Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
From the daily archives:
Phillipe does a great job with his regular round-up of Baha’i blogs that have particularly struck him in the last week or so.
I’m amazed at the number of Baha’i blogs that are on the go – around 200-300, according to Phillipe. Of course, that’s a drop in the mighty blog ocean, and not a high [...]
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A gloriously sunny afternoon drew Erica and me out of doors for a walk this afternoon. Today’s a public holiday in the UK, so felt justified in abandoning our respective desks and tasks for the pleasures of the countryside.
We’re fortunate to live in an area that is well provided with footpaths and lanes that are [...]
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News of the intensifying persecution of the Baha’is in Iran just keeps coming.
There have been two very disturbing murders of elderly Iranian Baha’i women in their homes.
Behnam Saltanat Akhzari, an 85-year-old resident of Abbas Abad, a dependency of Abadeh in Shiraz, was killed on 16 February 2007. The following day, Shah Beygom Dehghani, a [...]
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I was intrigued to find out that one of the members of our Baha’i Local Spiritual Assembly in Welwyn (that’s in England’s beautiful county of Hertfordshire) has won a newspaper competition.
thelondonpaper is a free sheet that is forced on innocent home-going commuters at London’s railway stations by purple-clad young people.
Maani Saafa has won [...]
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Bilo’s post on an article in the Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm about Western coverage of the sufferings of the Baha’is in Egypt has been picked up here by the Middle East Interfaith Blogger Network.
(I found this out because Bilo’s link to one of my posts created a pingback from mefaith.com.)
It’s worth having a look [...]
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