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[Minghui.org] Liberdade, Brazil: Practitioners Hold Awareness-Raising Activities to Mark the April 25 Appeal Anniversary

May 1, 2023 | By a Falun Gong practitioner in Liberdade, Brazil

“The CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong is going to the opposite [of] democracy and justice. It is getting further and further away from a peaceful coexistence. The Chinese people want to move forward, but they are held back by the CCP. I feel very sad about this persecution.”

(Minghui.org) Falun Gong practitioners in the São Paulo region of Brazil held an event in Liberdade on April 25, 2023, to commemorate the 24th anniversary of the April 25 peaceful appeal in China.

Practitioners introduced Falun Gong and protested the ongoing Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution, and the CCP’s forced organ harvesting from living Falun Gong practitioners for profit. They called on people from all walks of life to work together to end this persecution.

Falun Gong practitioners in the São Paulo region hold an awareness-raising event on April 25, 2023.

The Liberdade District of São Paulo, also known as the Oriental District, is located in the central area of São Paulo and has a distinctive oriental cultural atmosphere. Most of this area is where people from Asia live. On the day of the event, Falun Gong practitioners demonstrated the five Falun Gong – also call Falun Dafa – exercises. The peaceful exercise music and the practitioners’ graceful movements caught the attention of many passers-by. They stopped and watched the ongoing activities.

Marcos, who lives locally, said that he learned about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong through Brazil’s New Tang Dynasty Television. He said, “The CCP’s persecution of Falun Gong is going to the opposite [of] democracy and justice. It is getting further and further away from a peaceful coexistence. The Chinese people want to move forward, but they are held back by the CCP. I feel very sad about this persecution.”

An 89-year-old man learns the exercises.

The Falun Dafa display boards drew the attention of an older Chinese gentleman passing by. The practitioners introduced Falun Gong to him and spoke about the CCP’s brutal persecution. The man, who is 89, expressed his willingness to learn the exercises. Before leaving, he took the Falun Gong informational materials, and said he would go home and read them carefully.

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Source: https://en.minghui.org/html/articles/2023/5/1/208311.html

Editor’s Note: Dear readers, do you know that Falun Dafa, originally from China, is currently practiced by people in over 100 countries? But in China, since Jul. 20, 1999, Falun Gong is defamed, slandered and persecuted due to the Chinese Communist Party’s fear of Falun Gong’s rapidly growing popularity. 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.

To learn more about the persecution Falun Gong practitioners are subjected to in China, visit http://faluninfo.net/.

For more information about the practice or to download Zhuan Falun, visit: www.falundafa.org. All books, exercise music, resources, and instructions are available completely free of charge.