Bulgaria: Celebrating World Falun Dafa Day in Sofia, Varna, Plovdiv, and Burgas

(Minghui.org) Falun Dafa practitioners from the Bulgarian cities of Sofia, Plovdiv, Burgas, Varna, and Stara Zagora celebrated Falun Dafa’s 30^th anniversary and the 23^rd World Falun Dafa Day. Mr. Li Hongzhi, the founder of Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong), introduced this unique system for self-cultivation for the first time in 1992.

For their World Falun Dafa Day celebrations, Bulgarian practitioners demonstrated and taught the five exercises, informed people about the persecution of Falun Dafa by the Chinese Communist Party that has gone on for 23 years, and taught the children how to make origami lotus flowers.

In the capital city of Sofia on May 14, Falun Dafa practitioners in South Park demonstrated the exercises and taught people who were interested in the park. For the little ones, a workshop on making paper lotus flowers was organized, and children of different ages learned about the symbolism of the lotus flower. The lotus flower is a symbol of a person’s inner purity—its roots are in the mud, but the petals always appear on the surface of the water, bright and pure.

At the World Falun Dafa Day celebration in Sofia, a practitioner in a traditional Chinese outfit demonstrates the five exercises.

In South Park in Sofia visitors call for an end to the China regime’s persecution of Falun Dafa after hearing the facts.

People learn the exercises at the World Falun Dafa Day celebrations in Sofia.

An origami lotus workshop delights the little ones during the World Falun Dafa Day celebration in Sofia.

Celebrating Falun Dafa in Varna Near the Black Sea

In Varna, World Falun Dafa Day was celebrated with a demonstration of the exercises, an informational banner about the practice, and a petition people could sign to condemn the persecution of Falun Dafa in China.

The City of Plovdiv Celebrates World Falun Dafa Day

In the city of Plovdiv, practitioners celebrated Falun Dafa Day with festive balloons. They also demonstrated the exercises and urged people to sign a petition to protest the ongoing 23-year persecution of people in China who practice Falun Dafa and follow the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance.

World Falun Dafa Day in the City of Plovdiv—the 2019 European Capital of Culture

Burgas Celebrates World Falun Dafa Day

On May 14, Falun Dafa practitioners from Bulgaria and Russia celebrated World Falun Dafa Day on the main boulevard of Burgas “Bogoridi.” They demonstrated the fifth exercise, distributed informational leaflets, and organized a petition to condemn the persecution of Falun Dafa practitioners in China by the Chinese Communist Party.

People learn about Falun Dafa and have an opportunity to sign the petition to protest the persecution of the practice in China, as several practitioners do the meditation.

Doing the fourth exercise, practitioners encourage the little spectators to try bending over and drawing a circle around their feet to help them learn the exercise.

Residents and visitors to Burgas sign a petition to protest forced organ harvesting from innocent practitioners in China.

Passersby are handed paper lotus flowers. Some of them sign the petition to condemn the persecution of Falun Dafa in China.

Celebrating World Falun Dafa Day in Burgas—demonstrating the meditation