Author: Staff Writer

Source: Baha'i World News Service

http://www.news.bahai.org/story/583

The Tonga tribe has lived in southern Zambia for hundreds of years, and members are proud of their longstanding traditions and strong social codes. But leaders say some of the customs are eroding - young people, for example, no longer seem to respect the elderly.

A new program involving hundreds of young teens working in small groups may help change that...

Author: JEFFREY WEISS

Source: The Dallas Morning News

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/collin/plano/stories/DN-relbahais_20met.ART.South.Edition1.428e293.html

The Dallas Baha'i Center celebrates moving into a new home today. Last weekend, the Plano Baha'i Center celebrated the dedication of a new worship hall.

In recent years, several...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Baha'i World News Service

http://news.bahai.org/story/581

Sarah Vader has joined the Baha'i International Community as a representative to the United Nations.

In addition to working at U.N. offices in Geneva, Ms. Vader will establish an office in Brussels aimed at strengthening the BIC's ties with the European Union. In that role, Ms. Vader will work closely with national-level Baha'i affiliates in the 27 countries...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Baha'i World News Service

http://news.bahai.org/story/580

A Baha'i from Tanzania - where different religious communities live peacefully together - testified yesterday before the United Nations General Assembly on how to promote religious understanding.

Addressing an informal hearing on "Interreligious and Intercultural Understanding and Cooperation for Peace," Mitra Deliri said that in her country, "large Christian...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Baha'i World News Service

http://www.bahaiworldnews.org/story/578

The bulldozing of a Baha'i cemetery in Iran last week is the latest in a series of incidents in a government-led campaign of hatred against Baha'is.

The destruction of the cemetery by individuals using heavy equipment occurred between 9 September and 10 September near Najafabad, on the outskirts of Isfahan. What happened there is nearly identical...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Baha'i World News Service

http://www.bahaiworldnews.org/story/577

In the wake of new evidence that Iran has lied about its intention to allow Baha'i students into universities, the Universal House of Justice has sent a letter to Iranian Baha'i youth encouraging them to respond with composure, perseverance, and a redoubled commitment to work towards the common good in Iran.

"With an illumined conscience, with a...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Baha'i World News Service

http://www.bahaiworldnews.org/story/575

The Baha'i International Community has received a copy of a confidential 2006 letter from Iran's Ministry of Science, Research and Technology instructing Iranian universities to expel any student who is discovered to be a Baha'i.

The letter refutes recent statements by Iranian officials, who say Baha'i students in Iran face no discrimination -...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Baha'i World News Service

http://www.bahaiworldnews.org/story/573

Two professional filmmakers have finished an hourlong documentary about three Baha'is and how they practice their faith, and the film is being aired on television in South Africa and neighboring countries.

"Baha'i Faith: A Way Forward" was produced by Ryan and Leyla Haidarian at the request of the South African Broadcasting Corporation, which has...

Source: Baha'i World News Service

http://www.bahaiworldnews.org/story/572

Be cool. Be religious. Yes, you can watch MTV and still have morals.

Some music professionals in Los Angeles - all of them Baha'is and all knee-deep or more in the entertainment industry - have come out with what one recording artist terms a "straight-up Baha'i album."

The group calls itself the Dawnbreaker Collective, the album is named "Arise," and the music is, well, cool.

Author: Omid T

Source: Mideast Youth

http://www.mideastyouth.com/2007/08/01/iran-harrassing-bahai-kids-on-a-massive-scale/

Baha’i students in primary and secondary schools throughout Iran are increasingly being harassed, vilified, and held up to abuse, according to recent reports from inside the country.

During a 30-day period...some 150 incidents of insults, mistreatment, and even physical...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Baha'i World News Service

http://www.bahaiworldnews.org/story/570

Iranian Baha'is seeking to enter Iran's technical and vocational institutes have been effectively barred from admission for the coming academic year, since the application to sit for the entrance examinations leaves them with no option but to deny their faith, which Baha'is refuse to be coerced into doing.

The Baha'i International Community...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Cayman NetNews

http://www.caymannetnews.com/news-727--1-1--.html

BahÃ¥’í Day in Jamaica is observed annually on 25 July, but when former Governor General of Jamaica, Sir Howard Cooke, first proclaimed Baha’i Day fours years ago, Baha’is in Jamaica had no idea it would become an annual event.

Proclaimed in July 2003 as part of the sixtieth (60th) anniversary celebrations of the establishment of the...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Baha'i World News Service

http://www.bahaiworldnews.org/story/569

A huge dome has been lifted into place atop the new Baha'i Centre of Learning on the island of Tasmania, an Australian state that lies south of the mainland.

Six years in the planning and three years in the building, the new center boasts a 300-seat auditorium and other facilities that will be used not only for core Baha'i activities but also by...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Baha'i World News Service

http://www.bahaiworldnews.org/story/568

On July 9, Baha'is around the world commemorate the date in 1850 that the Bab - one of two main figures in the founding of their Faith - was executed by a firing squad in Iran, then called Persia.

The Bab, whose name means "gate" in Arabic, had declared in 1844 that He was a messenger of God sent to prepare the way for the long-awaited promised...

Author: Manya A. Brachear

Source: Chicago Tribune

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