Bahai Faith

Turkmenistan’s Religious Minorities Under Pressure

Despite small signs of greater tolerance, the official attitude towards religious minorities in Turkmenistan remains oppressive, NBCentralAsia say observers. Hopes of improvement were raised when the head of the Eurasia...

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Iran: Bahai 'Spies' to be Tried 'Soon'

Follow Israel news briefs on and (IsraelNN.com) Iranian news sources said Sunday that Tehran would "soon" try seven members of the Bahai faith who were accused of spying for Israel, and of "blasphemy." Six of the defendants...

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Orlando Bahai Center goes up in flames

Arson investigators were looking Tuesday into two fires in three days that destroyed the Orlando Bahá'í Center in Orlando. The first fire in the one-story wood building on Hillcrest Street was reported at 4:48 a.m. Sunday. When...

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25 Years After Escaping Iran

Its hard to imagine that its been almost 25 years since my parents secretly smuggled many of our family members out of Iran due to brutal religious persecution. Persecution that is unfortunately picking up once again in todays...

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Orlando Bahai Center goes up in flames

Bianca Prieto Sentinel Staff Writer Firefighters battled a blaze at the local Bahá'í center near downtown early Tuesday morning -- the second fire at the building since Saturday. Orlando Fire Department responded to the...

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Bahai faith event in Dalton

Oct 26 2009 Huddersfield Daily Examiner MEMBERS of the Baha'i Faith in Kirklees joined followers around the world in marking a holy day. October 20 was the anniversary of the birth of one of the central figures of their faith....

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Bahai are persecuted in Iran

Stop religious persecution in Iran By Rainn Wilson, Special to CNN, October 24, 2009 STORY HIGHLIGHTS Rainn Wilson: I'm a member of the Baha'i faith, founded in the 1800s in Iran He says the faith has been persecuted on and ...

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Gambia: NSGA Organises HIV/Aids Sensitisation Forum

Nova Scotia-Gambia Association (NSGA) in collaboration with the World Food Programme (WFP), yesterday began a four-day sensitisation forum on HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), held at the Bahai National...

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60 Religious Leaders to Meet Tuesday at Bahai Gardens

Follow Israel news briefs on and (IsraelNN.com) About 60 religious leaders are scheduled to meet Tuesday in the Bahai gardens in Haifa as part of the fourth biennial assembly of the World Council of Religious Leaders which is...

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This Sunday... - unitalian

Cross-posted from UKSpirituality TRUTHS & TRIALS While most readers of this blog will have been drawn here by an interest in or expression of spirituality, most of us will not have suffered persecu...

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