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Baha’i in Australia speaks out for sister in Iran
An Iranian Baha’i woman living in Australia has received threats for advocating for the release of her sister Rozita Vasseghi, who has been held in solitary confinement in Iran since she was arrested in March 2010. Rosa Vasseghi has lived in Australia since she received asylum in 1999. She and her family have been outspoken [...]
The Bloomington, Indiana, Baha’i community is steadily building on an individual’s neighborhood initiative.
Retired educators swing into action to help Springdale, Arkansas, youths of Marshall Islands origins get into and thrive in college.
Efforts by Baha’i communities in support of the environment are at an early stage but growing.
Frequently asked questions about the importance of acting immediately to stem the tide of climate change.
Addresses and workshops at the Baha’i Conference on Social and Economic Development and sessions of the preceding seminar for experienced practitioners wove a tapestry of the conference theme on development and growth.
As people of diverse faiths break bread they dissolve stereotypes. That’s the mission of the Amazing Faiths Project, in which many Baha’is are participating.
Experienced practitioners participating in a seminar preceding the Baha’i Conference on Social and Economic Development showed how their endeavors connect to wider Baha’i efforts to build community.
Workshops at the Baha’i Conference on Social and Economic Development reflected language, approaches and processes that will continue to develop as opportunities for social action and wider public discourse arise.
Baha’i rights among questions for President Ahmadinejad
On Wednesday, September 22, The Wall Street Journal published an opinion article by Karim Sadjadpour of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, recommending more than a dozen questions for journalists to ask Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his U.S. visit this month. The question of Baha’i rights was among them: Why does the Islamic Republic [...]
The Baha’i Chair for World Peace has launched a webside devoted to identifying and analyzing foundational principles of global governance.
Rainn Wilson serves on ‘CNN Heroes’ panel
When the “Top 10 CNN Heroes” were announced Sept. 23, Rainn Wilson had the satisfaction of knowing he had a hand in their selection.
Wilson, an actor and Los Angeles Baha’i, was a judge — along with Muhammad Ali, Sir Richard Branson and Patricia Heaton — in the cable TV network’s search for people committed to public service.
Firesides break the ice for Faith at Antarctic station
“Very cool,” Ed Jones says of the Baha’i Faith’s mention in a Wikipedia item on the Chapel of the Snows.
Antarctic cool.
When Unit Convention in St. Augustine, Florida, turne to consultation on building community, adults and youths had fresh experience from which to draw.
Fresh as in that very day.
September 20, 2010 – 5:00pm Thousands around the globe are preparing vigils and observations for the International Day of Peace on September 21, including a special effort called A Million Minutes for Peace, where individuals are asked to make the following pledge: “On September 21, I will pause at noon and, in my own way, pray [...]
Editor’s note: We hope you have seen the video on the two neighborhood children’s classes in Fort Collins, Colorado, that youths attending a spiritual retreat arose to serve. Stories in The American Baha’i over the past couple of years also have spotlighted children’s classes and a junior youth group in Fort Collins. This essay puts those developments in the context of a process of capacity building, accompaniment and ongoing learning.
Once upon a time, there was neighborhood.
Green Acre Baha’i School and the Eliot, Maine, Baha’i community played special roles in making the town’s bicentennial celebration memorable.
Just as it had during Eliot’s centennial in 1910, the permanent Baha’i school hosted a Green Acre Day during the 2010 festivities this August.
Prison sentences for Iran’s Baha’i leaders reportedly reduced to 10 years
Baha’i World News Service– The 20-year prison sentences received by Iran’s seven Baha’i leaders have reportedly been reduced. The Baha’i International Community has learned that the lawyers representing the seven were informed orally yesterday that the 20-year jail terms have now been reduced to 10 years. The seven – Fariba Kamalabadi, Jamaloddin Khanjani, Afif Naeimi, [...]
Essay by Samuel Jordan shows how our choice of products to buy affects the lives of people around the world.
You meet the nicest folks when you ride a motorcycle cross-country for a cause and the Cause.
So says Tamela Rich, who recently returned from a 7,500-mile trek to raise money and awareness for breast cancer research and to have spiritual conversations with those she encountered.
FOX news affiliate includes Iranian Baha’is in refugee coverage
Last week a Pennsylvania FOX News affiliate (FOX 43) aired a story about local refugees that included a description of the ongoing persecution of Baha’is in Iran. The story, by Nava Ghalili, also highlighted the trial of seven Baha’i leaders who were each sentenced to 20 years in prison last month. View the FOX 43 [...]
Manouchehr Hezari earned the illustrious title of Knight of Bahá’u’lláh by following Shoghi Effendi’s call in 1953 to pioneer in countries and territories the Faith had not reached. Settling in Tangier, he helped the Bahá’í community in Morocco develop for 29 years.
He passed away June 21, 2010, in Austin, Texas, where he had lived for 28 years. He was 88.
Radio Free Europe: Baha’is In Iran Await Justice for Demolished Homes, Graves
On Thursday, September 9, Radio Free Europe’s “Watchdog” blog published a follow-up article on the destruction of 50 Baha’i homes in Ivel, Iran, in June. Baha’i Ferdosieh Nikoumanesh, who now lives near Washington, D.C., spent many childhood summers at her grandparents home in Ivel before they left the village in 1983. She shared her memories [...]
A flood of traveling teachers and mobile tutors hit the Triad cluster of north-central North Carolina following the Regional Baha’i Conference in Atlanta two years ago.
“We were almost outnumbered” in the field some days, recalls Frank Kelleher.
Every weekday morning, 10 or so souls will the phone to ring.
They anticipate, says James A. Williams, “the Community of God will soon be calling” so they “can mingle their prayers with those of others.”
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