Local Events
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France: People From all Walks of Society Join New Year Celebration Dinner Party (Photos)
2003-03-18These magnificent performances, and the peaceful and harmonious atmosphere, touched the hearts of the audience. They have understood the deeper meaning of Truthfulness, Benevolence, Forbearance from another perspective, and what realms these principles may enable human beings to achieve. They have also understood that only evil would persecute Falun Gong. -
Germany: Practitioners Present the Facts About Falun Gong at a Meeting of General Committee for University Students
2003-03-14The attendees saw the peacefulness of Falun Gong practitioners, the spreading of Falun Gong around the world and the fierceness and cruelty of Jiangs regime, who is nothing but a group of evil political scoundrels. -
UK: Revealing the Facts of the Persecution in Leicester on International Womens Day
2003-03-10As we came down from the stage, the MP thanked us and said she had found our exercise demonstration very interesting. We then went to the media room and asked if we could talk to the reporter from a local radio station. Although the radio reporter had a full schedule of people to interview, I was given an interview. The presenter was very sympathetic to Falun Gong and disturbed by the persecution. I was able to talk about the female family members of UK practitioners who are being persecuted in China. -
Latvia: Dafa Practitioner Meets President During Art Exhibition in Riga
2003-03-09Local media, government officials, artists and art lovers in their hundreds attended the opening. The administrators of the gallery were so impressed with the the exhibition that they waived the usual fee for using the gallery, provided free advertising for the exhibition and presented Zhang Cui Ying with flowers. -
France: Celebrating the First Anniversary of Fontenay-sous-Bois Falun Dafa Day
2003-03-08Fontenay-sous-Bois is near Paris in France. Last year it announced March 2nd as Falun Dafa Day. One year later, Mayor Jean-Francois Voguet sent a letter to Falun Gong practitioners to declare once again his support for Falun Gong. -
Germany: Teaching the Exercises and Revealing the Truth in Bielefeld Fitness Centre
2003-03-08On the afternoon of March 1st, sixteen people came to the free Falun Dafa exercise class, including two coaches from the fitness centre. The effects we received were quite remarkable. People left with a deep impression about the goodness of Dafa and we made an appointment for the same time next week. -
UK: University Starts a Weekly Radio Programme About Falun Gong
2003-03-06A PhD at Manchester University (UMIST) was invited to talk on the show. His fiancée has been imprisoned in Beijing because she practises Falun Gong. When the students heard the news, they all felt astonished. They could not believe that these kinds of things are still occurring in the world today. -
Germany: Activities to Rescue our Friends During an Information Day in Hamburg (photos)
2003-03-05We collected many petition signatures to rescue Falun Gong practitioners who are imprisoned in China, including Xiong Wei, who previously studied at Berlin Industrial University. She was sent to a forced labour camp for distributing leaflets about the persecution of Falun Gong in Beijing. -
Italy: Spreading the Fa in Padova
2003-03-03More and more Italian citizens are establishing positive understandings about Falun Gong. There are less and less people being fooled by Jiang Zemins lies in Italy. The practitioners commented that they would hold similar activities on a regular basis in the future. -
Italy: Falun Gong Practitioners Invited to Explain the Truth of the Persecution at a Summit on Freedom of Religion and Belief
2003-03-02After the summit, the students surrounded the practitioners and asked for Dafa materials as well as the persecution video. The philosophy teacher who organised this summit asked to learn the exercises. Those who attended the summit expressed the wish to help more people come to realise the facts of this persecution. -
Sweden: Article 23 Helps a Tyrant to do Evil
2003-03-02On the morning of the 26 February 2003, some Falun Gong practitioners from Stockholm gathered in front of the Chinese Embassy in Sweden to protest against the Article 23 legislation in Hong Kong. -
Spain: Information Day on the Island of Tenerife
2003-02-25By noon we had unexpectedly handed out all the leaflets, so we hurried to have more printed. We gave out over 2,000 leaflets in a single day. Many residents asked about the local practice sites where they can learn the exercises for free, and some of them even learned the exercises on the spot. -
One Visit Leads to Another
2003-02-25I was invited to my local Amnesty International group in Mönsterås in the southeast of Sweden, to tell them about Falun Gong. There were eight ladies of different ages in the group and they told me that they had heard and read some things about Falun Gong, and now they wanted to find out the true facts. -
Ukraine: An Israeli Practitioners Experiences During a Stay in Ukraine
2003-02-23At the airport, when I was reading Zhuan Falun, someone approached me and asked, What is this? Falun Dafa? I replied that it was and showed him that it said Falun Dafa on my coat. He called his wife and told her with much excitement, Look, look, Falun Dafa! -
French Practitioners Introduce Falun Gong during Chinese New Year on the Island of Martinique
2003-02-23Martinique people showed great interest in Falun Gong and felt shocked to learn that Falun Gong practitioners in China are not allowed to practise the exercises, and are suffering inhuman persecution. The largest newspaper in Martinique, France Antilles published two announcements about Falun Gong activities (left).