The 13th of May 2012 marked the 13th World Falun Dafa Day, the 20th anniversary of the public introduction of Falun Dafa, and the 61st birthday of Master Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Dafa. On May 12, Falun Gong practitioners from Ireland held activities on Grafton Street in Dublin, celebrating this holiday.

Falun Gong practitioner Ms. Xie Xiugai, who is over 50 years old, has followed the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance since she started practising Falun Gong in 1996. As a person who's benefited both physically and spiritually, she deeply understands the significance of Falun Gong's acceptance throughout the world. Since July 1999, when the Jiang Zemin regime of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime started brutally persecuting against Falun Gong practitioners, Ms. Xie has been arrested five times and sentenced to nine years in prison. During this period, she suffered brutal torture both physically and spiritually. She was released and returned home in the autumn of 2011.

There is overwhelming evidence of the Chinese Communist regime's chilling role in systematically murdering Falun Gong practitioners, harvesting their organs while they are alive, and making huge profits from doing so. In response to the international outcry, the Chinese regime has attempted to explain away one of the main pieces of circumstantial evidence--the meteoric rise in the number of organ transplantations in recent years and the extremely short wait times in a culture notoriously averse to organ donation--by stating that it has harvested organs from executed criminals after their deaths.

Mr. Wang Shengli, an 80-year-old retired Minister of the Fuyang City Prefectural Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Propaganda Bureau, has been a steadfast Falun Gong practitioner. Police arrested him when he was having dinner with friends on December 5th, 2010, and sentenced him to a three-year prison term. Ms. Ma Yuling, who is in her forties and from Linquan County, was arrested at the same time and sentenced to a three-year prison term for practising Falun Gong.

On the morning of March 20th, 2012, the 610 Office (an organisation of special agents just for persecuting Falun Gong) of the Political and Legislative Affairs Committee of Yentai City, Shandong Province ordered police officers in Zhifu District to harass and arrest 23 practitioners who have refused to give up their beliefs. The average age of the arrested practitioners is about 60 years old, with the oldest being 75. All were women except for one man.

The book was Zhuan Falun. The first time I read it, I experienced some unexplainable feelings. For example, the energy in my stomach was noticeably active, as if a tiny child were punching in there. In no time I felt my liver become as hard as iron, but it shortly turned soft. I was curious and a little nervous in the beginning, but not scared, because none of the unusual feelings hurt or caused any discomfort. I realized this book was extraordinary.

During the Qing Dynasty, there were twin boys who lived in Yuzhang. They not only looked the same, they acted the same as well; even their parents couldn't tell them apart. The parents named them after they started to speak. At school their understanding of text and writing were also the same. At the age of 20, they became students of a court academic.