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As many prepare for their annual Thanksgiving celebrations, members of the Santa Fe Bahá’í community will be celebrating one the most important holy days of their faith.
TEHRAN -- Iran's judiciary is deciding on prison sentences for seven leaders of the Bahai community, who are being put on trial behind closed doors in Tehran, the semi-official Iranian Students ...
A secret memorandum was uncovered and published by the U.N. Human Rights Commission in 1993. Written by the Iranian Supreme Revolutionary Cultural Council in 1991 and signed by Supreme Leader ...
The Baha’i calendar is divided into 19 months of 19 days each, with 11 holy days. That leaves four days — known as Ayyám-i-Há, or the intercalary days — unaccounted for.
BRATTLEBORO -- A devotional program on the theme of "Universal Education, A Human Right" will be held at the Brattleboro Baha’i Center, 148 Elliot St., on Sunday, March 11, at 1:30 p.m. In Iran, ...
Even though I’m not Baha’i, I still do feel welcomed and I still feel there,” said Clayton. There are more than 6 million Baha'is worldwide and about 177,000 in the United States.
Sunday -- 100 years to the day since ‘Abdu’l-Baha Abbas Sept. 23, 1912 visit -- Lincoln’s Baha’i community will commemorate the anniversary by touring each of the places the Baha’i ...
GRAND RAPIDS -- Shawn Eshragh, of Cascade Township, has a personal interest in Iran's persecution of the Bahai community, but he believes everyone is affected. His cousin, whom he described as "an ...
In The Wall Street Journal, former political prisoner Roxana Saberi writes that she was released from Evin Prison after 100 days, but friends of hers remain behind bars because of their religion.