Germany: Stories of Promoting Falun Gong and Raising Awareness of the Persecution

This article shares several short stories from practitioners’ activities to promote Falun Gong and raise awareness of the persecution that has already taken the lives of over 1300 innocent people in China.

A Falun Dafa Information Day was held in Nurnberg, a city located in southern Germany, on December 10th 2004. A middle-aged gentleman looked at every photo and illustrated drawing very carefully and then discussed them with several practitioners. He spent almost two hours developing an in-depth understanding of what Falun Gong is and how it is being violently persecuted in China. As night fell, he came back while we were packing up at the end of the day and strode towards a practitioner who had been persecuted in China. As he shook hands with the practitioner enthusiastically, he spoke loudly: “All those who persecute Falun Gong will be sentenced to hell. All Falun Gong practitioners will go to heaven. This is a world of justice!”

When a young mother her two year-old son passed by the Falun Gong stall on the same, the boy suddenly gripped a steel post on the sidewalk, which was installed to keep vehicles away from the pedestrian precinct. He refused to leave no matter how hard his mother tried to persuade him. The boy turned his head toward a practitioner and started chuckling. The practitioner walked towards the mother with a flyer in his hand. He joked with the mother that if she took the flyer the boy would loosen his grip. With a smile on her face, the young mother said dubiously, “Is that right?” As she accepted the flyer from the practitioner, the boy released his hands immediately. He then turned his body and faced his mother. He looked at his mother and the practitioner for a while. With his hands clapping, he laughed and happily continued along the street with his mother.

In early February 2005, a practitioner displayed photos about the persecution of Falun Gong and performed the exercises in the downtown area of Pirmasens, a town located in southern Germany. A Turkish gentleman lingered for a while in front of the photos and illustrated drawings. He left and came back twice. When the practitioner finished the exercises and tried to explain the truth to him in German, he indicated in broken German and hand gestures that he couldn’t quite understand. However, he pointed his finger at the photo of Gao Rongrong, a Falun Gong practitioner whose face was disfigured by electric shocks administered by the police in China. He nodded his head continuously; he couldn’t bear to see such a shocking picture. Tear drops fell from his face.