Come to sit with us to end Communist China's persecution of Falun Gong

300 Beach Drive Northeast,St. Petersburg FL 33701

16 July, 2022

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Falun Gong (also called Falun Dafa) is an ancient spiritual practice in the Buddhist tradition. Falun Gong combines meditation and gentle exercises (similar to yoga or tai chi) with a moral philosophy centered on the tenets of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Tolerance (or in Chinese, Zhen 真, Shan 善, Ren 忍). Falun Gong practitioners aspire to live by these principles in their daily lives. Just seven years after being introduced to the public in China, Falun Gong went from being widely popular throughout the country to becoming the number one enemy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In July 1999, a brutal campaign targeted the 100 million people practicing Falun Gong as well as their relatives, friends and coworkers. In a draconian crackdown not seen since the Cultural Revolution, book burnings, mass-arrests and imprisonment, torture and forced reeducation was unleashed across China. Virtually everyone in China was either targeted or forced to be complicit. It’s one of the largest campaigns of religious persecution happening in the world over the past 20 years. Millions of innocent people in China have been fired from their jobs, expelled from school, jailed, tortured, or killed simply for practicing Falun Gong (see Key Statistics for more details). For the tens of millions of people who practice Falun Gong today in China, each day they live at risk of being taken away by Chinese authorities to be jailed, tortured—or worse. According to many legal and academic experts, along with notable investigative journalists, the on-going, nationwide campaign in China to eliminate Falun Gong, a spiritual practice of 100 million people, constitutes a modern-day genocide. Estimates from multiple separate, independent reports indicate tens of thousands (possibly hundreds of thousands) of Falun Gong practitioners may have been killed in order to extract their vital organs, which are used to fuel a booming organ transplantation business in China. You can help stop this brutal persecution. Come to join us this Saturday!