TAIPEI, Taiwan—About 5,000 people filled an iconic Taipei landmark on Oct. 18, coming together like pixels in a massive painting, in an effort to share their faith and shine a spotlight on communist China’s ongoing human rights abuses.
The gathering was the annual character formation event organized by local Falun Gong practitioners, a tradition that dates back to China before the communist regime launched a brutal persecution against the faith group in 1999.
This year, practitioners from South Korea, Japan, Germany, Canada, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, and the United States joined the event at Taipei’s Liberty Square.
Dressed in blue, black, red, white, and yellow, Falun Gong practitioners arranged themselves in precise rows to form an image of the “law wheel,” or “falun” in Chinese, which contains the traditional Buddhist “srivatsa” and Taoist “taiji” symbols. This emblem represents Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, which translates to “Great Way of the Law Wheel.”…
5,000 Falun Gong Practitioners Gather for Grand Formation in Taiwan
