Italy: Promoting Falun Gong at a Medical Forum in Turin

On the 5th of November 2004, the annual Italian Medical Forum was held in Turin. Over three hundred people from different social circles attended this conference. Italian Falun Gong practitioners were again invited to come to this conference and introduce Falun Gong to the participants.

In the conference, a group of Italian Dafa practitioners talked about Falun Gong’s principles and exercises in detail, telling people that Falun Gong not only improves health but also improves people’s moral standards. They presented a short history of Falun Gong and how the practice has spread to 100 million people in 60 countries. They also talked about the terrible human rights abuses that are being committed in China to force practitioners to renounce their belief in Falun Gong. The participants listened attentively and enthusiastically asked questions. Accompanied by the exercise music, the practitioners demonstrated the five sets of Falun Gong exercises and then taught them to the audience. Everyone learned earnestly and seriously.

When the forum finished, lots of people expressed their own opinions. Some were attracted by Dafa’s profundity and wanted to start practicing straight away; some were outraged by China’s violation of human rights, showing sympathy and support for the practitioners who have been suffering. Many people bought Falun Gong exercise music CDs and even more people asked where Falun Gong’s main text Zhuan Falun could be purchased. People came over to get leaflets and I a few short hours hundreds and people found out about Falun Gong.