When the door of the Minghui School opened, the first thing I saw was a group of boys holding the book Zhuan Falun [the main text of Falun Dafa] and reading the opening passage, Lunyu. On the other side a group of girls folded paper lotus flowers, while some younger children were learning to recite poems from a collection by Master Li, entitled Hongyin.

Falun Gong practitioners from all over the UK went to the Chinese Embassy in London to hold a candle light vigil on World Human Rights Day. The solemn and peaceful protest clearly sent a message from all practitioners and supporters of Falun Gong: Stop persecuting Falun Gong.

On January 5th, 2008, the cold winter wind did not stop Falun Gong practitioners in Helsinki. As always, when there is a large amount of people in town during the weekend, practitioners made their way to the central railway station to raise awareness about the evil of the Chinese Communist Party, who persecute Falun Gong for their beliefs.

On January 6th, 2008, Falun Gong practitioners held an activity at the Chinese Embassy in Munich to support the thirty million withdrawals from the CCP. After seeing the banners and information posters about organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners, passers-by were shocked and many people signed petition forms to stop the CCP’s evil doing.

The Divine Land Marching Band was invited to participate in parades and other activities celebrating the New Year in London, Paris, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, and through many wonderful performances has brought Falun Dafa's magnificence and New Year's greetings to people around the world. One of the marching band's best performances was in London.

November 17th, 2007 was Czech National Day. As Czechs celebrated the ending of the communist party’s atrocious rule on this day eighteen years ago, the Falun Gong Devine Land Marching Band composed of nearly one hundred Falun Gong practitioners, was invited to participate in the celebration marking the National Day this year.

On New Years Eve, Slovak practitioners from all over the country met at the Chinese Embassy in Bratislava to welcome in the New Year in a special way. As night fell, all around the sound of merry-making could be heard and in the night sky there were flares and rockets, despite the commotion a group of Falun Gong practitioners meditated peacefully.

Practitioners were invited to participate in the Paris Parade Festival, the annual New Year parade held in Chantilly near Paris. The Falun Gong contingent was made up from the European Paradise Orchestra, practitioners demonstrating the Falun Gong exercises, as well as performances, floats and fantastic costumes.

On the first day of 2008, the European Celestial Marching Band played on a cruise on the River Seine, one of the most poetic and beautiful scenes in Paris. The European Celestial Marching Band was composed of over 120 Falun Gong practitioners, who are from different European countries and nations.

On December 13th, 2007, Ukrainian Falun Gong practitioners held a protest at the Chinese Embassy urging the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to stop its eight year persecution of Falun Gong. Practitioners distributed leaflets and newspapers to inform passersby that in China Falun Gong practitioners had been illegally thrown into labour camps, mental hospitals and even been tortured to death and that the CCP’s purpose was to force them to give up their belief.

Shortly after Christmas, on December 29th, a group of Northern European Falun Gong practitioners gathered at the Chinese Embassy in Stockholm. They sat in candle light, protesting against the evil CCP’s brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China.

On December 29th 2007, the European Celestial Land Marching Band, consisting of 120 Falun Gong practitioners from more than ten European countries, attended the New Year Parade in Paris. Falun Gong practitioners also performed in the parade. Spectators said the music was very powerful and the Falun Gong practitioners’ group looked wonderful.

On the afternoon of December 28th, German Falun Dafa practitioners held an experience sharing conference at a youth hostel in Wetzlar. Practitioners came from all over the country to discuss the benefits they had received from practising Falun Gong as well as experiences and understanding gained while raising awareness of the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China.

From the 11th to the 15th of December, 2007, the “Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance” Art Exhibition was held at the Mediatheque in Dole, a city in Jura Province in eastern France. The exhibition, hosted by the Falun Gong Association of Jura Province, was supported by the Mayor of Dole and Members of Parliament. Many media also reported the event.

In what has now become an annual tradition, Falun Gong practitioners participated in London's 22nd New Year's Day Parade. This year, the parade organisers had predicted crowds of 500,000 and more than 10,000 participants. The parade began at midday, taking a 2 mile route passing many of London's great historical sights.

The practitioners displayed eye-catching banners disclosing the CCP's organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners. Various photographs depicting the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in mainland China were displayed. Many passers-by recognised the stall - they have been seeing Falun Gong practitioners in this street every month for more than a year.

On the morning of December 24th, 2007, a group of Turkish Falun Gong practitioners staged a peaceful protest against the Chinese Communist Party and the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners at the Chinese Embassy. The persecution has lasted for the past eight years in Mainland China and over three thousand innocent people have lost their lives.

On December 22nd, the 'Finnish Service Centre for Quitting the Chinese Communist Party' and Falun Gong practitioners from Helsinki went to the Central Railway Station. They appealed to the public to pay attention to the thirty million Chinese people who have abandoned their membership of Chinese Communist Party and raised awareness about the vicious nature of the CCP.

On December 14th, 2007, a female resident of Ely, who has long been concerned about China's human rights and the persecution of Falun Gong in China, organised the "Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance Art Exhibition" in Ely, Cambridgeshire. All of the many works on display were created by artists who practise Falun Gong.

The 10th of December, 2007, was World Human Rights Day. Many people who advocate peace gathered in Human Right Square in Paris, expressing their longing and concern for human rights and peace. Falun Gong practitioners also went there to call on people to help stop the persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

On November 17th, Falun Gong practitioners from Guadeloupe demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises at an event called “Martial Arts, the History of India and Buddhist Dances and Musical Performance Sharing” in the Jardin d’Eau Park.

In order to stop the CCP from persecuting Falun Gong practitioners and from its conduct of removing organs from living Falun Gong practitioners as soon as possible, Falun Gong practitioners in over one hundred of cities all over the world have been disclosing and protesting against the CCP atrocities by using methods such as staging re-enactments.

On December 13th, 2007, Ukrainian Falun Gong practitioners held a protest at the Chinese Embassy urging the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to stop its eight year persecution of Falun Gong. Practitioners distributed leaflets and newspapers to inform people that in China Falun Gong practitioners had been illegally thrown into labour camps, mental hospitals and even been tortured to death and that the CCP’s purpose was to force them to give up their belief.

On December 11th, 2007, a China Human Rights Forum was held in Dole City Hall. In their remarks, representatives from various human rights organisations illustrated, analyzed and exposed the Chinese Communist regime’s evil nature and the atrocities it has perpetrated during its economic development.

When people saw Falun Gong practitioners' display, many were interested and asked what it was all about; who were the people in the pictures in the display panels? Why were these activities held outside in such cold weather? After practitioners talked with them about the persecution of Falun Gong, which has continued for eight years, they were shocked and signed the petition without hesitation.

On December 10th, 2007, International Human Rights Day, Falun Gong practitioners from Helsinki gathered outside the Chinese Embassy to protest against the Chinese Communist Party’s genocide of Falun Gong during the past eight years. In late afternoon, they held a candle-light vigil to mourn for Falun Gong practitioners who have been murdered through the persecution.

On December 8th, 2007, French and Belgian Falun Gong practitioners organised an activity in the northern industrial city of Lille in France to raise awareness about Falun Gong and the persecution. As well as displaying eye catching banners and exhibiting photos depicting the persecution of Falun Gong in China, practitioners also distributed leaflets to passers by.

"I think China’s current situation (referring to the Beijing Games) is similar to the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games hosted by Nazi Germany or the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games hosted by the former Soviet Union, which was an autocratic country. I think these autocratic countries are unqualified for hosting the Olympic Games.”

December 10th, 2007 was the annual Nobel Prize awards day. At six o’clock in the evening, Swedish practitioners came to the front of City Hall. This day each year has become a good opportunity for them to raise awareness about the persecution of Falun Gong among the guests from various circles that come to attend the Nobel Prize dinner.

The annual International Human Rights Day was on December 10th. Many Swedish International Human Rights organisations gathered at Gothenburg University and held a report session on “Human Rights Courage, Consciousness and Action”. Mr. Manyang Wu, a China specialist from the ISHR, was invited to speak regarding “The situation in China before the Beijing Olympics”.

In July 1999, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started a brutal crackdown on the practice of Falun Gong. In their spare time Falun Gong practitioners all over the world started to tell people about the benefits of practising Falun Gong, its success internationally and the brutal persecution happening in China.

After the Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party was published three years ago, many Falun Gong practitioners keep spreading them to the Chinese people. They hope that, after reading the Nine Commentaries, they would know better about the truth of how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has persecuted the Chinese people.

On December 1st, 2007, a Christmas Concert was held by the Alle Kan Synge Koret singing group at the cathedral near the Town Hall in Bodo. Wang Yajun, a Falun Gong practitioner who took part in the New Tang Dynasty Television “International Chinese Vocal Competition”, was invited as a special guest at the concert. The host introduced how innocent Falun Gong practitioners were brutally persecuted in mainland China.

In November, Falun Gong practitioners from Helsinki went to the Chinese Embassy to show support for the EU parliament inviting three China-based Falun Gong practitioners for a public hearing about China’s human rights. Many people who came to the Chinese Embassy for visas learned about China’s human rights situation.

On December 5th, 2007, the Italian branch of Amnesty International joined a global campaign to call on Beijing to make significant improvement in its human rights situation. In a statement, the director of the Italian branch of Amnesty International said, “The Olympic Games to be held in Beijing in August next year would be a precious opportunity for the people around the world to pay attention to China’s human rights situation. People may call on the Beijing Administration to improve its human rights record directly or through the twenty thousand journalists who have signed up to cover the event.”

On Human Rights Day (December 10th) in Greece, practitioners raised awareness about cases of organ harvesting from live Falun Gong practitioners in China. The information was exhibited in a pedestrian area in the centre of Athens, near many universities. Many young people who passed by were shocked to learn about all these abuses but very interested to support an end to the organ harvesting.

On November 17th, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners in Leeds launched activities to raise awareness about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party. Many pedestrians stopped to sign to support stopping the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and many people showed their interest in the peaceful Falun Gong exercises and obtained introductory information about the free Falun Gong classes in their area.

The first Caribbean cultivation experience sharing conference was held in Guadeloupe on November 4th. Practitioners from Martinique in the Caribbean also attended the conference. Practitioners arrived three days before the conference and participated in various activities to promote Falun Gong. The experience sharing conference lasted for a whole Sunday. Forty practitioners in total shared their experiences in how they improved their characters and raised awareness about the persecution taking place in China.

On December 1st, volunteers from the Epoch Times newspaper, as well as Falun Gong practitioners and representatives from the Finnish Service Centre for Quitting the CCP, held an activity in Helsinki to support the 29 million Chinese people who have quit the CCP. Attracted by the banners, posters and a broadcast of the “Nine Commentaries”, many people came to sign the petition.

On October 27th, 2007, an event to support the Global Human Rights Torch Relay was held in Düsseldorf, Germany, and many human rights organisations in Germany participated. Mr. Koerper, a member of the China team of the co-host The International Society for Human Rights (IGFM), spoke on behalf of the organisation, pointing out that hosting the Olympics had not improved human rights in China. On the contrary, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has stepped up the persecution of dissidents in the name of the Olympics.

Out of fear of Falun Gong, the Chinese Communist regime has incessantly dispatched special agents to make trouble for Falun Gong practitioners in recent years, together with hooligans in overseas Chinese society. Zhong Zheng, a male Chinese special agent, appeared in London's Chinatown on November 27th, 2007. Pretending to be a Falun Gong practitioner, he was in fact carrying out sabotage activities against Falun Gong.

November 17th, 2007, was the 18th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution, during which communism fell in former Czechoslovakia. 80 members of the European Celestial Marching Band, who are musicians that practise Falun Gong, came to Prague to alert the public to systematical abuses of human rights in China.

Zhuan Falun [the main text of Falun Dafa] was officially published in Polish on September 21st. The book has been translated into over thirty languages and published all over the world. Various press conferences, 'information days' and routine open air practice of Falun Gong have allowed more and more Polish people to understand Falun Gong.