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“Music as a ladder for your souls…”
Justin Johnson, in his blog, Pearls of Inner Significance, shares some of his very favorite uplifting/beautiful/contemplative pieces of music or chants and wants to know what your favorites are.
On Whether to Invite the Neighbors: The Baha’i campus club does it for me
Baha’i Views shares with us the inclusiveness of Baha’i college clubs.
Reflecting on Compassion
One Heart reflects on what it means to be compassionate. The thoughts are taken from Charter for Compassion, a worldwide membership of many Faiths, cultures and countries.
The essence of faith . . .
Subscribe to Baha’i Words and receive the Prayers and Words of the Bahá’í Faith via email, each day. Today’s post is a lovely quote from Baha’u’llah on the essence of faith.
From Jerusalem to the Mediterranean
A beautiful story of the peace and serenity one will find at the holy lands in Haifa, Israel.
Love
Blue Shutters shares with us the inspiring story of how ‘Abdu’l-Baha guided Juliet Thompson in endeavouring to give her heart to God.
Even as a child, Roya Movafegh knew her story had to be told—a family’s perilous journey through the Pakistani desert, fleeing religious persecution in Iran. As Bahá’ís, there was no question what their fate would be if they were discovered and returned to Iran, where more than 200 Bahá’ís were killed in the aftermath of [...]
October 21, 2010 – 6:19pm Today, on what would have been the jazz great’s 93rd birthday, Dizzy Gillespie is remembered in a profile on The Washington Post: “In case you haven’t used Google today (Oct. 21), you may not have noticed an unusual design on the home page: a razzmatazz boogie of semi-abstract art with a [...]
UN Secretary General voices concern over human rights abuses in Iran
Baha’i World News Service– The Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, has once again expressed strong concern over Iran’s ongoing human rights violations, including its persecution of Iranian Baha’is. In a report issued Thursday, Mr. Ban highlighted his continuing concerns over Iran’s use of torture and the death penalty, its poor treatment of [...]
The Bab (1819-1850) was the Prophet-Herald of the Baha’i Faith, whose mission was to proclaim the imminent arrival of "Him Whom God shall make manifest," namely Baha’u'llah (1817-1892), the Founder of the Baha’i Faith. (The title Bab means "the Gate" in Arabic.)
October 12, 2010 – 4:55pm Building on the successful 2009 Semester on Peace at the University of Maryland, the Baha’i Chair for World Peace has launched the Pathways to Peace initiative. The program will guide those seeking ways to engage in peace making on campus. Dan Mote (in jacket), president of the University of Maryland, converses with John [...]
October 12, 2010 – 4:29pm The story of a teenage girl on the Standing Rock reservation is all the inspiration Farnaz Fanaian needed to launch a Baha’i-inspired program of social action aimed at empowering young people. “She told me her mother drank until she slept,” says Fanaian. “She told me her father took his own [...]
The Guardian: Legal questions over Iran Baha’i trial
On Saturday, October 9, the British newspaper The Guardian published a letter decrying the lack of due process leading up to the sentencing of seven Iranian Baha’i leaders in August. Rosalyn Higgins QC Former international judge; Linda Lee President, Law Society; Mark Muller QC Chairman, Bar human rights committee co-authored the letter, which called for [...]