Events
The festival was scheduled to begin at 2pm and last into the night. Amidst the sounds of heavy African beats the Falun Dafa stall sat still as the only store to receive a beam of sunlight, shining through the buildings of the urban surrounds.
More than 1,000 Falun Gong practitioners from more than 40 countries from
around the world gathered in Geneva on March 17-18 to hold peaceful appeals
during the 59th session of the U.N. Human Rights Commission.
A Western Falun Gong practitioner who works for a duty free shop in Surfers Paradise saw a notice about a traditional Chinese New Year parade on his way to work. He realized that this would be a good opportunity to display the beauty of Falun Dafa to the public.
From February 7 to 9 2003, the annual traditional Vietnamese New Year Celebration was held at the Warwick Farm Horse Racing Field west of Sydney. The event was organized by Vietnamese Community of New South Wales province and it has nearly 100,000 people came to the event.
In pre-war Nazi Germany, the attempted extermination of Jews and others Hitler considered to be “undesirable” was already underway. Millions of people lost their jobs, their homes, their possessions and their families as they were sent to concentration camps.
On January 26, Australia National Day, local Falun Gong practitioners participated in a grand celebration parade in Brisbane, the capital of Queensland.
Wollongong’s Falun Dafa group was invited to celebrate Australia Day on January 26th with other community groups for the third consecutive year by the Australia Day committee.
At 4:00am, on Saturday January 18th, practitioners of Falun Dafa from Sydney departed for Orange to offer the first introduction class in Orange in 2003. The regional newspaper, Central Western Daily had publicized the event in the Saturday edition.
From Monday (January 13) to Wednesday (January 15), Canberra Falun Gong practitioners held a three-day candlelight vigil in front of the Chinese Embassy in Canberra to mourn for more than 40 practitioners who were recently killed in China due to the persecution
Melbourne Falun Gong practitioners entered Day 3 of their peaceful appeal in front of the Chinese Consulate.
