Author: Ellen Spitaleri

Source: The Clackamas Review

http://www.clackamasreview.com/features/story.php?story_id=123186742668464400

World Religion Day is coming up this Sunday and if you have ever wondered what that is all about, Erica Toussaint can tell you.

The Milwaukie resident, a member of the Baha'i Faith, said the Baha'is began World Religion Day in 1950 as one of the observance days to “heighten public...

Author: Erin Wiltgen

Source: The Herald-Sun

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Iranian Press Watch

http://www.iranpresswatch.org/2008/12/a-book-dealer-arrested-in-arak-accused-of-being-bahai/

The following news report was posted in Persian on Peyke Iran and Pezchvake Iran online sites:

According to reports received at our office, a cultural activist in Arak by the name of Kamran Jamshidi, the manager of Shahr-Ketab bookstore in that town, was...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Bahá’í World News Service

http://www.bahaiworldnews.org/story/683

The series of 41 Baha’i conferences being held around the world continued this past weekend with gatherings in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Kuching, Sarawak, in Malaysia.

The 1,700 people gathered in Brazil and the 1,300 in Malaysia represented the largest Baha’i conferences ever held in those countries.

Members of the Baha’i...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Bahá’í World News Service

http://www.bahaiworldnews.org/story/682

The Baha'i International Community today expressed grave concern over the closing by the Iranian government of Shirin Ebadi’s Defenders of Human Rights Center in Tehran and called for its reopening.

“The closing of Mrs. Ebadi’s office is a blow to human rights for the whole of Iran,” said Diane Ala’i, a representative of...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Bahá’í World News Service

http://www.bahaiworldnews.org/story/681

The United Nations General Assembly today adopted a resolution expressing “deep concern at serious human rights violations” in Iran.

The resolution, which passed by a vote of 69 to 54, specifically criticized Iran’s use of torture, the high incidence of executions, the “violent repression” of women, and “increasing...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Bahá’í World News Service

http://www.bahaiworldnews.org/

Groups and individuals around the world this month have been commemorating the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which occurred on 10 December 1948. The United Nations has designated the anniversary each year as Human Rights Day.

Last week the Baha’i International Community was one of 11 faith groups whose...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Persecution of Baha’is in Iran

http://iran.bahai.us/2008/12/10/more-baha’is-detained-26-currently-in-prison/

Three Baha’is have been arrested in Mazandaran province, one in Ghaemshahr and two in Sari. Their homes were searched and Baha’i materials were confiscated. The arrests occurred on 18 November and 22 November.

In another case, three Baha’is were...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Baha’i Faith

http://iran.bahai.us/2008/12/01/muslim-students-protest-baha’i-expelled-from-iranian-university/

Twenty-six Muslim students at Goldshat College in Kelardasht, Mazandaran, refused to take their first-term final examinations in protest of the expulsion of a fellow classmate because he is a Baha’i.

The following is an account which...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Coleraine Times

http://www.colerainetimes.co.uk/churches/Special-day-for-Bahai-in.4732961.jp

The members of the Bahá'í community in Coleraine, like their fellows in thousands of places throughout the world, marked Monday as the Day of the Covenant.

"This was a special occasion for us," said local Bahá'í Mrs Flora Luck.

"We were remembering the way our faith safeguarded...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Bahá’í World News Service

http://www.bahaiworldnews.org/story/670

The Baha’i International Community praised the United Nations General Assembly for today rejecting a so-called “no-action motion” on human rights in Iran.

Such a motion, if it had passed, would have used procedural rules to set aside a resolution that is sharply critical of the Islamic Republic of Iran over its use of torture, the...

Author: Abdel-Rahman Hussein

Source: Daily News Egypt

http://dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=17789

The Administrative Judiciary Court ruled in favor of a Bahai student in his effort to receive a new identification card so he could return to his studies at Alexandria University.

The ruling was given in a session overseen by the head of the administrative judiciary and the deputy head of the State Council Mohamed Ahmed Attiya,...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Bahá’í World News Service

http://www.bahaiworldnews.org/story/668

More than a thousand Baha’is from nearly a dozen countries came together for a regional conference that turned out to be the largest Baha’i gathering ever held in South Africa.

A simultaneous conference this past weekend in Nakuru, Kenya, also drew more than a thousand participants.

After only the second weekend of a four-month...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Bahá’í World News Service

http://www.bahaiworldnews.org/story/667

The Baha’i center in Seoul was the site of a special program – one of thousands around the world – marking the 191st anniversary of the birth of Baha’u’llah, which occurred on 12 November 1817 in Tehran, Iran.

The anniversary is one of nine holy days during the year on which Baha’is suspend work.

...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Bahá’í World News Service

http://www.bahaiworldnews.org/story/666

A collection of 500 photographs of Baha’i activities around the world is now available for viewing and downloading on the official Baha’i Web site.

The link to the specific Web section, titled “Attaining the dynamics of growth: Images from five continents,” is http://www.bahai.org/attaining/.

The photographs,...