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[Clearwisdom.net] Obzor (Ukraine) Newspaper: Report on World Falun Dafa Day

June 01, 2008

“Sixteen years ago, Mr. Li Hongzhi began to spread Falun Gong in Changchun. Falun Gong is good for both body and mind. It is also referred to as Falun Dafa. The Chinese Communist Party launched the large scale persecution of Falun Gong because it was afraid of the popularity of Falun Gong and saw it as a threat to its political power. The Party feared it would lose control of the people’s thoughts and minds.”

(Clearwisdom.net) On May 15, 2008, the Ukrainian daily newspaper Obzor reported on Ukraine Falun Gong practitioners’ celebration of World Falun Dafa Day.

The report stated: “Falun Gong practitioners held activities in the Kiev town center, celebrating World Falun Dafa Day in the square. Drummers in traditional Chinese dress, colorful lotus flowers, and exercises demonstrations were presented.

“Sixteen years ago, Mr. Li Hongzhi began to spread Falun Gong in Changchun. Falun Gong is good for both body and mind. It is also referred to as Falun Dafa. The Chinese Communist Party launched the large scale persecution of Falun Gong because it was afraid of the popularity of Falun Gong and saw it as a threat to its political power. The Party feared it would lose control of the people’s thoughts and minds.”

Chinese version available

Source: https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2008/6/1/97786.html

Editor’s Note: Dear readers, do you know that Falun Dafa, originally from China, is currently practiced by people in over 100 countries? But in China, since Jul. 20, 1999, Falun Gong is defamed, slandered and persecuted due to the Chinese Communist Party’s fear of Falun Gong’s rapidly growing popularity. Jiang Zemin, former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), perceived the spiritual discipline’s growing popularity as a threat to the CCP’s atheistic ideology.

To learn more about the persecution Falun Gong practitioners are subjected to in China, visit http://faluninfo.net/.

For more information about the practice or to download Zhuan Falun, visit: www.falundafa.org. All books, exercise music, resources, and instructions are available completely free of charge.