Founded by Li Hongzhi (b. 1952) in 1992 in China, the Falun Gong, or Falun Dafa, is the fastest-growing religious and social movement in recent history. The Chinese government estimates the number of Falun Gong followers as between 2 and 10 million in...

Sectarian religion As China ‘marketized’ its economy, opened to the outside world, and revised its national constitution in the interval between 1980 and 1986, there were several ‘fevers’ (re) or popular cultural enthusiasms...

A large religious movement called the Falun Gong has garnered a lot of attention in the People's Republic of China and around the world. China has determined that the organization is illegal, and has punished public practice of the religion...

FALUN GONG. Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a Chinese spiritual movement founded in 1992 by Li Hongzhi (1951–). Although most Western scholars would classify it as a "new religious movement," Li and his followers...

Falun Gong or Falun Dafa is a system of "mind and body cultivation" introduced to the public in China by Li Hongzhi in 1992. It has five sets of meditation exercises (four standing and one sitting meditation), and seeks to develop practitioners' heart...

In early January, a U.S. edition of The Epoch Times published a list of what its editors considered the Top 10 news stories of 2006. Not surprisingly, the war in Iraq was first.The second story, however, was less predictable: "China's Human Rights Movement Grows."The subject...

A Canadian broadcaster's decision to pull a heavily promoted documentary on the persecution of the Falun Gong spiritual movement after objections from Chinese officials was criticized Friday by members of the group and the filmmaker.Both questioned whether the move was influenced by the fact that...

Beijing spies kidnapped a Chinese national from her home in New Zealand two years ago and took her back to China by ship, a former Chinese diplomat said Thursday.Chen Yonglin, who defected from China's Consulate in Sydney in 2005 amid his claims that Beijing ran...

Beijing Olympic organizers angrily disputed allegations of religious intolerance Thursday, saying Bibles and other religious items for personal use will be welcome at next summer's games — except for the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement.Recent reports by a religious news agency and European media saying...