(Clearwisdom.net)
Spotlight News
Falun Gong practitioners in Germany and Israel call for help in rescuing Xiong Wei. "During the time Xiong Wei studied in Germany, we got to know her and were happy to be with her. She is a pleasant young lady who loved to help others. She used the principle of Truth, Compassion, Tolerance to direct her peaceful life. How can this lifestyle be the reason to arrest and torture a person anywhere in the world? Shouldn't the world's people all pay attention and give support to this issue?"
Practitioners Exchange Insights
Improvement through hunger strike: accepting our detention is also cooperating with the evil, therefore many practitioners resorted to hunger strike. Hunger strike is not suicide; it's the display of righteous thoughts and righteous actions; hunger strike is not the only way, yet it is undoubtedly a righteous way. During the process of undertaking a hunger strike, we cannot pursue any supernatural feeling. The difference between man and god is not the display of supernatural capabilities; it is the tremendous difference between their xinxing [mind and heart nature].
The Truth of the Persecution
On August 9, Dafa practitioner Li Guilan was forcefully taken away from a hairstyling shop in Jimo City, Shandong Province by the residence committee members. They also threatened to send her to Jinan City to be brainwashed. The arrest of Li Guilan caused a great difficulty for her family. Her son lost his mother's protection; her husband, who had been staying at home to recuperate after a traffic accident, has no one to look after him; her old mother-in-law lost her loving concern. Her family also lost source of income, which has made for one misfortune after another.
Science exploration
On October 3, the Food and Drug Administrative Bureau of the United States announced that the gene treatment experiment on "X-Linked Form Severe Combined Immune Deficiency Disease" (XSCID), developed within the United States, is suspected of being unsafe. The reason is that in an experiment carried out in France, child patients developed a disease similar to leukemia.
