SYDNEY, Australia—Shen Yun Performing Arts graced the stage of Sydney’s Lyric Theatre in another packed show on May 4.
Formed in 2006, the New York-based Shen Yun tours the globe each year to revive and showcase China’s traditional culture, believed to be divinely-inspired but almost destroyed by communist rule. Shen Yun declares it is presenting “China before communism.”
For Mr. Paul Hanrahan, the executive director of Family Life International Australia, a pro-life and pro-family organisation, Shen Yun presented a message of hope.
“Chinese culture and the Chinese people, traditionally, have believed in God, and they believe in family values, and the Chinese Communist Party is the anti-thesis of all those things, and suppresses the natural desire of the Chinese people to express their belief in God, and to have the family that they wished to have, and to live the way they want to live. And certainly it’s a corrupt regime,” he said….