Five members of the banned Falun Gong meditation group set themselves on fire Tuesday in China's Tiananmen Square, according to an eyewitness. One of the five, a woman, died of injuries sustained in ...

Q: Falun Gong has been called a religion, a meditation and exercise program, and, by the Chinese government, an “evil cult.”What is Falun Gong? A:It’s a high-level cultivation practice to ...

An intensive government crackdown has failed to crush the Falun Gong meditation and exercise sect, whose members are reviving their efforts to challenge the government’s ban on the practice of ...

Strike a pose; feet placed shoulder-width apart, knees slightly bent, tongue touching upper palate, lips closed, eyes gently shut, and a serene expression. This is the stance Falun Gong practitioners ...

China's government says Falun Gong is a cult that has led more than 1,600 followers to their deaths, mostly by encouraging practitioners to use meditation instead of medicine to cure medical ailments.

As the Encyclopaedia Britannica describes it, Falun Gong or Falungong (“the Practice of the Wheel of Dharma”), also called Falundafa, is a spiritual movement founded by Li Hongzhi in 1992; its ...

Falun Gong was founded in mainland China in 1992, combining meditation, slow-motion exercises, moral teachings broadly based on Buddhism and Taoism and leader Li Hongzhi’s sometimes unorthodox ...

Before the CCP turned against Falun Gong and launched the persecution in 1999, even the Chinese government lauded the positive health effects of Falun Gong’s meditation and exercises.