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- International Convention is under way
- Results of a genuinely global election
- A song from Benin
- Who learns from whom?
- Returning home
- International Bahá’í Conventions – photos on Flickr
- In the prison cell of Bahá’u'lláh
- International Bahá’í Convention – official photo
- In the House of ‘Abbúd
- Reviving the world and regenerating its peoples
- If you love diversity, look at this…
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Tendayi Chingeye, a delegate from Zimbabwe.
A great new story on Bahá’í World News Service starts like this:
Experiencing the diversity of the human family can be humbling, as Bahá’ís attending their recent international convention learned.
Gregory C Dahl, a delegate from Bulgaria and former International Monetary Fund staffer thought it was the most diverse gathering of people on the planet – and he’s attended more than a few UN-related meetings.
At the United Nations, there are representatives from many countries, but not from so many different social, economic, and professional classes.
The story is illuminating, but the photographs touch the heart. Go have a look. These are people elected by their Bahá’í communities to represent them. I’m including a small selection of the pictures below.
Nuriyeh McLaren and Daniel Woodard, delegates from Venezuela.
Santos Vargas, a delegate from Bolivia.
Keyhan Ighanian (left) and Thor Henning Lerstad, both from Norway.
(All pictures © Bahá’í World News Service.)
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You’re right, the photographs do touch the heart. When I clicked the link I found myself wishing there were more.
At a diversity conference I attended recently, we talked about how diversity is both seen and unseen: the white male who is supporting his elderly parents as much as the black female. What I like about the story you report is just this unseen diversity – the Camaroon business woman who speaks more languages than the PhD.
Tess, I wholeheartedly agree with you about unseen diversity. Too often we tend to reduce diversity to differences in skin colour or religious affiliation, but it has long been my view that the diversity in so many, often unseen or unnoticed, facets of our humanity is a great joy to discover and celebrate.
In fact, Barney, it was Abdul Baha who talked about “diversity of thought and differing shades of character,” as I paraphrasingly remember, wasn’t it?
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