[series_posts_list][/series_posts_list]New York City’s Union Square came alive with music, dance, and vibrant colors on May 11, as more than a thousand local Falun Gong practitioners gathered to celebrate World Falun Dafa Day.
The day is observed annually on May 13, marking the introduction of the spiritual practice Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, to the public in China in 1992. The practice quickly became popular with tens of millions of followers before the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) perceived its popularity as a threat to the regime’s rule and launched a brutal persecution of the group in 1999, which has continued to this day….