Local Events

  • Switzerland: Falun Dafa Information Day in Zurich City Centre

    Even though it was drizzling on May 20th, 2006, Falun Gong practitioners from Switzerland held another Falun Gong information day in Parade Square, Zurich. Many people watched practitioners demonstrate the Falun Gong exercises, and reading the information on the display boards about the spread of Falun Gong around the world.
  • Germany: Global Democratic China Conference Urging Instant Investigation into the Facts of Organ Harvesting from Living People in China

    The Global democratic China and Asia Conference held in Berlin, Germany, passed a resolution urging the international community to instantly investigate organ harvesting on live people in China. In the meeting on Tuesday, Canadian representative Xue Sheng read the draft of this resolution. The draft appeals to all governments, parliaments and human rights organisations to pay instant attention to the severe human rights violation happening in China.
  • Switzerland: A Representative from Geneva City Council Condemns the CCP Crime of Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Gong Practitioners

    On May 9th, 2006, three representatives from the Swiss Falun Gong Association visited Geneva City Council. They were received by one of five city councilors, the Minster of the Department of Culture, Patrice Mugny and others. The Swiss Falun Gong Association representatives explained to them about the CCP's crimes of organ harvesting.
  • Finland: Protest Against the Inhuman Persecution of Falun Gong

    On April 22nd, 2006, Finnish Falun Gong practitioners displayed banners and photos depicting the persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China. They simply wanted to expose the Chinese Communist regime’s persecution of Falun Gong practitioners, who cultivate according to the principles of “Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance.”
  • Germany: Practitioners Rally in Munich to Celebrate World Falun Dafa Day

    In 1992, on May 13th, the founder of Falun Gong, Mr. Li Hongzhi, started to spread Falun Gong in Changchun. He unsealed people’s Buddha nature, which was hidden for a long time, with the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance, and pointed out a cultivation way to return to one’s original, true self.
  • Belgium: Falun Gong Practitioners Celebrate World Dafa Day in Ghent

    On May 13th, Falun Dafa practitioners held activities to celebrate World Falun Dafa Day. Practitioners demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises while children and parents queued for balloons with a message reading "Falun Dafa is good".
  • Germany: Telling the People of Leipzig about the Persecution of Falun Dafa

    On May 13th 2006, to celebrate Falun Dafa Day, German practitioners in Leipzig held an information day downtown to let the local people know about the persecution of Falun Gong. Many pedestrians happily took flyers and earnestly viewed photos. Some people requested to sign their names to support or enquired how to start to practise Falun Gong.
  • Austria: Exhibition of Practitioners' Paintings at Castle Schlaining

    The international “Truthfulness-Compassion-Tolerance” art exhibition can be viewed at Castle Schlaining. Arts and Culture Association “Ars Cara” organised an exhibition of twenty nine paintings and photographs. All artists are practitioners of the spiritual practice Falun Gong, which was banned in China in 1999.
  • Norway: Promoting Falun Gong on Norwegian National Day

    May 17th is Norway's National Day. In every Norwegian city and town, people hold grand celebrations and activities. On this day, Norwegians no matter male or female, no matter old or young dress in beautiful traditional costumes, wave national flags and take to the street to celebrate National Day. This year, practitioners took part too.
  • United Kingdom: Practitioners Celebrate World Falun Dafa Day in London

    For fourteen years Falun Gong has been spreading in China and abroad by word of mouth, purifying people’s minds and bodies. Now it has spread to nearly eighty countries and regions across the world. The first annual World Falun Dafa Day was held on May 13th, 2000, shortly after the CCP started persecuting Falun Gong.
  • Sweden: Celebrating World Falun Gong Day in Stockholm

    On Saturday May 13th, 2006, Swedish practitioners celebrated the 14th anniversary of Falun Gong’s introduction to the public. Practitioners held a four-hour celebration, with activities including dancing and singing, demonstrations of the Falun Gong exercises, a photo display, art exhibition and paper lotus flower making.
  • Finland: Falun Gong Practitioners Celebrate World Falun Dafa Day

    On World Falun Dafa Day, Finnish Falun practitioners celebrated in a park in Helsinki city centre and respectfully expressed good wishes for Master’s fifty-fifth birthday. A banner reading “Falun Gong is good” was hung on one side of the park. In front of the banner, practitioners played waist-drums and demonstrated the five Falun Gong exercises.
  • Holland: Expressing Support for the Ten Million Withdrawals from the Chinese Communist Party

    Falun Gong practitioners gathered in Dam Square in Amsterdam. Along with the service centre for withdrawing from the Chinese Communist Party in the Netherlands and the volunteers from the Epoch Times, they expressed support for the ten million brave people who withdrew from the CCP and exposed the CCP crime of taking organ from live people.
  • Germany: Mannheim is Shocked by the Organ Harvesting from Live Falun Gong Practitioners in China

    Practitioners organised an information day in Mannheim. They informed passers-by of the gruesome harvesting of organs from live Falun Gong practitioners in China’s hidden concentration camps, which was perpetrated for economic profit. They told the listeners how the bodies are cremated after the organs are removed so as to destroy all the evidence.
  • Czech Republic: People Call for an End to the Persecution at a Non-Profit Organisation Exhibition

    Falun Gong practitioners took part in a non-profit organisation exhibition held in Prague, the capital of Czech republic. There were leaflets in Czech and English and various kinds of pictures at the Falun Gong exhibition booth. Those leaflets and pictures told people that Falun Gong practitioners are suffering the persecution by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). There are even concentration camps in China where Falun Gong practitioner’s organs are removed while they are still alive.