, his brother Hua Hui-lin was also bashed. Then the whole family was evicted and stayed on the [...]

Breaking News – Senior Air Force Commander Yu Changxin secretly detained in Beijing

Posted by Daniel Teng on Monday, June 30th, 2008
 
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A former Falun Dafa Association member, and air-force officer Yu Changxin was secretly sentenced to eighteen years imprisonment, after the crackdown on Falun Gong began. His wife was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in a subsequent secret trial. Currently, Yu Changxin remains incarcerated at an air force base in Little Red Door Prison, in Zhaoyang [...]

Breaking News – Mosque in Uighur facing demolition for not publicing the Olympic Games

Posted by Michael Anderson on Thursday, June 26th, 2008
 
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A countryside mosque that has existed for more than 10 years in Aksu Keping County at Uighur Autonomous Region is to be demolished by the authorities with the reason being “illegal missionary activities”. The Uighur human rights organization said that the incident related to the mosque not cooperating with the Olympic publicity of the Chinese [...]

Breaking News – Family church members illegally detained in Heilongjiang

Posted by Michael Anderson on Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
 
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With the approaching Olympic Games, family Christian church members are facing a new wave of brutal oppression and persecution by the Chinese Communist Party. On June 18, 13 underground Church members in Yichuan city in Heilongjiang were violently arrested by CCP law enforcers who broke in during a gathering of friends and relatives. They were [...]

Breaking News – CCP creates Flushing incident as diversion from earthquake

Posted by Daniel Teng on Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
 
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Recently the violent incident in Flushing, New York, where the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) hired mobs to attack Falun Gong practitioners as well as volunteers at the Service Centre for Quitting the CCP, has attracted the attention of people in mainland China. They are of the opinion that the Flushing incident was the CCP’s attempt [...]

Breaking News – Chinese Consul General Boasts of Organizing Violent Mob against Falun Gong in New York

Posted by Catherine Hennessy on Sunday, June 1st, 2008
 
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To read transcript please click hereChinese Consul General Peng Keyu admitted in a phone conversation with a WOIPFLG investigator that the Chinese Consulate was involved in the hate crimes against Falun Gong practitioners in Flushing, New York.
Assailants Arrested as Mob Surrounds, Assaults Falun Gong
NEW YORK – The Falun Dafa Information Center has obtained a recorded [...]

Breaking News – A hundred Catholics in Wenzhou stopped

Posted by Daniel Teng on Monday, May 26th, 2008
 
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May 24th is the day to ‘Pray for the Chinese Catholic Church,’ which was set by the Vatican. According to the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Information Centre, the General Secretary of the underground church in Wenzhou, Jiang Sunian together with more than one hundred underground Catholics was summoned for interrogation by public security. [...]

Breaking News – Intensified crackdown by Communists on Tibetans further deteriorates the situation in Tibet

Posted by Michael Anderson on Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
 
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According to reliable sources in Mainland China, on 28th April, foreign media reporters were forbidden to enter Lhasa. The Chinese communist authorities specifically reduced deployment of the military, and police in Lhasa, and opened Sera Monastery in Lhasa that had been sieged for days while monks are allowed access to the temple. Yet, believers are [...]

Breaking News – Chinese Communist Party (CCP) forces Tibetans to write statements against the Dalai Lama – over 250 Lamas have been arrested recently

Posted by Ben Smith on Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
 
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Since the demonstrations in Tibet last month, the People’s Army have put Tibet under long-term siege. The CCP then launched an all out “patriotic education” movement in Tibet, but it was met with resistance from the Lamas. As a result, the CCP began large scale arrests of Lamas and only a few are left in [...]