During intermission, business owner Dieter Röhlen said that he felt the performance was very good, and interesting. The historical stories, beautiful costumes and wonderful dancing made him feel relaxed. He thought the best performance was "The Risen Lotus Flower," about Falun Gong practitioners. He said that the theme reflected the current reality and that it was meaningful.

Divine Performing Arts (DPA) is scheduled to perform in Stockholm on March 24th-26th and in Linkoping on March 27th. The Chinese Embassy in Stockholm threatened that relations between the Linkoping and China would deteriorate if the show was not stopped. The city government of Linkoping rebuffed the Chinese Embassy's threats. For the past few days the Swedish national news media has reported the incident. Last Friday a Chinese Embassy official called Johan Lundgren, chief of the Cultural and Recreational Board of Linkoping, and demanded that DPA performances be stopped, or relations between Linkoping and China would be affected.

"Well sung! Once more!", shouted some of the tourists after hearing the song. Some on the verge of tears told the practitioners quietly, “We actually know that the CCP is not good. We do not dare to receive the materials because we do not know about Falun Gong and also because we are afraid that some will inform against us. But we will not be against Falun Gong now”.

Regarding the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners that is happening in China, she said, “This is entirely wrong. No one should be persecuted just because he practices sitting meditation and learns to be a good person and cares about other people”. After learning about the CCP atrocities of live organ removal from Falun Gong practitioners, a nun said, “Those Falun Gong practitioners who are jailed in concentration camps are maltreated, killed and missing. All this is not acceptable. This should not have happened. I am so shocked by the fact that this even has happened. That is why I am signing as a small help to stop this.”

On the morning of January 30th, 2008, Falun Gong practitioners from Irkutsk and Tomsk made it to the Chinese market in Omsk City with two large bags of leaflets and distributed them to Chinese people in the market in the run up to the Lunar New Year. Nearly 80 to 90 percent of the Chinese people there were pleased to accept the information, including a special issue of the Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party (an editorial by The Epoch Times newspaper) and other material about Falun Gong.

On February 2nd, 2008, German Falun Gong practitioners held an 'Information Day' in the city of Frankfurt to expose the Chinese Communist Party’s poor human rights record and the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in mainland China. Local people signed their names on a petition to express their support for an end to the persecution in a peaceful way.

On February 2nd, 2008, an International Truthfulness Compassion Forbearance Art Exhibition opened in an exhibition hall of a private gallery in КРАСНОRРСК City in СHENРB Region, Siberia. Before that, the exhibition was held at the national Cultural Historical Museum for two weeks and attracted a lot of attention from local media and the general public.

The Greek Clear Harmony website aims to give readers first hand information about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China, to display the voices of support for Falun Gong from all over the world, to let readers know the efforts made by Falun Gong practitioners to stop this persecution, and to provide a forum for practitioners across Europe to share their thoughts and views.

Soon after beginning to practise, they learned about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in mainland China. Ursula said, “We wanted to tell all the people around us at the very beginning that genocide was happening in China. Later, the extent of the persecution grew wider and wider. We wanted to help those who were being persecuted in China".

With lecture videos introducing Falun Gong being shown from Geneva to Luzern, from Zurich to the Capital Berne and from metropolises to rural villages, the number of practitioners has grown bigger and bigger and Falun Gong practice sites have set up one after another. As a result, more people have started to know and practise Falun Gong in Switzerland.

Falun Gong was first heard of in the French-speaking area and then the German-speaking area in Geneva. A Chinese doctor started to tell the people she had known after she had practised Falun Gong. Very soon, the number of Falun Gong practitioners in Geneva grew bigger and bigger by word of mouth, from heart to heart.

Shen Yun Performing Arts will perform in the Swedish Capital Stockholm and Linkoping between March 24th and 27th. When the news was released, the Chinese Embassy in Sweden called to threaten relevant cultural department last Friday, trying to stop the performances. All major Swedish media exposed this attempt. DN.se News Daily, Swedish TV station SVT, Radio station SR, Expressen, Corren Daily and other media reported the incident on Saturday.

The international exhibition of photographs "For a Higher Truth" visited the island of Vinön. On July 22nd, the doors of the Mission House were opened, and the little island on Lake Hjälmaren became a global meeting place. People from many different parts of the world had a chance to take part in the beautiful and moving photographs with the theme of Falun Gong.

On the 26th of January 2008, Falun Gong practitioners held activities in Brussels’s Chinatown to expose the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)'s brutal persecution of Falun Gong and support the thirty million withdrawals from the evil CCP. Some westerners asked for materials and talked with practitioners for a long time to learn the truth about the persecution in China.

The Dutch Foreign Minister said China’s human rights records are worsening in the run-up to the Olympics. According to Reuters, on the 18th of January, 2008, a discussion on China’s human rights record and the Olympics Games was held in The Hague, Holland. At the meeting, the Dutch Foreign Minister said that in the run-up to the Olympics, China’s human rights records was worsening, the issue of human rights should be addressed to Beijing.

On Saturday, January 12th, 2008, Falun Gong practitioners in the UK held an activity at the Chinese Embassy in London. They rallied to express support for the 30 million brave people who have withdrawn from the evil Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and its associated organisations. They were also raising awareness about “Millions of Signatures” a global initiative started up by the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG).

During activities at the Chinese Consulate in Munich, one practitioner said very emotionally, “It’s so quick. The number needs to be updated again”. When Falun Gong practitioners held a rally here two weeks ago, the number of people who announced their withdrawals worldwide was thirty million.

Falun Gong practitioners couldn’t understand why the CCP persecutes such good people, who cultivate themselves according to “Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance”. When talking about how he felt at that time, a practitioner named Sven said, “I really did not believe my eyes and ears. I did not understand why on earth it does this? Why does it persecute those kind people? Just for their wanting to be healthy, cultivating Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance and be good people".

Falun Gong practitioners held an event in Frankfurt to raise awareness about the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong in China among German people. Quite a few people learned the Falun Gong exercises after they heard the truth and a Chinese tourist quit the CCP on the spot. One Chinese tourist told Falun Gong practitioners that he knew how corrupt the CCP was, how acute the social conflict was in China and he said he also knew about the persecution of Falun Gong.

"The European Parliament on January 17th passed a resolution urging Beijing to immediately release China human rights advocate Hu Jia and other Chinese political prisoners in custody. The resolution said that the thirty four year old Hu was famous for his braveness in giving a speech with regard to China's political and human rights issues. After his arrest On December 27th of last year, until now there is no sign to indicate he will be released ... "

On January 19th, 2008, Irish practitioners held an activity to gather signatures to support an end to the persecution of Faun Gong in China. Many Irish people lined up in the rain to sign the One Million Signature Campaign, which was launched by the Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong (CIPFG) and to end the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong.

On the 12th of January 2008, Munich welcomed large groups of Chinese people, mostly spectators of the China-Germany game. Seeing Falun Gong practitioners’ activities at Marienplatz, many took photos excitedly in front of banners urging to quit the CCP. A student praised practitioners aloud, “You are so brave!” Many Chinese read the exhibits carefully.

"While working, I can get cold, dirty and strained. Some of my colleagues will speak say dirty words; it is really difficult to reach the level of “Tolerance”. Sometimes, I make it, I feel very happy. Sometimes I fail to do it well, I will try to look inward and make an effort to do it well next time. Actually, how we are thinking, every thought and every idea is very important."

Many Swedish Falun Gong practitioners learned about Falun Gong by participating in a Falun Gong class, which is different from other countries. On April 6th 1995, Mr. Li Hongzhi, founder of Falun Gong came to Sweden. He held five public lectures. From 14th and 20th of April, Mr. Li held the second Falun Gong class overseas in Nordgarden, Gothenburg

Falun Gong has spread throughout the world. In many countries, people came to know Falun Gong through introductions by other Falun Gong practitioners, or through the Internet and reports in the media. However, Falun Gong practitioners from Sweden in Europe are different as the founder of Falun Dafa came to Sweden in 1995 and introduced the practice in person.

As has become customary on Sundays in Paris, Falun Gong practitioners went to Human Rights Square near the Eiffel Tower to expose the Chinese Communist regime’s inhuman persecution of Falun Gong practitioners. They spoke to tourists from various countries around the world and distributed leaflets with information about Falun Gong and the persecution.

In November, 2007, Falun Gong practitioners in Finland introduced Falun Dafa and exposed the persecution of Falun Gong in China to the Finnish people in Helsinki. Two practitioners demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises to peaceful, traditional-style Chinese music. Banners and posters depicting the persecution attracted the attention of shoppers and passersby and they came to practitioners' desk to sign the petition and express their support for the campaign against the persecution.

In December 2007, Ukrainian 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 have been illegally sent to labour camps and have even been tortured to death.

On the 29th of December, the European Divine Land Marching Band paraded through the main streets and Chinese quarter of Paris, France, showing people the beauty of Falun Dafa. Others in the parade supported the wave of renouncements of CCP membership, which now total over 30 million. Nearly two hundred practitioners took part in the parade.