Barcelona, Spain: Telling People about Falun Dafa and Raising Awareness of the Persecution

(Minghui.org) Barcelona is a popular tourist destination in the fall. Practitioners frequently hold events in the center of this busy city to introduce Falun Dafa. They tell people about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) persecution and collect signatures on a petition to end the persecution.

People learn about Falun Dafa and sign a petition calling for an end to the persecution during events in Barcelona on November 12.

Practitioners set up a stand on one of the city’s busiest streets on Saturday, November 12, 2022. A huge banner that read “The European Parliament Passed a Resolution Condemning the CCP’s Live Organ Harvesting” in both Chinese and Spanish was particularly eye-catching. Many passersby stopped to learn about Falun Dafa and sign the petition calling for an end to the persecution.

A couple and their two sons stopped to read the information. The husband and one son signed the petition. His wife and their other son continued to read the display panels as a practitioner explained further. They also signed the petition. The family thanked practitioners for the information and said that they’d heard about similar cruelty in the former Soviet Union. They thought these human rights abuses were the Communist Party’s fault.

A Chinese couple from the Netherlands stopped in front of the display board. The young woman asked many questions about Falun Dafa itself and why the Communist Party is persecuting it. They listened to a practitioner’s explanation and nodded frequently to express their agreement.

The young man said that he was a Christian and hated the CCP. He said, “The Party does not recognize that there is a God—the Party regards itself as a god.” He said that he used to be a CCP member, but he had already declared his withdrawal from the CCP and its affiliated organizations on The Epoch Times website. He also said that after returning to the Netherlands, he would help his friend quit the Young Pioneers. They thanked the practitioners and took a flyer.

Background: What Is Falun Dafa and Why Is the CCP Persecuting It?

Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong) was first introduced to the public by Mr. Li Hongzhi in Changchun, China, in 1992. The spiritual discipline is now practiced in over 100 countries and regions worldwide. Millions of people who have embraced the teachings, which are based on the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, and have learned the five exercises have experienced improved health and well-being.

Jiang Zemin, former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), perceived the spiritual discipline’s growing popularity as a threat to the CCP’s atheistic ideology and on July 20, 1999, he issued an order to eradicate the practice.

Under Jiang’s personal direction, the CCP established the 610 Office, an extralegal security organization with the power to override the police and judicial systems and whose sole function is to carry out the persecution of Falun Dafa.

Minghui.org has confirmed the deaths of thousands of practitioners as a result of the persecution over the past 23 years. The actual number is believed to be much higher. Countless practitioners have been imprisoned and tortured for their faith.

There is concrete evidence that the CCP sanctions the harvesting of organs from detained practitioners, who are murdered to supply China’s organ transplant industry.