(Clearwisdom.net) The Altona Culture Festival in Germany is an annual community festival event in Altona, Hamburg. On June 18 and 19, 2011, Falun Gong (also known as Falun Dafa) practitioners participated in the festival, introducing Falun Dafa’s teachings of Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance, demonstrating the five-set meditative exercises, and calling attention to the Chinese Communist regime's brutal persecution of Falun Dafa since July 1999.

Falun Gong practitioners participate in Altona Culture Festival, Germany

Seven-year-old Nico demonstrates the Falun Dafa sitting meditation

Petra demonstrates the second set of the Falun Dafa exercises

Six-year-old Lisa and seven-year-old Nico demonstrated the sitting meditation of Falun Dafa. The two young girls looked very serene and focused despite the bustling atmosphere of the festival.

Practitioners set up a photo display in the tent, explaining to people how Falun Gong practitioners are being persecuted in China, while showing how the peaceful practice continues to grow in popularity around the world and has become well-known for its remarkable effects on health and healing.

At the booth, practitioners also taught visitors how to fold paper lotus flowers."The noble quality of lotus flower is that it emerges unstained from the muddy swamp. In the same way, Falun Gong practitioners in Mainland China are suffering from brutal persecution, but are still adhering to the principles Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance,” explained a Falun Gong practitioner at the booth.