It is like Christianity 2.0, or Judaism 3.0. It’s the Church of Eastern Lightning, and they are pretty radical. They figured out the clearly obvious truth that Jesus is currently a Chinese woman. This revolutionary new Christian branch was started in 1989 by a man named Zhao Weishan who discovered t...
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that SONG LUO, ZEYUAN WANG, and YONG ZHANG were sentenced in Manhattan federal court in connection with their roles in a scheme to commit immigration fraud by creating and submitting applications for pol...
This paper was originally presented at the International Symposium on Cultic Studies, held on D ecember 6-8, 2007, at Shenzhen China, which was sponsored by Institute of W orld Religions, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. This institution made strong effort to study the activities of the F...
My only praise goes to the shows advertising agents: I have no idea how they masked the poor choreography and low quality cgi backdrop to the general NYC public enough to have the show return to Lincoln Center. Half the audience walked out during the applause.
Huang Han, a graduate of Beijing Foreign Studies University, is pursuing a master degree in marketing in Chicago University. On the afternoon of April 22, 2012, she and her classmate watched Shen Yun Show in Chicago theatre, only found that the show was not as wonderful as claimed. On the contrary, ...
Most people in the US have a narrow view of China. Yes, I could use your language and call them "brainwashed" but I just don't buy into that. I believe that people everywhere have the freedom and capacity to think what they want, no matter the political ideology of the country you live in. The fact ...
Reviews vary, but it's fair to say many others were also not into the message, described by one reviewer as "eerie propaganda for Falun Dafa/Falun Gong."
Some weeks back I saw a poster for “Shen Yun: Reviving 5,000 Years of Civilization” at work and thought “Excellent! The wife digs artistic performance and bonus points for digging some traditional Chinese culture.” I grabbed some tickets and mentioned to a coworker. “Shen Yun? That’s Falun Gong.” I ...
The Chinese dance troupe Shen Yun, promoting itself in flowery terms as a folkloric pageant celebrating 5,000-year-old Chinese culture, returns to the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre this weekend for three performances before moving to the Fox Theatre for two more early next week.
Organizers for the arts troupe Shen Yun bill its performances as "an extraordinary journey across 5,000 years of Chinese civilization" told through dance, music and breathtaking imagery. They promise that the show, slated for Jan. 17 to 19 at the Keller Auditorium, will "touch your soul." But bene...
Colorful Shen Yun billboards liberally displayed all over Ventura and LA Counties promised exotic entertainment on a grand scale — I imagined a sort of Chinese “Cirque de Soleil.” Those billboards and a whiz-bang marketing campaign worked — although the ticket prices were astronomical, the shows we...
The High Court here today dismissed an application by the leader of the “Tuhan Harun” religious cult, Harun Mat Saat, who is charged with the murder of Pahang Islamic Religious Department (Jaip) principal assistant director Ahmad Raffli Abd Malek, to be released on bail.
In 1979, I was demobilized and went back home. Because I was a medical corpsman when I was in the troop, I became a country doctor after self-taught examination from a barefoot doctor. I insist the principles of saving lives, serving society and easing pain for the patients.
According to a report published on the Calgarysun and CBC websites on the 31st of January, 2014, a member of staff of the East Central Ambulance Association (ECAA) in Alberta, Canada died in a crash on the P.E.II Highway in wintry road conditions. It is reported that the victim was a Falun Gong disc...
On the 23rd of January, 2001, 7 Falun Gong practitioners including Wang Jindong from Henan Kaifeng set themselves on fire at Beijing Tian’an Men Square, which stroke the whole world. Now, 13 years have passed, Li Hongzhi and his Falun Gong cult group however did not admit the truth in front of the f...