Pilar is an educator who traveled from a northern city to attend the fair. She said that she saw Falun Dafa practitioners collecting signatures at the Puerta del Sol in Madrid more than 20 years ago. At that time, she was shocked by the tragedy of Falun Dafa being persecuted by the CCP so she signed the petition without any hesitation. She wanted to learn to practice, but there was no practice site in her city. She finally met practitioners again so she was very happy. She bought Zhuan Falun and said that she wants to teach the children in her school to practice the Falun Dafa exercises after she learns them herself. She said that more people should know about such a good practice.

José, another visitor, said, “People do not have a correct spiritual principle to guide them in their daily busy and hectic lives and their complicated interpersonal conflicts. Falun Dafa and its principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance are what modern society needs.”

Ms. Carmen Fraile was attracted by the slow and serene exercise movements. She said, “I read and was looking for matters that are related to a new spiritual level, and practices that can prolong one’s life. When a person does these gradual and slow movements, his life and everything will be slowed down. I am very interested in the Falun Dafa exercises so I will definitely learn it.”

There were many touching stories during the fair. After conversing with practitioners, a woman brought her mother, husband and daughter to the booth the next day to learn the exercises. She said that Falun Dafa is very unusual and she felt that she was very lucky to be able to find it and meet practitioners. As such, she brought her whole family to the Falun Dafa booth.

On the last day of the health fair, a member of the Spanish royal family came to the Falun Dafa booth and accepted flyers and a small lotus flower keepsake with the words Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance written on it. He kept saying, “Thank you! Thank you!”

Many visitors said they’d heard about the CCP’s persecution of Falun Dafa in China, and they expressed their anger and condemned the CCP’s violent behavior. Some visitors asked what they could do to end the persecution. Practitioners told them that they could sign a petition right there, or they could also go online to sign the petition to end the persecution.

Two elderly ladies who came together learned how the CCP persecutes Falun Dafa. One said, “Everyone who has a conscience should stand up to end the persecution. I hope that this tragedy will soon end.”

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 organisation 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, though due to the difficulty in getting information out of China, 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.