Goshen Rally Calls for End to 25-Year Persecution of Falun Gong in China

Over a hundred Orange County residents gathered in downtown Goshen on July 13 to raise awareness about the quarter-century persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese communist regime.  Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual practice that combines meditative exercises with moral teachings based on the core tenets of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.   It rapidly gained popularity in China in the early 1990s, with an estimated 1 in every 13 Chinese citizens practicing Falun Gong before the communist regime started an all-out persecution of the practice on July 20, 1999.  Since then, scores of practitioners have made their ways overseas for safety and many settled down in Orange County west of Hudson River. ...