(Minghui.org) Practitioners in the Rhine-Neckar region of Germany held an event on the main shopping street in Mannheim on June 22, 2024. They introduced Falun Dafa and raised awareness of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution. They also collected signatures on a petition to end the brutality.

Practitioners demonstrated the exercises and set up a booth to introduce Falun Dafa and expose the CCP’s persecution on June 22, 2024.

Passers-by learn about Falun Dafa.

People sign petition seeking an end to the persecution.

Although it occasionally rained, a constant stream of people continued shopping. Many people watched the practitioners’ activities, read fliers, and talked with them, and some people learned the exercises. People who learned about the CCP’s persecution signed the petition calling for an end the persecution. Some passers-by called on Western countries to take a clear stand on the issue of the CCP’s persecution.

Maryna Zoria (right) and her mother sign the petition.

“I want world peace. I am Ukrainian and I support you,” said Maryna Zoria after signing the petition with her parents.

Maryna said that she married a Turkish man from Ukraine ten years ago and came to Germany to visit her parents. Her parents moved to Germany four months ago because of the Ukrainian-Russian war. She said, “I just heard a Ukrainian-speaking practitioner say that a group of practitioners who wanted to gain physical health and improve their spiritual realm were subjected to the CCP’s organ harvesting. This is too cruel.”

The practitioner told her that Falun Dafa teaches one to live by Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance. Maryna agreed, “I think everyone should be kind, merciful, and patient to others. We should live in harmony with each other instead of hurting each other.”

The Signature Collection Is Meaningful

Two high school students from Mannheim read the flyers and signed the petition. One of the boys said, “It’s important for me to learn about this today. I heard about the persecution of Uyghurs in Xinjiang before. I think it’s important to take a stand here, in the Western world.”

A young man signed the petition after listening carefully to a practitioner’s explanation. Afterward he said, “This [petition] is very meaningful. I think that meaningful things should be participated in.”

Speaking of the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, he said, “The principles are positive and teach people to be good. Meditation is also good. I also practice meditation on a daily basis. It relaxes me and empties my mind.”

Melanie supports the practitioners’ efforts to stop the persecution.

Melanie is a teacher at a private bilingual elementary school in Heidelberg, where she teaches math, German, and English. She said, “It’s unbelievable that people’s organs are forcibly removed and sold. I never thought that such a thing could happen.”

Melanie said she’s a yoga enthusiast and is interested in Asian culture, but she didn’t know much about Falun Dafa. The practitioner recommended she read Zhuan Falun, the main text of the practice. Melanie asked for some informational materials and said she would learn more about it.