VENICE, Fla.—The Bible is the most printed, sold, and read book in the world—but was banned in communist China, where Lynne Hansen visited in the early 1990s for the sole reason of smuggling in Bibles.
So Ms. Hansen was deeply intrigued by Shen Yun Performing Arts and its performance showcasing “China before communism.”
On the evening of March 11, Ms. Hansen attended a performance with her husband, Scott Biehler, at the Venice Performing Arts Center in Venice, Florida.
China was once called the “Land of the Divine” and its people lived with deep reverence for the heavens, Shen Yun explains on its website. But this civilization was uprooted with the takeover by the foreign atheist ideology of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1949….