UK: Promoting Falun Dafa in Swansea, Wales after Christmas (Photos)

By a UK Dafa Disciple

(Clearwisdom.net) Christmas is the most important holiday in the UK. After the two-day break, shops re-opened and offered the greatest discounts of the year on 27 December. It is the time that people go shopping, including those who rarely get into town. Welsh and English Falun Dafa practitioners seized this precious opportunity to hold an exercise demonstration right in the center of the Welsh city of Swansea. Hundreds of people witnessed the beauty of the 5 sets of Falun Gong exercises, and many of them received truth-clarification materials from the practitioners.

The weather was a little wet but it did not affect the event much. The practitioners involved set up an information stand displaying posters introducing the exercises of Falun Dafa and exposing the persecution against Falun Dafa practitioners in China. During the event, the practitioners demonstrated the exercises, handed out leaflets and collected signatures from passersby for appealing for an immediate release of UK residents' family members incarcerated in China. They are being held in custody merely because they would not give up their beliefs in Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance.

Demonstrating Falun Gong exercises	Passersby watching practitioner doing exercises

Many people stopped at the Falun Dafa stand while busily shopping in the street. They read about the persecution carefully and were deeply shocked by the wide extent of human rights offences in China. Quite a lot people came to the desk, asking to sign the petition forms prepared by the practitioners. Sometimes a whole family came in and signed the petition forms in turn. The forms ran out at an unexpected speed and the practitioners had to make do with some sheets of an older version of the form in the latter part of the day. The local people have demonstrated their sense of righteousness and their support to basic human rights through these actions. In doing this, they have also set up a solid foundation for their beautiful future.

Family signing petition

There were also some Chinese people passing by during the day. It could be seen clearly that their attitudes towards Dafa have been changing, and more and more overseas Chinese people have learned of the truth of the persecution. For instance, two young Chinese people came to the stand and read about the information displayed carefully. When handed truth clarification materials by a practitioner, they said that they have noticed that reports on Falun Dafa were so different in the UK compared to what they have seen in China. And recently they have gotten to know the truth of the persecution from an overseas Chinese newspaper, the Epoch Times. Their remarks have proved again that the propaganda produced by the state machinery of China has failed, and it would not be able to deceive Chinese people for long.

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