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  • 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.
  • Falun Dafa Practitioners in Europe Wish Revered Master Happy Birthday and Celebrate World Falun Dafa Day

    On May 13 every year, Falun Dafa practitioners across the world send greeting cards and letters to Falun Dafa websites wishing revered Master happy birthday and celebrating World Falun Dafa Day. Greetings from practitioners in Europe are organised and posted. Only a small portion of the greetings received are translated and listed here.
  • Princess Michael: Shen Yun a ‘Marvellous Evening’

    HRH Princess Michael of Kent was among the special guests at the opening night of Shen Yun Performing Arts at The London Coliseum, on April 5. At a reception after the show, the Princess briefly addressed the audience of around 180 guests, saying it was a “great honour and a pleasure” to be there and that she was “completely obsessed” with Chinese culture.
  • London's West End Welcomes Shen Yun

    Shen Yun Performing Arts Touring Company opened its run of West End performances to a delighted audience in London on Tuesday, April 5. Actor Jamie Cho said that the performances were fantastic and the dances beautiful. “The dancers were great. The two singers were amazing—the tenor and the soprano.” He was also particularly taken by the performance on the two stringed erhu.
  • Italy: Shen Yun Brings Traditional Chinese Culture to Historic Florence

    Shen Yun opened at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino on Tuesday evening, March 1, with a colourful and exhilarating performance of classical Chinese dance and music to a delighted audience. Shen Yun brought a taste of traditional Chinese culture to Florence, capital of the Italian region of Tuscany.
  • Germany: Audiences Drawn to Shen Yun's Beauty, Grace and Inner Meaning in Frankfurt

    The Shen Yun Performing Arts Touring Company began its 2011 European Tour in Frankfurt, Germany, staging three shows at Jahrhunderthalle Frankfurt on February 26-27, 2011. This was the second time in two years that Mr. Khajehamid had seen the show. He said that he was completely captivated with the performance, from beginning to end.
  • Local Media in Germany Spread the Facts about Falun Gong

    Cham is the east gate of the Bavarian Forest in southern Germany, and the locals are very sincere and honest. Falun Gong practitioners often visited local newspaper offices to clarify the facts about Falun Gong. The newspapers who learned about the true situation made efforts to spread the facts about Falun Gong.
  • 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.
  • Germany: German-Speaking Area Fa Conference Held Successfully

    On the afternoon of December 28, 2010, the German-speaking Falun Dafa Cultivation Experience Sharing Conference was held in Wewelsburg, Germany. Eight Western and Chinese Falun Gong practitioners shared their Fa-rectification cultivation experiences.
  • Turkey: Praise for Truth-Compassion-Forbearance International Art Exhibition in Istanbul

    From January 1 to 7, 2011, the Truth-Compassion-Forbearance International Art Exhibition was held for the second time in Istanbul, Turkey's business capital. The exhibition was held inside the Kadikoy District government building and won the praise of government officials and local people from all walks of life.
  • 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.
  • United Kingdom: European Divine Land Marching Band in London to Support Withdrawals from the CCP

    On December 30, 2010, the UK Quit the CCP Service Centre held a rally in front of the Chinese Embassy in London followed by a march through the downtown area to voice support for the 8.7 million people who have quit the CCP and its affiliated organizations. The European Divine Land Marching Band participated in the event.
  • 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.
  • Practitioners from Moldova Respectfully Wish Master a Happy New Year