According to the company, its artists practice Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, a spiritual discipline based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. The practice is persecuted by the CCP.

“Actual street violence is directed at Falun Gong, we know in Queens and all around New York,” Greve said. “Peaceful Falun Gong protesters, or even just people meditating. The gangs come, and there have been a few cases where the police prosecute.

In 1999, the CCP turned on Falun Gong, starting a brutal persecution that continues to this day.

Lucy Zhao of the Falun Dafa Association of Australia issued a statement on Feb. 25 condemning the CCP's escalating campaign against Shen Yun and Falun Gong.

Yin said that one goal of Shen Yun is to show people the truth about the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong.

“Those who persecute people of faith will also bring harm to themselves in the end,” an anonymous Falun Gong practitioner wrote on Minghui.org, a clearinghouse for information on the persecution of Falun Gong.

"When I heard that the CCP persecuted Falun Gong, I thought that if the CCP doesn’t allow people to practice Falun Gong, just don't do it."

However, the Chinese Communist Party—afraid of the faith's influence—began a campaign to persecute Falun Gong practitioners in 1999. Mr.

Although her initial intention was only to help her husband, it turns out that practicing Falun Gong helped her as well. Taiwanese entrepreneur Huang Chaoming (R) and his wife reads Zhuan Falun, the principle text for Falun Gong.

raise awareness of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China.

According to a letter obtained by The Epoch Times, the CCP’s “North American Anti-Falun Gong Office” has been operating since at least March 2021, coordinating efforts to suppress Falun Gong abroad.

Falun Gong practitioners take part in a candlelight vigil commemorating Falun Gong practitioners who were persecuted to death by the Chinese Communist Party in China, in Washington on July 17, 2025.

Common targets include exiled opposition politicians, journalists who fled persecution, religious minorities such as Uyghurs and Falun Gong practitioners, business figures caught in political disputes, and ethnic diaspora activists.

A bipartisan pair of senators unveils a new bill aimed at protecting Falun Gong practitioners and countering forced organ harvesting in China. U.S.

David Matas, Caroline Yates from the UK Falun Dafa Association, and two Falun Gong practitioners who were attacked in the UK and China.

This includes Uyghurs and Falun Gong practitioners, "who have been forcibly detained in internment camps for their cultural, religious and spiritual beliefs.

"[He] repeatedly echoed the CCP's slanders against Falun Gong with a consistent tone," she told The Epoch Times.

Gong and Organ Harvesting

Amid the ongoing persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China, the U.S.

The event examines the persecution and forced organ harvesting perpetrated against Falun Gong practitioners as a "cold genocide," one of the most heinous genocides of the 21st century.

Falun Gong, also known as Falun Dafa, is a spiritual practice rooted in the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance.

The initial message demanded that organisers cancel the screening and sever ties with Falun Gong, or “a bomb will be detonated.”

The CCP sought to turn Chinese society against Falun Gong, and in the following years, practitioners around the world spoke out.

“We urge the Chinese Communist Party to end its now 25-year campaign to eradicate Falun Gong.”

More than 120 Falun Gong practitioners died as a result of persecution in China last year, but experts warn that the true toll could be far higher. We break down the report and what’s behind this ongoing crackdown.

According to the program, “It tells of people who practice Falun Dafa (or Falun Gong), the meditation discipline guided by the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance.

In the case of Falun Gong and Uyghurs, credible allegations point to the state-sanctioned practice of forced organ harvesting, which the experts have concluded is a crime against humanity.

(Bottom) Liu Ningxiang (R) and anti-Falun Gong protestors try to disrupt a Falun Gong parade in New York City on May 9, 2025.

Many of Shen Yun’s performers practice Falun Gong and know people or have been directly persecuted for their faith in China. Mr.

According to the company, its artists practise Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, a spiritual meditation discipline based on the principles of truthfulness, compassion, and tolerance. The practice has been persecuted by the CCP since 1999.