Italy: World Falun Dafa Day in Milan

On the afternoon of May 10th, Falun Gong practitioners in Italy went to Via Dante (the pedestrian walk-way near the Duomu in Milan) to hold activities in celebration of World Falun Dafa Day, expressing thanks for the benefits they had experienced through practising and wishing their Master a happy birthday.

Both Chinese and Western practitioners wore T-shirts worded with “Falun Dafa is Good, Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance. Some practitioners demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises while others distributed leaflets to tourists in a variety of languages.

May 13th is the 16th Anniversary of Falun Gong's introduction. For these past years, Falun Gong practitioners have not ceased raising awareness about the persecution. In Italy where Falun Gong is widely spread, people have felt and praised the peacefulness and goodness that Dafa has brought to the world and condemned the CCP continuing persecution of Falun Gong up to now.

While Italian practitioners were hanging a golden banner worded with “World Falun Dafa Day” tourists from all over the world and Italian people were deeply attracted by it. They stopped and watched, or went forward to talk to practitioners, or went to the information desk signing the petition against the persecution of Falun Gong by the CCP.

A lady found a practitioner and told her warmly that she had known earlier that Falun Gong is good. She lives in Milan now and wants to practise Falun Gong very much. At the same time, she was patiently telling a young man who came together with her the facts about Falun Gong being persecuted in China. When this young man understood the truth she was pleased and smiled.

After reading through the truth exhibition posters, a young couple from China were shocked by the cruelty of the persecution. They thought for a while and accepted some materials expressing that they would read them in detail. On knowing the truth after hearing what a practitioner told her, a girl who has just been abroad said she would withdraw from the communist Youth League and young Pioneers in her assumed name.

Carrying a camera, a young Filipino wanted to photograph the moves of practitioners doing the exercises and put them on his website, he thought that these movements were very meaningful and beautiful. When filming the half of it, he was informed that he could sign the petition in support of Falun Gong, he signed it without hesitation.

On this walk-way crowded with tourists, the banner with words of “World Falun Dafa Day” and beautiful and peaceful exercises was a bright scene. The sound of the camera shooting and “Bella”, (meaning beautiful) kept sounding, and more people gave a smile with admiration.