An anthropologist who conducted fieldwork among Falun Gong practitioners explains the movement’s beliefs and why its ...

Most people write a letter in just a few minutes or maybe a few hours, if it is really important. Sheng Mei worked for two years on one of his. Mei, who is Chinese but has lived in Salt Lake City ...

Dr. Charles Lee of Menlo Park, Calif. was arrested in January after he traveled to China in an attempt to inform Chinese people about their government’s crackdown on practitioners of Falun Gong, a ...

John and Jean Li of Bethlehem frequently perform acts that could get them arrested, tortured or killed in China. Every day, they practice a system of gentle stretching exercises and meditative poses ...

OGDEN — “Pain is good,” explained David Thurston as he and his wife, Cheyenne Liu, led a small group into exercise two, Falun Standing Stance, of the five exercises that comprise the practice known as ...

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“I am here to speak out for human rights and to stop persecution of the Falun Gong,” said Gary Zhu, a computer engineer who recently graduated from University of Cincinnati. Zhu says his father in ...

As the Encyclopaedia Britannica describes it, Falun Gong or Falungong (“the Practice of the Wheel of Dharma”), also called Falundafa, is a spiritual movement founded by Li Hongzhi in 1992; its ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Falun Gong practitioners march in London, calling for an end to persecution by the Chinese Communist Party. James Willoughby/SOPA ...