NEW YORK CITY—Shen Yun Performing Arts, the group long considered a thorn in the Chinese communist regime’s side, joined thousands of Falun Gong practitioners on July 20 in a parade through Manhattan’s Chinatown to condemn the Beijing’s persecution of faith and warn Americans about the regime’s growing reach on U.S. soil.
After years of expressing their faith through dance, they said the far-reaching repression from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is now threatening them directly, in America.
“This is a different way to use my voice … and exercise my freedom of religion,” Angelia Wang, a principal dancer with Shen Yun, told the Epoch Times. …