Letters from Dafa Associations, Local Events, Press Conferences , Meeting VIPs & Officials

  • Italy: 'Lotus Flowers' in Full Bloom on Great Paradise Mountain

    On Valsavarenche Vale, 2,000 kilometres above sea level, Falun Gong practitioners joined the "Healing of Mother Earth" event at the invitation of the "Where Eagles Fly" Association. Afterwards, Anna, the activity organiser, expressed her gratitude to practitioners: “We will never forget the picture of these lotus flowers in full bloom on this snow-crested mountain.”
  • Spain: Introducing Falun Dafa and Revealing the Persecution in Catalonia (2): Attending the Spring Festival in Gav

    While everyone was sitting in meditation, a team of reporters from a local TV station arrived. When the reporters discovered that it was Falun Gong, one of them said, “Yes, Falun Dafa. I know about Falun Gong, and I saw in the newspaper about the persecution of Falun Gong in China. It seems to be a very peaceful and quiet practise though.”
  • Russia: Moscow Residents Learn About Falun Dafa During a Celebration Hosted by the United Nations Refugee Council

    June 20th 2004 was World Refugee Day. The office of the United Nations Refugee Council in Moscow organised an outdoor celebration activity in the city’s Youth Palace and Falun Gong took part, distributing leaflets and demonstrating the exercises. Many people readily came to learn the truth about Falun Gong. The organiser of the programme said happily to practitioners, “It is such a wonderful cultivation way; I must learn it. Could you give me more materials so that I can share them with my friends and we could learn together.”
  • Fadu in Sweden (2): Appealing for the Children of Falun Dafa Practitioners Being Persecuted in China

    With only a few simple words and sentences, as well as hand-folded lotus flowers and peaceful Falun Gong exercises, Fadu appealed to Swedish children to assist in stopping the persecution of Falun Gong in China, and to rescue the children of the Falun Gong practitioners who are subjected to tremendous suffering.
  • Russia: Moscow Practitioners Introduce Falun Dafa at the People's Health Exhibition

    To honour Dafa practitioners’ positive contribution to the “For Citizens’ Health” Exhibition, the local government awarded the Moscow Falun Dafa Association a diploma. Practitioners set up an exhibition of various information boards, distributed flyers and other materials that explained Falun Dafa and the facts of the persecution.
  • Spain: Introducing Falun Dafa and Revealing the Persecution in Catalonia

    Most of the participants were advocates of nature and environmental protection. Practitioners introduced Falun Dafa from the perspective of health by sharing personal stories of how they’ve gained a healthy body and mind, a life full of energy and an upgrade of their moral standards after practising Falun Gong and living by the principles of Truthfulness, Benevolence, and Tolerance.
  • Sweden: Promoting Falun Dafa and Exposing the Persecution in Arivika City

    June the 13th was the day of the Arivika Hamnfestival. Last year, practitioners dressed in yellow and joined the festival to promote Falun Dafa and reveal the facts of the persecution taking place in China. This year, practitioners were invited by the local authorities to introduce Falun Gong at the festival.
  • Fadu in Sweden (1): Crossing the Pacific Ocean to Make Good Friends in Northern Europe

    In early May, Fadu visited Northern Europe for the first time. She and her mother were invited to attend forums on China’s human rights situation, which were being held in four Northern European countries. Even though Fadu is only four, she has experienced the extremes of the world's benevolence and wickedness.
  • Russia: Introducing Falun Gong to a Moscow Automobile Factory

    Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises as part a health-watch activity called “Help Yourself,” which was organised by a Moscow automobile factory and took place on June 5th 2004. The presentation took place in the afternoon, in a hall jam-packed with about one hundred people.
  • Austria: The Falun Dafa Information Centre Held a Press Conference in Vienna

    The Austrian Falun Dafa Information Centre held a press conference in Vienna on June the 17th 2004. The press conference detailed a series of activities, the theme of which was to be “jointly putting to a stop to China’s persecution of Falun Gong practitioners”. Two Falun Gong practitioners then recounted abuses suffered by themselves or their family members.
  • Sweden: Introducing Falun Dafa in the City of Sunne

    On June the 19th, an introduction to Falun Dafa was held in Sunne. The invitation had come from a woman who, after reading Falun Dafa’s introductory book, became fascinated by its profound principles and wanted to learn more. Afterwards, the attendees said that they had experienced a very nice feeling when performing the exercises.
  • Hungary: Promoting Falun Gong at a Sports Festival in Budapest

    Between June the 11th and June the 13th, Falun Gong practitioners from Hungary, Slovakia and Germany introduced Falun Dafa at a Sports Festival, which is held annually in the Hungarian capital of Budapest. The festival activities began at eleven in the morning and ended at six in the evening every day and over two hundred thousand people took part.
  • Rally in Vienna Calls for an Immediate End to the Persecution of Falun Gong

    On the afternoon of the 19th of June 2004, tourists and citizens of Vienna were deeply touched, and some moved to tears as they listened to speeches at a rally exposing the persecution of Falun Gong. The rally was part of a programme of large-scale events held by several hundred European practitioners to help more people understand the campaign of genocide initiated by Jiang Zemin.
  • United Kingdom: Promoting Falun Gong on Cambridge Children’s Day

    Dafa practitioners participated in Cambridge Children’s Day, which was organised by the local Council. They showed children how to practise the Falun Gong exercises as well as how to make paper lotus flowers. They also told them about “Petals of Peace” so that the seeds of Truthfulness, Benevolence and Forbearance could be planted in the children’s hearts, and hoped to motivate the children in the UK so that they could help the persecuted children in China.
  • Germany: "We Have Decided Not to Accept this Kind of Magazine Anymore"

    "The college I study at is a translation school. Since many foreign students come to study Chinese here, this college maintains a close relationship with China and the cultural exchange between the two is quite frequent..."