(Minghui.org) Falun Dafa practitioners from Massachusetts participated in the annual harvest festival held in Temple Town Common in Temple, New Hampshire, on September 21, 2025. The festival featured live music by local musicians and the Temple Town Band, local crafters’ and town committee booths, hay rides, live animal exhibits, and apple cider pressing demonstrations.

Practitioners at the Falun Dafa booth talked to visitors about the benefits of the practice as well as about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) ongoing persecution. They handed out flyers and collected signatures on a petition calling on the U.S. Senate to pass the Falun Gong Protection Act. Many visitors learned more about Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong) and thanked practitioners for the meaningful information.

Practitioners’ booth at the Temple Harvest Festival

Jane, the host of a neighboring booth, found out about Falun Dafa and the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance from practitioners who also told her how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) started a nationwide persecution of Falun Dafa in 1999 and that practitioners in China were even subjected to forced organ harvesting. After learning that the persecution continues today and has been extended to other countries, she signed the petition to support the Falun Gong Protection Act.

When she saw Zhuan Falun, the main text of Falun Dafa, on the table, she opened it and said, “I am very interested in spiritual matters and would like to buy this book.” She bought the book and also took truth-clarification materials, saying she would give them to her younger brother. A little while later, practitioners noticed that Jane was reading Zhuan Falun at her booth.

A man who came to the booth to find out more about Falun Dafa learned that the CCP is using the judicial system and media outlets in the West to target and attack Falun Dafa and Shen Yun. Many other countries are also unsettled due to the CCP’s infiltration. The man signed the petition and said, “Thank you for being here and making me aware that things like this are happening.”

A woman who stopped by the booth heard about Falun Dafa’s universal principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance and that the CCP is spreading lies about the practice, defaming and persecuting Falun Dafa practitioners both inside and outside of China. The woman signed the petition and said that, although she had heard about it before, she had never really understood the true situation before. She said, “It is not easy for you to come out and inform people about this.” She gave practitioners a thumbs up.

A man came to the booth with his son just as practitioners were about to pack up and asked about the CCP’s forced live organ harvesting. A practitioner confirmed that forced live organ harvesting still occurs in China and that Falun Dafa practitioners are often the target. He was appalled. The practitioner said, “Among us here, three were arrested and imprisoned while they were in China. They were tortured, and one was even injected with unknown drugs. The persecution has been going on for 26 years.”

The man signed to support the Falun Gong Protection Act and took some information. He thanked practitioners for the information said he hoped practitioners could let more Americans know about the persecution.