AROUND THE WORLD.China Cracks Down On Spiritual Movement The Chinese government Ever since Republic of China founded in January 1st, 1912, China has had several regional and national governments. List
or Falun Dafa Controversial spiritual movement combining healthful exercises with meditation for the purpose of “moving to higher levels.” Its teachings draw from Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, and the Western New Age movement. religious movement, including arrests of adherents, television propaganda against the group and public burnings of the sect's materials. This round of suppression was instigated after 10,000 Falun Gong followers, who preach a combination of exercise and meditation, participated in a peaceful sit-in protest April 25 at the Communist Party's leadership compound. However, the government is dealing with the religious group much differently than the democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square Tiananmen Square, large public square in Beijing, China, on the southern edge of the Inner or Tatar City. The square, named for its Gate of Heavenly Peace (Tiananmen), contains the monument to the heroes of the revolution, the Great Hall of the People, the museum of in 1989, sensitive to the fact that millions of Falun Gong adherents are also members of the Communist Party Communist party, in China Communist party, in China, ruling party of the world's most populous nation since 1949 and most important Communist party in the world since the disintegration of the USSR in 1991. . Despite the relatively lenient punishment for Chinese followers, The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times also reported that government officials have labeled Falun Gong "evil," its adherents "misguided" and accused the group's leaders of "spreading superstitious and fallacious ideas to deceive the public, causing deaths of practitioners." Each night, government-run television airs interviews with former group members who have abandoned the movement. Specific figures on the size of the Falun Gong movement are unavailable, though the government has reported the sect has anywhere from 2.1 million to 10 million followers, with about one-third of the followers being members of the Communist Party. |
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