![]() | ||||
|
Dickson Herald, TN: Group tackles persecution's effect on Chinese kids A dozen people at City Hall protest Communist Party's attempt to suppress Falun Gong By Jeannine F. Hunter, Staff Writer Monday, 09/12/05
A group of Chinese adults and teenagers held a news conference yesterday in
downtown Nashville to draw attention to persecution in China and its effects on
children.
"This is an effort to raise awareness of Falun Gong children in China.
They lost their parents. They lost their homes and in many instances they are
not able to go to school," said Jason Wang of Huntsville, Ala. "Many
of their parents were sent to psychiatric wards, detention centers and labor
camps."
Wang was among a dozen demonstrators who assembled outside the old Nashville
library, which houses Metro's City Hall.
The group toured Southeastern cities this weekend to talk about the Chinese
Communist Party's 6-year-old attempts to suppress [Falun Gong.]
Based in New York City, Falun Gong is practiced in 60 countries. Li Hongzhi,
a former government employee who lives in the United States, introduced the
spiritual practice to the public in China in 1992. [...]
"Falun means law wheel, and Gong means the cultivation of energy and
capabilities," according to the University of Virginia's religious
movements home page, which has detailed profiles of more than 200 religious
groups and movements. The social and spiritual movement, also known as Falun
Dafa or "Great Law of the Wheel of Law," purports mental acuity,
physical fitness and spiritual purity achieved through meditation and exercises.
"The orphans in China are innocent and do not deserve to be
persecuted," said Ashley Wei, 11, of Memphis.
"We need to help them and bring them to America."
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050912/COUNTY0107/509120342/1001 Posting date: 9/14/2005
feedback@clearwisdom.net |