Nuremberg, Germany: Raising Awareness of the Chinese Communist Regime’s Persecution
(Minghui.org) Falun Gong practitioners held activities in downtown Nuremberg on July 31 to raise awareness of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution. They demonstrated the Falun Gong exercises, talked with passers-by about the persecution of this peaceful and traditional meditation practice, and collected signatures on a petition condemning the suppression.
People sign a petition condemning the persecution.
The event was held in the pedestrian zone in downtown Nuremberg, which has a lot of businesses and foot traffic. It’s also a frequent stop for open-top tour buses, which slowly passed the practitioners’ stand at a close distance. The large banners with the words “Falun Dafa Is Good” and “Stop Organ Harvesting from Living Falun Gong Practitioners” were clearly visible to the tourists.
Pedestrians had even more opportunities to learn about Falun Gong and the CCP’s persecution than the tourists on sightseeing buses. Many people stopped to watch the exercise demonstration and read the display panels. After learning about the persecution, people signed a petition calling on the CCP to stop harvesting organs from living Falun Gong practitioners. Some also expressed their wish to learn Falun Gong.
Talking with passers-by about Falun Gong and the persecution
People read the display panels.
A young man who was traveling in Nuremberg passed by the stand and was shocked by the CCP’s organ harvesting from Falun Gong practitioners. He tried to understand what was happening. After a practitioner clarified the truth to him, the young man immediately asked, “How can I support you?” and then signed the petition.
A German couple read the display panels for a long time and then walked straight to the stand to sign the petition. When they left, one of them said, “The CCP is the real virus.”
A 16-year-old Chinese-German young man was very interested when he saw the practitioners doing the exercises and wanted to learn more. After he talked with one of the people there about the practice and the persecution, he said, “The CCP is atheistic. It is a very bad regime. So it can do such terrible things.”
After signing the petition, he asked, “I wish to learn Falun Gong. Can I learn it in Nuremberg?”After his questions were answered, he left with some printed information.