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

  • Slovakia: Mayor of the City of Pezinok Attended Falun Gong Appeal to Sign a Petition calling for and End to the Persecution

    Saturday the 26th of February began as a nice, sunny day so practitioners of Falun Gong took advantage of the good weather to visit Pezinok city. They called for public attention to the persecution against Falun Gong, which has continued for almost six years. Documented evidence details the killing of 1,379 practitioners, although Chinese Government estimates put the unofficial figure close to 10,000.
  • Romania: Exposing the Persecution to the Local Chinese People

    During the holiday period of the Chinese New Year, a group of Romanian Falun Gong practitioners distributed leaflets to local Chinese people despite a temperature of minus ten degrees. Many Chinese people were happy to accept the information and find out the truth about Falun Gong and the campaign of genocide that has been waged against practitioners in China by the Communist Party. Several new practitioners also participated in the activities.
  • German Media reports on a Seminar exposing Human Rights Violations in China

    Practitioners from Cham city in Germany and a local representative from the International Society for Human Rights held a seminar entitled “The Current Situation of Human Rights Violations in China”. Local newspapers reported on this event, including an article entitled “Lies cannot withstand exposure” in Chamer Zeitung and another entitled “Experiencing Injustice” in Bayerwald-Echo.
  • European Practitioners' Chinese New Year Celebration Activities: Part 5 - Positive Responses from the Public

    After getting to know the truth further, people condemned the Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, praised Falun Gong practitioners for bringing the beauty of Chinese culture to the French people and showed their support for those who still persist in opposing the persecution peacefully.
  • European Practitioners' Chinese New Year Celebration Activities in Paris: Part 4 - Hail and Rain Could Not Stop the Events

    Following the Chinese New Year celebration parade on Saturday the 12th of February, European Falun Gong practitioners gathered at the Eiffel Tower on the 13th to display the beauty of Falun Gong to tourists from around the world and to let more people know about the brutal persecution against practitioners in China.
  • Russia: Collecting Petition Signatures in St. Petersburg to call for an End to the Persecution

    Many passers-by were shocked when they found out what is happening in China from seeing pictures of Falun Gong practitioners being tortured by the Chinese authorities. People found it incomprehensible that such a terrible thing could be happening in today’s world. They were touched and signed a petition to call for an end to the human rights abuses.
  • Holland: Practitioners were Invited to Demonstrate Falun Gong Exercises to a Church Congregation

    A priest invited Dutch Falun Gong practitioners to introduce the practice and demonstrate the Falun Gong exercises in an Amsterdam church. After listening to the practitioners’ talk, one lady stated that she would never believe the lies of the Chinese Communist regime again. The priest and congregation members learned the first set of Falun Gong exercises.
  • European Practitioners' Chinese New Year Celebration Activities: Part 2 - Press Conference

    European Falun Gong practitioners’ Chinese New Year celebrations started with a press conference. The first speaker, the Chairman of the French Falun Gong Association, said that under the persecution initiated by Jiang Zemin and the Chinese Communist Party, nearly 1,400 Falun Gong practitioners have lost their lives and hundreds of thousands of others are being tortured in forced labour camps.
  • Sweden: Introducing Falun Gong at Helsjön College

    I am a Falun Gong practitioner and I’m studying Music in Helsjön College, 70km southwest of Gothenburg. There are about 120 students in the school and lots of them are Christian, so I had the chance to talk about spiritual issues with them. They were curious about Falun Gong. I provided them with some information and now I run an exercise class every Thursday before lunch. Students come to learn the exercises, and also hear about the persecution.
  • European Practitioners' Chinese New Year Celebration Activities: Part 1 - Preparation Work

    Although many practitioners didn’t know specifically which activities they were going to be involved in, everyone was lively and ready to help wherever they could. An exercise demonstration was followed by sending righteous thoughts; whilst some practitioners talked with passers by about the persecution and gave out leaflets.
  • Germany: Western Practitioners in Passau City continued to Raise Awareness about the Persecution, Despite the Rain

    One of the practitioners demonstrated the exercises and sent forth righteous thoughts whilst the other distributed leaflets to passers by, telling them about the Chinese Communist Party and the Jiang regime’s cruel persecution of Falun Gong practitioners over the last five years. Although the petition form was wet from the rain, there were still people signing it, calling for an end to the persecution of Falun Gong.
  • Russia: Promoting Falun Gong and Appealing for People’s Concern for China’s Persecuted Practitioners

    Practitioners from St. Petersburg, Moscow and Saratov gathered at the subway station of Kirovsko in St. Petersburg. The main aim of this activity was to introduce the practice of Falun Gong to the locals, expose the Chinese Communist Party’s brutal persecution under the Jiang regime and appeal for justice and conscience.
  • Sweden: Presenting Falun Gong at a Health Expo in Skövde

    At the same time as the exercises were shown, one of the practitioners spoke to the audience about what Falun Gong is and what cultivation is and what effects the exercises have. She also told everyone that Falun Gong-practitioners have been subjected to over five years of brutal persecution in China at the hands of the communist regime.
  • Austria: Predestined Encounters during an Experience Sharing Gathering in Vienna

    Three of the youth hostel residents joined me in the hostel’s main hall. They had come to Vienna from Israel. Once they saw the Falun Dafa banner on the wall they were curious about what it represented. One of them joined me for a while and I told him about Falun Gong and the persecution in China. He was already familiar with other qigong practices and was delighted to hear that there was a Falun Gong group exercise practice the next day. It was astounding to see him next morning; he was already able to do the first four exercises from beginning to end.
  • Ukraine: Practitioners Receive a Warm Welcome at “Valentine's Day” Activities

    Ukrainian Dafa practitioners were invited to attend a “Love and Friendship” performance held by a children’s library, as part of Valentine’s Day celebrations. They performed a beautiful lotus flower dance and held an activity in the name of ‘Petals of Peace’. 'Petals of Peace' symbolises hope for all the children who are suffering during the on-going persecution of Falun Gong in China.