Russia: Saint Petersburg People Show their Support for Falun Gong

On January 29th 2004, Falun Gong practitioners from Saint Petersburg went to Nevsky Metro Station to promote Falun Gong and raise awareness about the gross human rights violations happening to their fellow practitioners in China. Many people received leaflets from the practitioners and looked at the display boards carefully. After learning the truth about Falun Gong and that it is being wrongly persecuted, they took the initiative to sign a petition calling for an immediate end to the persecution.

A gentleman came to our booth whom we met before when we held a similar activity at a Buddhist temple. This gentleman was the Abbot of the temple and told us about his extraordinary experiences. Several years ago he suffered from a serious joint illness and found that medical treatment did not help. He went to live alone in a forest where he discovered a treatment on his own and learned how to grow crops. Through strong willpower and perseverance, he recovered from his illness and returned to Saint Petersburg three years later. Recently, his illness recurred. Today he came to the place where we held these activities and seriously told us, “All of this is not accidental. It is destiny that let me know about Falun Gong and brought me here. I really need to think it over seriously!"