The City of Glasgow played host to Scotland's largest cultural event of the year on May 31, 2013, the West End Festival. Over 100 organizations, arts groups, and local and international artists participated in the popular event. Falun Gong practitioners set up a booth, demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises, collected petition signatures, and talked to passersby.

The practitioners used their annual leave to visit four schools where they taught the Falun Gong exercises and the importance of acting according to the principles of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance. They also informed the children about the Chinese Communist Party's persecution of Falun Gong in China. Danish newspaper, Bornholms Tidende, published an article about the practitioners' visit.

May has become a special month for Falun Dafa practitioners in Bulgaria in their efforts to tell people about Falun gong and the persecution in China. May sees events in some of the biggest cities in Bulgaria: Bourgass, Sliven, Dobrich, Plovdiv, Stara Zagora, Russe and the capital, Sofia.

As the practitioners began to demonstrate the exercises, the MC told the audience in German, “This is the Falun Gong group. It is a practice that is based on the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. It involves a set of five exercises that are suitable for people of all ages. Practising Falun Gong increases one's vital energy, while at the same time calming down one's mind.”

Practitioners in Poland held events for three consecutive days, June 14-16, 2013, to introduce Falun Gong and raise awareness about the communist regime's persecution of the practice in China. The events, held in the cities of Poznan and Krakow, attracted a lot of attention from the public.

The artwork depicted the tragedy of the ongoing persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China, as well as the beauty and depth of the practitioners' spiritual belief. The works, consisting mainly of oil paintings and Chinese pastels, touched the depths of people's souls, stirring their primal quest to understand humanity and the universe beyond.

On June 1, 2013, Falun Gong practitioners participated in Germany's 17th annual Carnival of Cultures, held in the City of Bielefeld. Around 2,000 participants and 70 ethnic groups from around the world performed before as many as 100,000 spectators. Festival organizers arranged for the Falun Gong procession to occupy the last spot in the parade lineup so that the Divine Land Marching Band, consisting of about 80 practitioners from 13 countries, could serve as the “grand finale” to the wildly popular event.

Helsinki hosted Finland's annual World Village Festival in Kaisaniemi Park and Railway Square on May 26 and 26. The popular event, which started back in 1995, attracted over 85,000 visitors. Ethnic groups from around the world met to exchange cultural views as well as music, food, dance, theatre and art. Finnish practitioners participated in the World Village Festival to raise awareness about the Chinese Communist Party persecution of Falun Gong.

The 9 th Military and Sports Forum, 'Ready for Labour and Defense,' was held in Moscow, Russia, on May 30-June 2, 2013. The event took place in Red Square, right next to the Kremlin, the seat of the Russian government. More than 70 groups took part in the occasion, including the Moscow Falun Dafa Association. The event promoted healthy living and an active lifestyle.

During his visit to Sweden on June 1-3, 2013, Yu Zhengsheng, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Politburo Standing Committee member, also chair of the Political Consultative Conference, saw Falun Gong practitioners' protesting the 14-year-long persecution. Practitioners stood in front of the Chinese Consulate in Gothenburg and in front of the Royal Palace in Stockholm where Yu met with Sweden's King.

On 2nd April 2013, International Art Exhibition “The Art of Zhen Shan Ren” opened at the Latvian Artists' Union Gallery (AUL) in Riga. At the opening, there were many famous Latvian artists, politicians and well known people. The exhibition was opened by Mr. Igors Dobichins, Chairman of the AUL, and Mr. Lauris Fisers, curator of the exhibition.

On May 25-27, 2013, practitioners in Germany rallied to protest during China Premier Li Keqiang's visit to Berlin. They urged him to stop the persecution of Falun Gong in China; end the organ harvesting of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience, and bring the instigator of the persecution, Jiang Zemin, and his accomplices to justice.

In southern Italy, at a prestigious private primary school, groups of children, led by their classroom teachers, are attentively learning the Falun Gong exercises via video. The atmosphere in the two-storey school, where the sounds of the melodious exercise music fill every classroom, is one of peace and harmony.

International exhibition The Art of Zhen-Shan-Ren (Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance), which has been shown in over 40 countries, is now being shown in French towns. The first of these was Caen from April 19th to 23rd 2013 at the gallery Place des Arts.

On May 13, practitioners from Germany and Switzerland celebrated Falun Dafa Day by Lake Titisee, a beautiful resort located in southern Germany. They introduced Falun Dafa and exposed the persecution of Falun Dafa to tourists and local passersby.