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The Baha'i Faith is the youngest of the world's independent religions, comprising some 5 million believers. Its founder, Bahá'u'lláh (1817-1892), is regarded by Baha'is as the most recent on the line of Messengers of God that stretches back beyond recorded time and that includes Abraham, Moses, Buddha, Zoroaster, Christ and Muhammad. Read More · View Presentation

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Iran Jails Bahá’í Educators, Calling Their Canadian Degrees Illegal

Friday, 24 February 2012 16:22

This article first appeared in the February 2012 edition of the CAUT Bulletin, which is widely circulated and read by professors across Canada. The lead to the article was mentioned on the front page of the publication and the article had excellent placement on page two. The bulletin is published by the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT). CAUT has more than 66,000 members from the academic community.

image The seven imprisoned Baha'i educators are (top row, left to right): Mahmoud Badavam, Ramin Zibaie, Riaz Sobhani, Farhad Sedghi; (bottom row, left to right) Noushin Khadem, Kamran Mortezaie, and Vahid Mahmoudi. © BWNSOttawa, Ontario, 24 February 2012 (CBNS)— For more than a decade Canadian universities and professors have played a quiet but essential role in providing graduate education to Bahá’í students banned from university in Iran because of their religion. Now, the Iranian government is declaring their Canadian degrees “illegal.” They are also imprisoning Bahá’í faculty and staff involved with a community initiative known as the Bahá’í Institute for Higher Education (BIHE), set up in 1987 after the Iranian government fired all Bahá’í professors and expelled Bahá’í students from post-secondary institutions.

In 1998 Carleton University began accepting Iranian Bahá’í graduate students who had completed the equivalent of an undergraduate degree at BIHE. Based on the exceptional academic performance of the first few BIHE students other Canadian universities admitted BIHE graduates to pursue Master’s and PhD degrees. These include the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, the University of Manitoba, Queen’s University, the University of Ottawa, McGill University and Concordia University.

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‘Days outside of time’ festival reveres eternal essence of God

Friday, 24 February 2012 16:00

From sunset Feb. 25 to sunset March 1, Baha’is will be exchanging gifts, getting together with friends and family, and engaging in acts of charity – activities that characterize the festival of Ayyam-i-Ha.

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Groundbreaking documentary exposes century-old Iranian taboo

Thursday, 23 February 2012 16:00

[BWNS, 21 Feb. 2012] LOS ANGELES — A feature-length film that examines the persecution of Iran’s Baha’is opens here this week, ahead of a program of screenings throughout the United States and in other countries. Iranian Taboo is the work of celebrated Dutch-Iranian filmmaker Reza Allamehzadeh. “In spite of the fact that I’m banned from entering my homeland, [...]

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Instant fireside: a dash of vision, a pinch of perceptiveness

Tuesday, 21 February 2012 09:00

The language of community building, ubiquitous in guidance from the Universal House of Justice, is making its way into our everyday speech. A prime example is how the age-old question “What is the Baha’i Faith?” is answered. Many Baha’is have a set “instant fireside” that introduces the Faith, its teachings and aims, and the station [...]

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Learning from our encounters with searching souls

Tuesday, 21 February 2012 09:00

Learning opportunities — and bounties — abound when you strive to identify and meet the spiritual needs of another soul. Accompanying a seeker has its rewards Tara Higgins of Sebastian, Florida, shares this story: “This week I received an email informing me of a seeker in the Sebastian area. I was only given the seeker’s name (Cherie) [...]

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Hearts, minds and structures: Facing ‘exigencies of the age’

Tuesday, 21 February 2012 09:00

“Uncompromising in defense of the truth, yet infinitely gentle in manner, ['Abdu'l-Bahá] brought the universal divine principles to bear on the exigencies of the age.” So wrote the Universal House of Justice in its message at Ridván 2011. Stories in the January/February 2012 issue of The American Bahá’í detailed what many of our brothers and [...]

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Home visits cement bonds, inspire service

Tuesday, 21 February 2012 09:00

At first blush it doesn’t seem a difficult task: Arrange to visit someone, and at that encounter share a prayer and chat about … whatever. And it isn’t, say Baha’is who have engaged in such visits to the homes of Baha’is they haven’t seen in a while, of new believers, and of others they wish [...]

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Lessons from SED world apply in our neighborhoods, too

Tuesday, 21 February 2012 09:00

Make friends. Build trust. Learn people’s needs. Be flexible. These are critical to the success of any social and economic development project, say three longtime practitioners who participated in the Baha’i Conference on Social and Economic Development. And just might aid the rest of us when opportunities for social action arise naturally from our neighborhood [...]

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Turning clumps into gardens, strangers into family: priceless

Tuesday, 21 February 2012 09:00

Feeling overwhelmed by the length of the path ahead as humanity sets out out to remake the world in God’s image? Listen to Judy Parsley: “I had a garden once,” she writes. “Every year I would add a little of this and a little of that: flowers, herbs, rocks. “If there was a particularly interesting [...]

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Posture of learning fuels service with other faith groups

Tuesday, 21 February 2012 09:00

Baha’is who engage in social action alongside members of other faiths say a posture of mutual learning and respect is leading to more effective service. “In a nutshell,” says Noel Jost-Coq, “[these other faiths] have been walking the walk for decades, and we are infants. We have the [Baha'i] writings, but that alone doesn’t make [...]

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Queen launches Diamond Jubilee year with multifaith reception

Tuesday, 21 February 2012 05:00

image Representatives of the United Kingdom Baha'i community joined members of eight other religions at a special gathering to mark the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. At a reception held at Lambeth Palace – official residence of the Archbishop of Canterbury – Baha'is, Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jains, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs and Zoroastrians discussed their beliefs with the...

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Groundbreaking documentary exposes century-old Iranian taboo

Tuesday, 21 February 2012 05:00

image A feature-length film that examines the persecution of Iran's Baha'is opens here this week, ahead of a program of screenings throughout the United States and in other countries. Iranian Taboo is the work of celebrated Dutch-Iranian filmmaker Reza Allamehzadeh. "In spite of the fact that I'm banned from entering my homeland, I managed to film deep inside Iran with the help of...

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Iran's human rights abuses condemned at national events

Tuesday, 21 February 2012 05:00

image Recent national-level events held in the United States, Bulgaria and Canada reflect the ongoing global outcry at the Iranian authorities' crackdown on Baha'is. A hearing in the U.S. Capitol building on 15 February brought together some 100 Congressional staff, US agency officials, and representatives of human rights and religious NGOs. The hearing sought to promote the passage of House...

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Interviews with Frances Worthington, author of Abraham: One God, Three Wives, Five Religions

Monday, 20 February 2012 14:17

Watch and listen to these video and podcast interviews with Frances Worthington, author of Abraham: One God, Three Wives, Five Religions Abraham: One God, Three Wives, Five Religions “brings a fresh and lively interfaith perspective to the four-thousand-year-old story of Abraham, Sarah, Hagar, Keturah and their eight children. Follow the adventure from the lush marshes of Mesopotamia to the [...]

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Whitney Houston and the Power of Music

Monday, 20 February 2012 13:07

Phillipe Copeland, in his latest entry on blogcritics, notes how the passing of Whitney Houston, is “an opportunity to consider the power of music itself.” “This power imposes responsibilities on both its creators and its consumers. One of the things I’ve found most striking since hearing of her death are the spontaneous and heartfelt testimonies about [...]

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Sunday, 19 February 2012 00:00

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