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Falun Dafa practitioners from a city in Northeast China celebrated "Falun Dafa Day in Changchun City." Even though the evil force is even more rampant, Dafa practitioners are wiser; even though the evil forces are acting even more shamelessly and insanely, Dafa practitioners are more steady and mature. Now the evil is even more like the locusts and mosquitoes of late autumn. With only a few days left, they are like a building without a foundation, and are about to collapse.

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Latest News from China

Today, two hundred and forty one people solemnly declared that all they have previously written and said that was against Dafa and Teacher under unbearable torture and also due to their shallow understanding of Dafa and deep attachments is completely void. They will resolutely take every step, redouble their efforts in making up for the loss they caused to Dafa and be qualified Dafa practitioners.

Six Dafa practitioners from Tsinghua University were illegally sentenced to jail on December 13th for clarifying the truth of Falun Dafa. The practitioners were righteous and firm during the trial, generously clarifying the truth of Falun Dafa and promoting Dafa. Their great benevolence and forbearance plus their rationality and calm affected all the people on the scene, and the chief judge was rendered speechless. Their strong wills and clear minds also let their relatives who were originally very grieved feel comforted and encouraged. Indeed, righteousness is far stronger than evil!

A 32-year-old colonel, Wang Youjiang declared in prison, "I'm a Falun Dafa practitioner and I cultivate 'Truthfulness, Compassion, Tolerance,' (I try to) become a good person. If I die, it will be the result of the evil's persecution! Anyone who participates in the persecution will not be able to escape. My life's blending into the last period of Fa rectification is the joy of my existence!"

Practitioners Ma Minghai and Li Dang were illegally sentenced to three years of forced labor and were brutally tortured at Zaozihe Forced Labor Camp in Shaanxi Province. For twelve days, the vicious police officers forcibly tied Ma Minghai to a wooden plank bed. After he began a hunger strike he was force-fed through the nose. On top of that, he is now detained in a damp and dark warehouse, and has been told he will remain in there as long as he doesn't give in to their demands [to give up Falun Gong]. In Li Dang's case, because he is very determined in his cultivation of Dafa, the authorities of the forced labor camp never allow his family to visit him.

Let's welcome the magnificent moment together! Practitioners in a city in Northwest China celebrate the birth of the first "Falun Dafa Day" in China, in Teacher's hometown of Changchun City, the holy place where Dafa was first heard.

A practitioner's letter to her family: "Other than four fellow practitioners, the rest of the prisoners are all criminals. Because we clarify the truth every day, now they all know that Falun Dafa is good. Currently, many people are holding a hunger strike. Some were sent to the hospital affiliated with the prison. My child, although I can't take care of you now, you should nevertheless be proud of your mother. Study the Fa diligently and clarify the truth to your schoolmates.

[Liaozhong County, Shenyang City] In the past few days, police stalked, ambushed, tricked, and subsequently arrested practitioners while they were talking to people about Falun Dafa, and held them at the notorious Shenyang Shenxin Forced Labor Camp and Zhangshi Forced Labor Camp. The phone number of Shao Lianchun, the person heading the local political and legal commission, is 86-024-87882077 (Home), 86-024-87883252 (Office).

[Zhaoyang City, Liaoning Province] To people from my hometown: As someone who has benefited from Falun Dafa, I protested the government's persecution and was sentenced to Zhaoyang Labor Camp for 3 years, where I was hit on my head, stripped of my clothes, whipped with leather belts, and shocked with electric batons on my face, mouth, belly button and sides of my head.

In remembrance of Yuan Jiang: You left indelible marks in Qinghua University and Gansu Province. Wherever you went, you spread Falun Dafa. You devoted your life to Dafa, even validating to the world that Falun Dafa is the righteous way and the truth of the universe by giving up your young life.

On December 16, 2001 "The Conversations on the Central Issue," a slanderous program shown on CCTV that used the killer Fu Yibin to frame Falun Gong for murder. The Falun Gong teachings emphasize that practitioners should not kill and that practitioners should be nice to and be on good terms with others. What Fu Yibin did was the opposite. Each word he said was against the principles of Falun Gong. He is definitely not a Falun Gong practitioner.

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Stories of Cultivation

An elderly man in the neighborhood suffered from cerebral thrombosis and his children all work in other towns. He was well taken care of by Falun Gong practitioners. The good behavior of Falun Gong practitioners helped people to know the truth about Falun Gong.

"However strong the righteous thoughts are, that's how great the power is." (Also In a Few Words) One practitioner in Shandong Province in her 30's understands the Fa from the perspective of the Fa. With her righteous thoughts and her firm belief in Dafa and Master, she did not give in to the evil people who tried to persecute her, nor did she cooperate with the evil forces. She escaped from the den of the evil ones five times and her strong and righteous thoughts shocked the evil.

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News from Overseas

Falun Gong practitioners from Belize in Central America send congratulations to the 2001 Falun Dafa Experience Sharing Conference in Taiwan.