Italy: Falun Gong at a Health Exhibition in Biella

By an Italian Dafa practitioner

During the dates of November 23 and 25, a health exhibition was held in the city of Biella, Northern Italy. Practitioners from Biella, Milan, Turin and Rome participated in the exhibition to let more people know about Falun Gong and its’ benefits.

The Falun Gong booth attracted many people each day. When practitioners demonstrated the exercises, the energy field attracted many people. Even participants from other booths came and discussed Falun Gong or watched the exercise demonstration. Some came whenever they had some spare time, and many wanted to learn Falun Gong.

One Italian businessman commented; “Falun Gong cultivates truthfulness, benevolence and forbearance, and gives people a healthy body. How good it is! The person who persecutes Falun Gong must be a lunatic.” When people learned about the cruel and degrading torture methods used on Dafa practitioners, those kindhearted Italians were very concerned.

There were many moving stories from those days; a businessman came to the Falun Dafa booth to watch the exercise demonstration everyday and also watched the exercise video. He told practitioners; “It’s really amazing that Falun Gong practitioners can face this persecution peacefully and rationally after suffering so much...I believe that people all over the world will be concerned about Falun Gong in the future and more people will learn Falun Gong.”

During the evening of the exhibition, practitioners were given the opportunity to introduce Falun Gong by means a special one-hour introductory class. Two practitioners from Sweden and America, who are also doctors, introduced the principles of Falun Gong and the persecution by Jiang’s regime which has claimed the lives of more than 500 people in 3 years [government estimates put this number at more than 1,600]. Some Italian practitioners also shared their experiences of practising Falun Gong with the people their; for example, one 72-year-old lady shared the improvements she experienced in regards to her eyesight and increased energy.

These photos show the conference attendees learning Falun Gong exercises during a break
Also, during this time period, the mayor of Biella wrote to practitioners. He expressed his appreciation to the practitioners for sending him materials about Falun Gong. He also commented “As a member of the free and democratic western world, we are against any violation of freedom of thought, speech and actions..I believe that..respecting human rights and freedom will benefit peace and mankind’s future.”

These activities clarified the truth to a wider audience of people and we felt they had an enormous impact.

Translated from Chinese at:
http://yuanming.net/articles/200212/15392.html