by Barney on 29 July 2008
CNN have posted the story of the violent arson attacks on Bahá’ís in Iran on their website.
Read it here.
Picture © 2008 Bahá’í International Community
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by Barney on 28 July 2008
The Bahá’í World News Service reports that Bahá’ís in Iran are being subjected to increased levels of violence. Homes and cars belonging to Bahá’ís have been torched in arson attacks.
The fire at the Shaaker home in Kerman was one of at least a dozen fires or arson attempts affecting the property of Iranian Baha’is in [...]
by Barney on 25 July 2008
Yesterday was the hottest day of the year in London so far in 2008 and we lined up to for the “Walk of Witness” for the Millennium Development Goals. Bishops as far as the eye could see! Purple cassocks combined oddly with sun hats – no mitres here – and the bishops’ wives’ dresses and [...]
by Barney on 22 July 2008
On Monday 21st July I attended the Government’s launch of its new inter-faith strategy in London’s famous Westminster Central Hall.
In introducing Face to Face and Side by Side: A Framework for Partnership in Our Multi Faith Society, Communities Secretary, Hazel Blears MP, spoke of the practical contribution made by faith communities to life in the [...]
by Barney on 19 July 2008
Consider this. You’re standing at the end of a street of more than a hundred houses. It looks like it’s going to rain – in fact, you just felt a few drops on your head. There’s a noisy gang of lads working on a white van in front of a house on the other side [...]
by Barney on 19 July 2008
Sorry to bore you with wedding photos, but once I’d got the album out and started to scan, it seemed a pity not to show what things looked like when Erica and I got wed on 18 July 1970.
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by Barney on 19 July 2008
Oh well, Erica and I failed to celebrate our 38th wedding anniversary! Not, of course, that we forgot our anniversary – although we have done so in previous years – we were just too tired to drag ourselves out to one of the local hostelries for dinner.
But here we are 38 years ago. Aren’t we [...]
by Barney on 18 July 2008
“So, do you work for Biddles full time?” I asked the chap with the bottle of wine in his hand.
“Actually I own the company,” he replied, and smiled.
Covered in confusion, I said, “That’s a conversation stopper.” But, of course, it wasn’t. And the boat kept on sailing down river.
Erica and I were guests at Norman [...]
by Barney on 16 July 2008
If you want to catch a glimpse of the Bahá’í vision of the future, you could do worse that look at the Global Mindshift website, whose aim is:
Our purpose is to “contribute to the emerging global community,” and our mission is to “help make the emergence of global community unstoppable.”
(And perhaps you could join the [...]
by Barney on 16 July 2008
I’ve been hoping to find time to share some stories and thoughts about my experience last weekend on the streets of Hatfield talking to people about the Baha’i Faith.
Unfortunately time has shot past and I’ve been tied up with meetings or urgent things to do and unable to make time to write here. What’s more, [...]
