Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
From the monthly archives:
Baha’is around the world will be thrilled to learn that the Court of Administrative Justice in Cairo has today handed down a decision that will allow Egypt’s Baha’is to leave the religious affiliation field on their ID cards blank.
It may seem a small thing, but the two cases decided today will make it possible for [...]
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I have had one of those strange (but entirely banal) epiphanies that come to one during the boring parts of meetings.
Sitting in Committee Room 4 of the House of Lords last Thursday during a meeting of the Attorney General’s Equality and Diversity Group, I tuned out of the meeting and looked down at the [...]
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Last Thursday, attending a meeting of the Attorney General’s Equality and Advisory Group (three cheers to Baroness Scotland for continuing her predecessor’s initiative) we sat in a high-ceilinged committee room in the House of Lords. Massive paintings of the coronations of King George V and King George VI adorned the two end walls of the [...]
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This story on the MEMRI Iran Media Blog claims that Iran’s President Ahmadinejad considers the universal rule of the Hidden Imam humanity’s most important need.
As a Baha’i, I think he’s right.
This article on the Baha’i Topics website will tell you why. Stick with the article, which is quite long, if you want to really understand [...]
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Photo by Deryc Sands ©Parliamentary Copyright
I was cheered to read this intervention by Bob Spink MP, a member of the All-Party Parliamentary Friends of the Baha’is, in a recent Westminster Hall Adjournment Debate in the UK House of Commons. The debate was about the Foreign Affairs Committee’s eighth report of the 2006-07 parliamentary session on [...]
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I was appalled to read this on the BBC News website:
UK astronomers will lose access to two of the world’s finest telescopes in February, as administrators look to plug an £80m hole in their finances.
Observation programmes on the 8.1m telescopes of the Gemini organisation will end abruptly because Britain is cancelling its subscription.
It means UK [...]
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OK, this is scary!
Hans Thimm, a Baha’i who has been living in Albania for 16 years with his family as Baha’i pioneers (after having pioneered in Haiti for 11 years), has just sent Erica this photo taken at the Baha’i summer school that took place in the Shetland Islands in 1974.
Erica and I are [...]
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Rainbow over the Shrine of the Báb and the International Teaching Centre
My recent trip to the Baha’i World Centre in Haifa in Israel coincided with the twin anniversaries of the Birthday of the Bab and the Birthday of Baha’u’llah, as celebrated in the lunar calendar.
Most Baha’i communities celebrate these birthdays according to the solar calendar [...]
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I had the extraordinary privilege yesterday of attending the celebration of the Birthday of the Báb in the Seat of the Universal House of Justice at the Baha’i World Centre in Haifa, Israel.
There’s so much I want to write about this event, the feelings it engendered, the tears I shed, but I am on an [...]
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Amazingly I got through airport security at Heathrow very quickly (it was early in the morning and Terminal 4 was quite empty). My flight was completely problem free – left on time, arrived on time.
So now I am here:
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