Sweden: Falun Gong Receives Warm Welcome at a Community Event in Stockholm (Photo)
By a Swedish Falun Gong practitioner
(Clearwisdom.net) On August 26, 2006, Faun Gong practitioners were
invited to attend a community gathering organized by "San You" [Three
Friends] Right of Abode Association in Hallunda, a town in the suburbs of
Stockholm. Through demonstration of the Falun Gong exercises, informational
display boards and making folded paper lotus flowers, practitioners introduced
Falun Gong to the event participants and exposed the ongoing persecution in
China as well as the Chinese Communist regime's atrocity of organ harvesting
from living Falun Gong practitioners. Many people learn to make folded paper lotus The graceful exercise music and the elegant movements of the exercise
demonstration deeply moved the local residents. People came to watch the
exercise demonstration, buy Dafa books and inquire after information about local
exercise practice sites. Some of them learned the five sets of exercises right
on the spot. One woman told a practitioner with a smile on her face, "I've
been aware of the Falun Gong exercises for a long time. I keep a videotape at
home. I will find it and start practicing the exercises." After watching the exercise demonstration and looking at the photo display,
many of the participants indicated that they could not understand at all why the
Chinese Communist regime decided to persecute Falun Gong. They were terrified
and outraged by the fact that organs are being harvested from living Falun Gong
practitioners in China. "It is hard to believe that such things still occur
nowadays. It is truly horrible," a lot to them commented. People signed
their names to denounce the atrocity and support practitioners' anti-persecution
efforts. Many people also learned how to fold paper lotus flowers while listening to
the persecution facts. As exquisite lotus flowers imprinted with, "The
World Needs Truthfulness, Compassion and Tolerance," were made one after
another, people exclaimed in admiration, "How beautiful this is!" The
faces of those who made folded paper lotus flowers glowed with happiness. A gentleman who maintains the website for the community photographed all of
the Falun Gong practitioners' activities. He told the practitioners that he
would post the photos on the community website so that more people could know
about and pay attention to Falun Gong and the persecution. After signing his
name on the petition to support Falun Gong, he also had a group picture taken
with practitioners. Upon the completion of the community gathering, the event organizer
approached the practitioners to say how grateful he was that the practitioners
introduced the wonderful practice of Falun Gong to the community. He said he
looked forward to additional events in the future.
Chinese version available at
http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2006/8/28/136589.html
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