By 1999, some estimates placed the number of Falun Gong adherents in the tens of millions.

Prior to July 1999, official estimates placed the number of Falun Gong practitioners as high as 60 to 70 million nationwide, rivaling membership in the Communist Party.

Most Falun Gong estimates in the same period estimated the total number of practitioners in China at 70 to 80 million.

" The article cited Zhuan Falun as an example of the rising number of publications riddled with " feudal superstition " ( fengjian mixin ) and " pseudoscience " ( wei kexue ).

In this time period, even as criticism of qigong and Falun Gong mounted in some circles, Falun Gong maintained a number of high-profile supporters.

In the letter, Jiang expressed concerns over the size and popularity of Falun Gong, and in particular about the large number of senior Communist Party members found among Falun Gong adherents.

That Falun Gong, whose belief system represented a revival of traditional Chinese religion, was being practiced by a large number of Communist Party members and members of the military was seen as particularly disturbing to Jiang Zemin.

Yuezhi Zhao argues that a number of factors contributed to the souring of relations between Falun Gong and the Chinese state and media.

Due to the difficulty in corroborating reports of torture deaths in China, estimates on the number of Falun Gong adherents killed under persecution vary widely.

In March 2006 the Falun Gong-affiliated Epoch Times published a number of articles alleging that the China was conducting widespread and systematic organ harvesting of living Falun Gong practitioners.

The most critical strategy in the Falun Gong suppression campaign, therefore, was to convince people to reclassify the Falun Gong into a number of " negatively charged religious labels ", like " evil cult ", " sect ", or " superstition ".

According to Falun Gong websites, the number of Falun Gong adherents tortured to death rose from 245 in 2000 to 419 in 2001.

According to International Advocates for Justice, Falun Gong has filed the largest number of human rights lawsuits in the 21st century and the charges are among the most severe international crimes defined by international criminal laws.

The minority religions are Christianity ( between 40 million, 3 %, and 54 million, 4 %), Islam ( 20 – 30 million, 1. 5 %– 2 %), the traditional tribal religions of the non-Han ethnic groups ( Moz, White Stone Religion, Dongbaism, Bön ), Judaism, Hinduism, and a number of new religions and sects ( particularly Xiantiandao and Falun Gong ).

The report alleged that the Chinese authorities were executing a " large but unknown number of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience " and removing their internal organs including corneas, hearts, kidneys and livers for sale to foreign nationals in need of healthy organs for transplant.

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Jiang Zemin was reported to have been deeply angered by the event, however, and expressed concern over the fact that a number of high-ranking bureaucrats, Communist Party officials, and members of the military establishment had taken up Falun Gong.

Cook and Lemish speculate that the 610 Office was created outside the traditional state-based security system for several reasons: first, a number of officials within the military and security agencies were practicing Falun Gong, leading Jiang and other CPC leaders to fear that these organizations had already been quietly compromised ; second, there was a need for a nimble and powerful organization to coordinate the anti-Falun Gong campaign ; third, the creation of a top-level party organization sent a message down the ranks that the anti-Falun Gong campaign was a priority ; and finally, CPC leaders did not want the anti-Falun Gong campaign to be hindered by legal or bureaucratic restrictions, and thus established the 610 Office extrajudicially.

One notable fact is that a number of Gong An works may have been lost or destroyed during the Literary Inquisitions and the wars in ancient China.

He is compelled to seek heroes and starts worshipping the Cock Pot Pixie, one of a number of Pot Head Pixies from the Planet Gong.

In the mid-1990s, a number of bands built on the space rock styles of Hawkwind and Gong appeared in America.

He, however, was forced to stay in Xie's headquarters, and Liu Gong protected him on a number of occasions.

") The second single, " Get It On ( Bang A Gong )," went to number 22 in the UK and number 9 in the U. S., while competing against the Duran Duran single " A View to a Kill ," which was a US number one.

Moreover, prudence alone would indicate that, unless the local customs are already ready to fall when pushed, the results of direct economic action everywhere upon national chain stores will likely be simply to give undue advantage to local and state stores which conform to these customs, leading to greater decentralization and local autonomy within the company, or even ( as the final self-defeat of an unjust application of economic pressure to correct injustice ) to its going out of business in certain sections of the country ( as, for that matter, the Quakers, who once had many meetings in the pre-Civil War South, largely went out of business in that part of the country over the slavery issue, never to recover a large number of southern adherents ).

It has been revived somewhat in conjunction with the environmental movement, and has been drawing an increasing number of adherents.

Sometimes a metropolitan may also be the head of an autocephalous, sui iuris, or autonomous church when the number of adherents of that tradition are small.

The number of adherents to the various smaller groups of Christadelphians varies from approximately 1, 850 members ( the Unamended Christadelphians as of 2006 ) to groups made up of little more than one or two immediate families.

Methodism ( from-methodos, " pursuit of knowledge ") is a movement of Protestant Christianity represented by a number of denominations and organizations, claiming a total of approximately seventy million adherents worldwide.

This estimate accounted for multiple membership overlaps as well as the number of adherents represented by each attendee of a pagan gathering.

The number of adherents to Nichirens teachings grew steadily during the 14th and 15th century to the extent that whole communities became followers of Nichiren's teachings.

It is an anti-Zionist, Haredi organization, closely aligned with the Satmar Hasidic group, which has about 100, 000 adherents ( an unknown number of which are rabbis ), and like-minded Haredi groups.

The number of adherents of neopaganism is insignificant in comparison, amounting to 0. 02 % of world population at the most, or some 0. 4 % of the " ethnoreligious " population.

Sufism gained adherents among a number of Muslims as a reaction against the worldliness of the early Umayyad Caliphate ( 661-750 CE ).

Today, it is one of five religions recognized in the PRC, and although it does not travel readily from its Asian roots, claims adherents in a number of societies.

The number of its adherents is estimated to be between ten and twenty million.

Among the adherents were a significant number of Italians.

Including all the autocephalous churches under its supervision, its adherents number over 150 million worldwide — about half of the 300 million estimated adherents of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

A list of alleged adherents was found by the police in Gelli's house in Arezzo in March 1981, containing 962 names, among which were important state officials, some important politicians and a number of military officers, including the heads of the three Italian secret services.

His works were collected and published by a number of his adherents — F Hoffman, J Hamberger, E v. Schaden, Lutterbeck, von Osten-Sacken and Schluter — Baader's sämmtliche Werke ( 16 vols., 1851 – 1860 ).

Wesleyan Methodism in Tintagel began in 1807 at Trenale and over the next sixty years gained many adherents though divided among a number of sects ( Wesleyan Methodist, Methodist Association, Bible Christian ): chapels were built at Trevena in 1838 and Bossiney in 1860.

The Catholic Church has the highest number of adherents in Franklin County ( at 16, 280 ), followed by the United Methodist Church with 2, 674 members reported and the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Vasiloupulis, reporting 1, 720 adherents.