SAN JOSE, Calif.—Tears and silence filled the theater as audience members processed the emotional yet hopeful story in the award-winning film “Unsilenced.” Based on a true story, the two-hour film follows the experiences of an American journalist stationed in China as well as two young couples. The American journalist, tired of the Chinese Communist Party’s…
Emotional Story in New Movie ‘Unsilenced’ Touches Northern Californians
Film Review: ‘Unsilenced’–Risking Life When Lies Silence a Nation
Commentary The film “Schindler’s List” reminds the audience of the crimes that took place at the Auschwitz concentration camp, and imprints historical events and figures on their minds with vivid images. After World War II, the Nuremberg trials exposed the Nazis’ crimes and the international community promised multiple times to not let the evils of…
China Continues Suppression of Falun Gong, with 16,413 Arrests and Harassment Cases Confirmed in 2021: Report
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continued arresting and harassing Falun Gong adherents during 2021, as part of its nationwide suppression campaign launched more than two decades ago against the spiritual discipline. According to a report from Minghui.org, a U.S.-based website that tracks the persecution of Falun Gong in China, 5,886 arrests and 10,527 harassment cases…
State Department Condemns Beijing for Imprisoning 11 Falun Gong Practitioners Weeks Before Olympics
The U.S. State Department on Jan. 21 condemned the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for sentencing 11 Falun Gong practitioners to prison terms as long as eight years for exercising their religious beliefs. The Jan. 14 sentences were handed down just weeks ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The State Department is calling on…
Sheridan’s Award-Winning 3D Animation Student Calls for Release of Mom Jailed in China
An award-winning young digital animation student whose family has suffered spiritual persecution for decades in China arrived in Canada in August 2020 to avoid harassment and secure her future. But nearly a year later, she learned her mother was, once again, placed in detention. This is her story. The talented 24-year-old student at world-renowned Sheridan…
China Exploits Upcoming Winter Olympics to Tighten Persecution of Falun Gong Believers
The Chinese communist regime is again intensifying its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners as the Beijing Winter Olympic Games looms. Harassment and arbitrary detentions have increased in the name of the ruling communist party maintaining “stability.” Four weeks ahead of the Games, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is increasingly targeting Falun Gong believers, especially in…
Chinese Regime Intensifies Persecution of Falun Gong Ahead of Beijing Winter Olympics
The Chinese communist regime is again intensifying its persecution of Falun Gong practitioners as the Beijing Winter Olympic Games looms. Harassment and arbitrary detentions have increased in the name of the ruling communist party maintaining “stability.” Four weeks ahead of the Games, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is increasingly targeting Falun Gong believers, especially in…
US Commission Renews Attention on Imprisoned Falun Gong Practitioner
Five weeks ahead of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) renewed its concern about an imprisoned Chinese Falun Gong practitioner, urging the regime to end persecution of her faith group. On Dec. 27, the CECC on Twitter highlighted Deng Cuiping, a former primary school teacher in Yuxi city, Yunnan…
China’s Christians Face an Uncertain Christmas
News Analysis It’s Christmastime in the People’s Republic of China, a season for shopping, taking pictures with Santa, and giving gift-wrapped apples to friends. Christmas is widely celebrated in China, but not as a religious holiday, or even as a day off from work. It’s similar to St. Patrick’s Day in America—a fun day with…
Injected With Unknown Medication in Jail, Innocent Woman Passed Away in China
A labor camp in China injected a 63-year-old Chinese woman with unknown medication for seven days. The woman, detained for her spiritual beliefs, suffered for four-and-a-half months before passing away on Nov. 18. Kang Aifen had been suffering with hypertension long before police from the Qianjin police bureau in Jiamusi city, Heilongjiang Province, suddenly broke…
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