Local Events

  • Italy: Introducing Falun Gong in a Local Gymnasium in Padova

    On June 17, 2011, local practitioners from the region of Veneto introduced Falun Gong at the “Power Gym” facility in Padova, after being invited by the CESN (National Centre for Sport and Education in Italy). Practitioners explained how Falun Gong had become the most popular Qigong practice within only a few years of being introduced to the public in China in May 1992.
  • United Kingdom: Oxford City Councillor says, 'Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance Is Very Good'

    On July 3, 2001, Sunday, the Cowley Road Carnival presented “Carnival in the Park” in South Park, Oxford. Local Falun Gong practitioners, who were invited to join the event, set up a booth to demonstrate the exercises, introduce Falun Gong, and expose the CCP's brutal persecution of the practice.
  • Italy: A Falun Gong Activity and Press Conference in Rome

    On June 1, 2011, the Twelfth District government in Rome and Falun Gong practitioners jointly held an activity entitled "Stop the Persecution of Falun Gong" at the District Government Conference Hall. As a district government representative, Mr. Peter Roan Angelo Massaro, Chairman of the Sports and Culture Committee, attended the event.
  • Bulgaria: Celebrating World Falun Dafa Day in Ruse

    On May 16, 2011, Falun Gong practitioners held an event in Ruse, the fifth largest city in Bulgaria, to celebrate World Falun Dafa Day and to wish Master Li happy birthday. Many people came to know about Falun Gong for the first time and expressed their stand against the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong.
  • Russia: Celebrating World Falun Dafa Day in St. Petersburg

    On May 13, 2011, Falun Dafa practitioners in St. Petersburg, Russia celebrated World Falun Dafa on Children's Theatre Square. They held group practice, performed on waist drums and conducted other activities to introduce Falun Gong to the public.
  • Spain: Celebrating World Falun Dafa Day and Introducing Falun Dafa

    To celebrate World Falun Dafa Day (May 13) this year, Falun Gong practitioners in Spain held various events to introduce Falun Gong and expose the persecution taking place in China. In Madrid, Falun Gong practitioners held group practice in the well-known Retiro Park and introduced Falun Gong to visitors.
  • Romania: Practitioners Celebrate World Falun Dafa Day

    On May 13, the Romanian Falun Dafa Association held two events in Bucharest to celebrate World Falun Dafa Day and to expose the ongoing brutal persecution of practitioners in China. At the Drumul Taberei, local practitioners set up a photo display depicting the spread of Falun Dafa around the world over the past 19 years.
  • Slovakia: Celebrating World Falun Dafa Day, MEP Signs a Petition Calling for an End to the Persecution

    On Saturday, May 14, 2011, Falun Gong practitioners from Slovakia commemorated World Falun Dafa Day by holding an event in SNP Square in Bratislava. The passersby were drawn especially by the exercises, which the practitioners demonstrated. Many asked about the persecution in China and some signed a petition calling for an end to the persecution.
  • Germany: Information Day in Freiburg im Breisgau

    Practitioners held an information day activity in downtown Freiburg im Breisgau on Saturday, May 21, 2011. They continued their efforts to introduce Falun Gong and raise people's awareness about the brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) over the past ten plus years.
  • Czech Republic: Practitioners Celebrate World Falun Dafa Day and Continue Efforts to Raise Awareness

    May 13 is World Falun Dafa Day, also the 60th birthday of Master Li Hongzhi, founder of Falun Gong. Practitioners in the Czech Republic held activities on May 14, 2011, at Wenceslas Square, one of the largest squares in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, to continue their efforts to raise awareness about Falun Gong and the persecution.
  • Finland: Telling the Facts and Gain Public Support for Ending the Persecution

    January 27, 2011, was a day of low temperatures and a strong north wind in Helsinki, the capital of Finland. Braving the bitter cold, the Falun Gong practitioners in Finland held a candlelight vigil in front of the most popular city centre shopping mall, Stockman, to mourn those Falun Gong practitioners who were persecuted to death in China.
  • Austria: Introducing Falun Dafa at a Health Expo

    Falun Dafa practitioners introduced Falun Dafa at a health expo in Graz, a cultural city in Austria, on January 8 and 9, 2011. The expo attracted 16,000 people, mostly from Steiermark. Practitioners set up a booth with Falun Dafa books and music CDs, and demonstrated the exercises in yellow costumes.
  • Austria: Exposing the CCP’s Atrocities on International Human Rights Day

    On December 10, 2010, International Human Rights Day, Falun Gong practitioners in Austria held an Information Day activity at the city centre of Altenmarkt, Salzburg. The event brought awareness to the locals and tourists from around the world about the CCP’s brutal persecution of Falun Gong practitioners and called for an end to the CCP’s atrocities.
  • German People Condemn the CCP’s Persecution of Falun Gong

    On December 10, 2010, Falun Gong practitioners from Dortmund, a city in the western part of Germany, held an Information Day activity in the city centre to tell travellers about the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners’ human rights in China and to ask them to sign the petition condemning the CCP’s harvesting of organs from living Falun Gong practitioners.
  • Poland: Practitioners Spread the Facts in the City of Coal

    On the weekend of December 11-12, 2010, a number of Falun Gong practitioners in Poland came to the southern city of Katowice to introduce Falun Gong to the public and to spread the facts about the persecution of Falun Gong in China.