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Friday April 24, 2009
Aum Shinrikyo • FLDS • Falun Gong • Polygamy • RNB Roundup • Scientology • Witchcraft:
The RNB Religion News Roundup for Friday, Apr. 24, 2009 includes items about Scientology, Aum Shinrikyo, Korean cult leader Jeong Myeong-Seok, the continuing popularity of Aum Shrinrikyo’s jailed cult leader, and China’s on-going ban on Falun Gong.
Also: • A US state must pay benefits to the wife of a Jehovah’s Witness who died after refusing a blood transfusion • A killer turned pastor upsets his victim’s son • Nigerian preacher speaks out against witch hunts • Vampire story gets demoted…
Plus: what do you see? Pareidolia?
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Friday December 5, 2008
Falun Gong:
A follower of the Falun Gong religious group and a failed asylum seeker did not have his human rights breached when Russian authorities deported him to China, the European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday. The 74-year-old retired professor, known only as Y, lived in St. Petersburg from April 2003 to May 2007. He had unsuccessfully applied for asylum in Russia on a number of occasions, arguing he would be persecuted if sent back to China.
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Monday August 11, 2008
Falun Gong:
Members of the Falun Gong sect protested outside the congress of the International Congress of the Transplantation Society.The sect members claim that China kills its followers in order to illegally harvest their organs.
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Tuesday May 13, 2008
Falun Gong:
BEIJING -- Russian expert in sect studies Professor Alexander Dvorkin has tagged Falun Gong as an international cult at a forum in Beijing and said all healthy and righteous forces in the world should unite to combat cults.
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Monday March 24, 2008
Falun Gong:
The ministry revoked the show’s permit because the Chinese Embassy complained that the organizers — U.S.-based New Tang Dynasty Television station — were supporters of Falun Gong, a spiritual movement that Beijing bans as a dangerous cult, said a ministry official.
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Thursday January 3, 2008
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The letter compared Falun Gong to the Branch Davidians, which engaged federal agents in a standoff over illegal weapons stockpiles that killed 82 members near Waco, Texas, in 1993; and to the Peoples Temple, of which more than 900 members committed mass suicide in Guyana in 1978.
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Monday November 19, 2007
Falun Gong:
I’ve seen the original documentary and it struck me as fair and well balanced, with Chinese officials given ample opportunity to deny China was “harvesting” organs from imprisoned Falun Gung members for sale to rich and needy foreigners, and to decry Falun Gong as “a cult of evil.”
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Saturday November 10, 2007
Falun Gong:
CBC plans to air a slightly reworked documentary on the Falun Gong on Nov. 20, ending a rift that forced the film’s prime-time English debut to be abruptly cancelled this past week.
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Thursday November 8, 2007
Falun Gong:
The CBC postponed the airing of a documentary about the Falun Gong spiritual movement after receiving calls from the Chinese embassy expressing concern about the film’s subject matter.
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Wednesday June 27, 2007
Falun Gong:
A government spokesman reviled Hong Kong authorities Wednesday for barring Taiwanese Falun Gong followers from entering Hong Kong even though they held valid travel documents.
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Friday May 18, 2007
Falun Gong:
The quasi-religious sect and the city are locked in a fight over the bright blue protest hut and plywood billboards the group has refused to leave for the last five years.
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Thursday May 17, 2007
Falun Gong:
A look at China’s apparent attempts to extend its zealous culture of censorship in New Zealand — including the country’s campaign against Falun Gong.
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Friday May 4, 2007
Falun Gong:
The Hong Kong newspaper Ming Pao Daily quoted a Guangdong police spokesman as saying they suspect Falun Gong was responsible for the trouble.
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Thursday May 3, 2007
Falun Gong:
The Chinese Government has officially banned the trade in human organs for transplants – even though it denies such a trade exists.
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Thursday April 5, 2007
Falun Gong:
A Chinese diplomat’s wife who defected to Canada says she has proof that top Chinese officials tried to thwart a Falun Gong-affiliated TV network from being broadcast on Canadian television.
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Tuesday March 20, 2007
Falun Gong:
Zhou Yongkang, minister of public security, told a gathering of public security officials that separatists, religious extremists and terrorists pose a threat to constructing a harmonious socialist society, according to the statement issued late Monday.
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Wednesday March 7, 2007
Falun Gong:
A Falun Gong float, dancers and musicians defied a council ban and efforts to stop them taking part in Wellington’s Chinese New Year Festival parade.
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Saturday March 3, 2007
Falun Gong:
A federal judge has handed a victory to Falun Gong practitioners by allowing them to proceed with a lawsuit accusing diplomatic missions of the People’s Republic of China of waging a campaign of intimidation and violence against the meditative sect on American soil.
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Monday February 26, 2007
Falun Gong:
Falun Gong practitioner Wenyu (Winston) Liu says the mental torture he was forced to endure in a Beijing prison was much worse than the daily beatings and electrical shocks.
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Thursday February 15, 2007
Falun Gong:
Followers of the Falun Gong spiritual movement did not suffer discrimination when it was barred from marching in a Chinese New Year Parade funded by the city, a judge ruled Wednesday.
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Monday February 5, 2007
Falun Gong:
The Epoch Times is not a typical media outlet. It was launched in 2000 by Falun Gong members, and has since rapidly expanded its Web and print presence.
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Saturday January 27, 2007
Falun Gong:
An unknown number of wealthy Albertans have travelled to China to buy vital organs harvested from executed devotees of the outlawed Falun Gong movement, says former Edmonton MP David Kilgour.
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Friday January 19, 2007
Falun Gong:
Chinese government officials say the Falun Gong spiritual movement has hijacked the traditional Lunar New Year celebration with a touring musical show they deride as little more than propaganda for the religious sect that is banned in China.
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Thursday January 11, 2007
Falun Gong:
Falun Gong followers protest a plan to make nine Chinese TV channels available in Canada.
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Wednesday December 20, 2006
Falun Gong:
More than 100 legislators, lawyers, doctors, human rights activists and non-governmental organization heads from Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Macau yesterday established an Asian branch of the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China.
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