(Minghui.org) A young woman from China excitedly said, “I can’t stop weeping! I’m so excited to learn the truth, I’m shaking!” She had noticed practitioners doing the Falun Dafa exercises during an event in Ireland’s capital, Dublin, on December 27, 2025. After she read a flier about Falun Dafa, the woman was astounded that doing such a simple thing—the exercises, is forbidden by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). She expressed her opinion about the CCP’s persecution of Falun Dafa in China as she placed additional fliers in her bag, and repeatedly thanked practitioners.
Practitioners held activities in Dublin on December 27, 2025, to introduce Falun Dafa and tell people about the ongoing persecution in China.
On this last Saturday of 2025, practitioners held activities in downtown Dublin to introduce the Falun Dafa spiritual practice to local residents, as well as tourists from around the world. They also exposed the CCP’s brutal persecution of Falun Dafa, which includes taking organs from detained practitioners for use in transplants, while they are still alive.
Dublin’s city center is a popular tourist destination. Besides a wide array of shops, there are also many historical buildings, including Trinity College and the National Gallery of Ireland. From the start of summer, the streets and alleys of downtown Dublin are filled with tourists. Dafa practitioners hold truth-clarification activities in the area every Saturday afternoon. During peak tourist season, there are also small Falun Dafa sites next to other tourist hot spots, so that more people—especially tourists from China, can read information about the practice. Because information is censored in China, it is very difficult for people in Mainland China to learn the truth about Falun Dafa and the persecution. Many Chinese tourists who learn of the brutality of the persecution, and see through the CCP’s lies, choose to withdraw their membership in the Party and its affiliated youth organizations.
Practitioners set up information booths in Dublin’s city center to raise awareness about the persecution in China.
I Can Finally Speak the Truth
Soon after the activities began on December 27, the young woman mentioned at the beginning of this article approached the practitioners’ booth. She said she’d only recently come to Ireland, and did not expect to see Falun Dafa practitioners abroad.
“I am extremely moved to see this [activity to introduce Falun Dafa]” she said as she wept. She said in China no one can speak the truth. Whenever she writes anything official, she has to first repeat the regime’s lies. She said she left China because she could no longer tolerate such an oppressive environment.
As the young woman talked about China, she repeatedly said, “It’s especially painful. I felt I was living amid lies and I was in such pain.”
When practitioners asked her how she learned that the CCP is spreading lies, the woman said that when she was in China, she found an online overseas social media platform and read how the regime persecutes Falun Dafa including removing their organs while they are alive. She said she recalled seeing practitioners doing the exercises in parks in her hometown before the persecution began in 1999—just as they were doing in Dublin right then. After the persecution started, she also saw notes with messages such as, “Quit the CCP and You Will Be Blessed” and, “Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance.” She said she was a little scared when she saw the messages, because she was in the environment ruled by the CCP. However, she said that she felt a seed of hope “sprouting” in her.
The young woman chatted with practitioners for over an hour that day. She said she was sad about the cultural relics destroyed during the CCP’s political campaigns, but she felt helpless. She said it wasn’t easy to be a kind person in China. Practitioners explained that the regime’s persecution of Falun Dafa led to the steep decline of society’s moral values, and the victims of the persecution are not just those who practice Falun Dafa, but include all Chinese citizens. A practitioner said, “The CCP does not allow people to follow Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance: isn’t this encouraging them to be bad people?” The woman nodded in agreement, and said that Falun Dafa’s principles—Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance—are good. In contrast, she noted that the CCP incites people to fight and scheme against each other.
As the conversation continued, the young woman eventually stopped crying. A practitioner told her that if she wished to learn more about Falun Dafa, she should read the main book Zhuan Falun. They also invited her to visit the Falun Dafa website listed on the flier, where anyone can download all the books for free. The young woman said that she would be happy to check out the website, and also agreed to quit the CCP. Before leaving, she repeatedly thanked practitioners.
I Want to Quit the CCP!
One Saturday, a group of tourists from China passed by a Falun Dafa information site. A practitioner greeted a middle-aged woman who was walking at the back the group and asked, “Would you like to read this?” and offered her a Chinese Minghui publication.
Before the woman could reply, a hand reached out and grabbed the magazine. The practitioner noticed a man behind her, and explained to him and the woman the significance of quitting the CCP. The man immediately said, “The CCP killed 10 million people through wars, 10 million dead during the great famine. It killed another 10 million through its political campaigns! It has not done a single good deed!” The practitioner said, “Then, please withdraw from the Party.” The man said, “Yes! I quit!”
He walked up to other tourists in the group and said loudly, “They asked me to withdraw from the Party. I agreed!”
Chinese citizens learn the facts about the persecution at Falun Dafa information booths in downtown Dublin.
“I Know Falun Dafa Is Good”
On another Saturday afternoon, three Chinese tourists stood near the roadside after visiting various historic sites in Dublin. A practitioner struck up a conservation with them, and one man said they were from Xi’an. A practitioner asked if he’d already quit the CCP and explained why it is important to do so. The man replied, “I know Falun Dafa is good. I also know the difference between being loyal to the CCP and being loyal to China. For example, my last name is Qin. We are descendants of the Emperor Qin, so the Communist Party has nothing to do with me.”
He agreed to quit his membership in the Party using an alias. The two men next to him also renounced their membership after understanding how bad the current regime is.
“You Are Truly Remarkable”
One recent Saturday afternoon, Mr. Li, a Chinese man pushing a baby pram, noticed practitioners handing out fliers. He smiled and told them he’d already read the information. He remarked that the materials reveal the true history of the CCP over the span of the past century, “During these past 100 years, the CCP has been doing bad things. It’s a cult.”
He said he left China many years ago and now lives in Dublin. Although he had already withdrawn from the CCP, he’d read the Party’s propaganda about Falun Dafa and asked practitioners, “Are you paid to do this?”
The practitioner told him that all practitioners engage in these activities voluntarily, in their spare time, and they use their own money to print flyers and other materials. She explained that practitioners have benefited so much because they live by Falun Dafa’s principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance, and they hope that others won’t be deceived by the CCP’s lies. She said that it is for these reasons that they voluntarily hand out information, talk to people about Falun Dafa, and let them know about the persecution in China.
Mr. Li said, “Then, you are truly remarkable!”
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