Finland: Finnish Christians Encourage Falun Gong Practitioners to Continue Working Hard against the Persecution

On June 14th, 2008, during Finland’s summer touring season, Falun Gong practitioners returned to Helsinki railway station to raise awareness about Falun Gong and the persecution of practitioners in China. The Chinese Communist Party has been persecuting mainland China’s Falun Gong practitioners for nine years.

A Korean tourist told a practitioner, “I know Korean people all like Falun Gong. I have read a lot of news relating to the CCP’s persecution of Christians, and I believe the persecution of Falun Gong should be stopped. In a communist country, these sort of things are everywhere. I also saw some news in connection with Falun Gong. Hope you continue to work hard on the anti-persecution, keep on doing it.”

Another practitioner met a radio producer. At the beginning when she heard it was relating to China, she said she didn’t have an interest in China, she had never been to China, and Communism is so bad and the CCP also does bad things in other countries. When Anija told her about the persecution of Falun Gong she said, "Why is the prosecution is still going on? When can it be stopped? Why still let the CCP run the Olympic Games?"

Though she hated the CCP, she still thought that the traditional Chinese culture was pretty good. It’s simply that the current culture in China is totally different from the traditional Chinese culture. Anija told her that the Divine Performance Art Group would come to perform in Finland the next year, and it’s a traditional Chinese culture performance without any CCP culture. The supervisor happily replied that if the performance came to Helsinki, she would be very interested in it. Finally she signed her name on the petition form.

A Finnish gentleman not only signed his name, but also asked other people to sign their names. He said that the CCP had killed many Tibetan people, and also killed Falun Gong practitioners, Falun Gong practitioners are good people.