Free the 7 Bahá’í leaders in Iran

by Barney on 17 May 2008

Free the 7 Baha'is in Iran

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BQ closing down – for a time, at least

by Barney on 31 January 2010

Regular visitors to Barnabas Quotidianus will have noticed the decreasing frequency of posts.

Sadly, I’ve run out of blogging energy and imagination – for the time being, at least. So, rather than pretend to myself that I’m going to be writing something soon, I’ve decided to acknowledge the reality and give myself time off from BQ. So, after this, there will be no more posts for an indefinite period, while I give some thought to what I want to do on the web.

I have some ideas for other blogs, but I’m not sure that I want to put energy into them right now. Blogging has become kind of mainstream – not that that is necessarily a bad thing – but I feel that social networks are where it’s at right now.

BQ will remain on display for a time, but will join the legions of inactive blogs that are sitting on the web.

Find me elsewhere…

If you want to keep up with me, my life, my doings, my thoughts (not sure why you would, but just in case), you can find me on:

By the way, I can highly recommend Posterous as a blogging tool. It is both powerful and flexible and links into your Facebook page, Twitter, your blog, etc (if you want it to). It also stands very well by itself.

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Baha’i leaders on trial in Iran

13 January 2010
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Yesterday we found out that the seven pictured above, the former ad hoc coordinating group for the Baha’is in Iran, had gone on trial. They’d been held without formal charge in Evin Prison in Tehran since Spring 2008. Iranian government-sponsored media repeated the charges against the Baha’is:

espionage,
“propaganda activities against the Islamic order,”
the establishment of an [...]

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How one Baha’i family deals with Christmas

24 December 2009
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Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) — As Christmas season went into full swing this year, Glen Fullmer’s 7-year-old son came home from school with an assignment: Make a poster illustrating his family holiday traditions.
The boy wasn’t sure how to proceed because he and his family are Baha’is, not Christians, and they have no holidays during the [...]

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Baha’i – one of nine faiths contributing to ARC statement for Copenhagen climate summit

1 December 2009
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The Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC) have issued a Statement of Faith for the upcoming Copenhagen climate summit on behalf of nine of the world’s major religions, which together reach out to 85 per cent of the world’s population.
The eyes of the world are on Copenhagen [...]

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Do faith schools really promote community cohesion better than non-faith schools?

28 November 2009
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Questions raised over C of E report on church schools and community cohesion

By staff writers
27 Nov 2009

A report commissioned by the Church of England claims that faith schools are better at building relationships with their local communities than non-religious schools.
But critics say that the report does not demonstrate this, and instead gives church schools [...]

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Violence: let’s separate the men from the boys | Camila Batmanghelidjh – Times Online

26 November 2009

From The Times
November 26, 2009
Violence: let’s separate the men from the boys
Posters, T-shirts and education campaigns won’t do. Only robust child protection will break the cycle for boys – and girls

Camila Batmanghelidjh

It is wonderful to hear that the Government is launching an “ambitious strategy aiming to bring an [...]

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A Baha’i at Windsor Castle faiths and environment summit

8 November 2009
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Well, last week was an interesting one. Monday I drove over to Windsor (yes, Windsor where the Castle is) to follow the “Many Heavens, One Earth” celebration of environmental commitments by major faith communities.
I had been asked to provide material for the story about the event that appeared on the Baha’i World News Service.
Who was [...]

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Faith communities should unite to combat religious persecution

7 November 2009

Human dignity is indivisible

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One dismaying estimate of the number of people who died violently because of their religion between 1900 and 2000 includes 70 million Muslims; 35 million Christians; 11 million Hindus; nine million Jews; four million Buddhists; two million Sikhs and one [...]

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Climate change debate spurs warm feelings amongst religious leaders

30 October 2009
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It is rare that religion and science find agreement, but that is what happened when Britain’s Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks spoke at a meeting on saving the earth from climate change.
“The great Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson published a book in 2007 called “Creation”, subtitled An Appeal to Save Life on Earth,” Sacks told leaders of [...]

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US House of Representatives condemns the persecution of Bahá’ís in Iran

23 October 2009

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U.S. House of Representatives Passes 11th Resolution Condemning the Persecution of Bahá’ís in Iran
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Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed, by a vote of 407-2, a resolution condemning the government of Iran for “state-sponsored persecution of its Bahá’í minority and its continued violation of the International Covenants on Human [...]

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