Source: www.rabwah.net By Ehsan Rehan Pakistan’s Shia leader has warned the public and the government of the dangers posed by Bahais and Ahmadis. Allama Iqbal Bahishti urged the public and authorities to be watchful of the…
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Senior Cleric in Iran Calls for Ending of Discrimination of Baha’is in Bicentenary Message
Source: bicentenary.bahai.org By Ayatollah Abdul-Hamid Masumi Tehrani Translation by Iran Press Watch In the Name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful Baha’is all over the world are commemorating and celebrating the Bicentenary of the…
Bahais Mark 200th Birthday of Their Messenger, Whose Focus on Equality Resonates Today
Source: www.washingtonpost.com By Julie Zauzmer The Bahai faith is one of the youngest world religions — on Sunday, it will celebrate the birthday of its messenger, Baha’u’llah, who was born just 200 years ago. But to the…
Milestone for the world’s youngest religion
Source: www.thetimes.co.uk By Michael Binyon Communities celebrate, but still face persecution Two hundred years ago a man was born in Tehran who became a passionate promoter of the unity of God, of religion and of mankind. He…
World Leaders Congratulate Baha’is on Bicentennial Celebrations
Source: www.iranwire.com By ARASH AZIZI The small village of Daga is located a remote corner of Papua New Guinea, a country known for its small, isolated and diverse communities. But geographical isolation doesn’t mean the people of…
“Light to the World”: Film about Baha’u’llah released online
Source: news.bahai.org BAHA’I WORLD CENTRE — “Light to the World,” a film about the life and teachings of Baha’u’llah commissioned by the Universal House of Justice was released today on the official website for the bicentenary commemoration. The film…
Bahraini King’s Declaration of Worldwide Religious Tolerance Unveiled at Historic Simon Wiesenthal Center Interfaith Event
Source: www.wiesenthal.com The Bahrain Declaration on Religious Tolerance – a plain-speaking attack against terrorism authored by HRH King Hamad of Bahrain – was released at an historic event co-sponsored by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.…
I’m Baha’i, But I Was the Victim of an Anti-Muslim Hate Crime in America
Source: www.theislamicmonthly.com By Hasel Afshar, as told to TIM Editors. In Iran, I was persecuted for not being Muslim. In America, I was targeted because someone thought I was Muslim. I was born in a small…
Hate Graffiti Sprayed in Home of Iran Refugee
Source: koin.com Every room in the house was damaged Chris Holmstrom and KOIN 6 News Staff PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A Troutdale man returned home after 3 days out of town to find his house extensively damaged…
50 Iranian-Americans you Should Know: Payam Zamani
Source: www.iranwire.com By NATASHA SCHMIDT Payam Zamani is an entrepreneur, philanthropist and investor. His company One Planet Ops is a hybrid tech firm that runs a suite of online technology businesses in the real estate, home improvement,…
Towards a History of Iran’s Baha’i Community During the Reign of Mohammad Reza Shah, 1941-1979
Irannamag By Mina Yazdani Moving away from simplistic and monolithic narratives, this paper investigates the multi-layered, multi-faceted history of the Baha’i community of Iran during the reign of the last Pahlavi monarch. It argues that the…
Baha’is of Iran website launches
Source: Baha’i World News Service Following the wave of national Baha’i websites that have launched in recent years, the site of the Baha’i community of Iran went online earlier today. The website, which can be…
I fled Iran after being imprisoned for my religion. Now …
Source: www.thetab.com ‘You never think the horror stories are going to happen to you’ Born in Tehran, Iran, Nasim Biglari is a twenty-nine year-old visual art and media student at the University of California, San Diego.…
Dr. King’s Dream and a Prisoner in Baghdad 150 Years Ago
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com By Homa Sabet Tavangar1 In anticipation of the Martin Luther King holiday, I wanted to show my daughters the St. Francis College Bulletin of 1976 that featured a photo of my mother studying with her…
Apostasy in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Source: www.iranhrdc.org (July 30, 2014) – IHRDC’s latest 50-page report, Apostasy in the Islamic Republic of Iran, details the jurisprudential as well as the legal context in which apostasy cases are prosecuted in the Islamic…
Non-Persian Iran
Source: www.jewishpolicycenter.org Kenneth R. Timmerman • Winter 2017 When most people think of Iran, they think “Death to America,” terrorists and turbans, evil-looking beards and missiles rising from bright, arid canyons. If they think further, some…
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