Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
From the monthly archives:
Our Bahá’í conference at Acuto in sunny Italy has finished and I shall be back home and back to the blog tomorrow – God willing and the creeks don’t rise!
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Three Bahá’ís in Yemen are under imminent threat of deportation to Iran, according to this story from the Bahá’í World News Service and this AP story on the Jerusalem Post website. If they are sent to Iran they may well face imprisonment or torture.
According to the Bahá’í World News Service:
The three Baha’is were arrested in [...]
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I am at the Bahá’í Studies Centre, Hotel La Panoramica in Acuto, south of Rome, for a week. Lovely sun!
But I’m actually here for work – believe it or not.
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Nelson Evora, a Bahá’í from Portugal, has won the gold medal for the triple jump at the Beijing Olympics. He had previously won the triple jump World Champion title at the athletics world championships in Osaka in August 2007.
Back in 2004, the Bahá’í World News Service posted a story about the support a number of [...]
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Wilma O’Sullivan, a UK Bahá’í who lives in China, had the honour of carrying the Olympic torch when it passed through the Chinese province of Hebel, where she currently lives.
This story has just been published by The Wirral Globe, the local paper of the part of England Wilma comes from.
Wilma O’Sullivan, 52, was asked to [...]
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The Jerusalem Post has reported that six Bahá’ís in Yemen have been arrested.Says the Post:
Though not officially banned in Yemen, the Bahá’í religion is considered by some Muslims as heresy.
These arrests come on top of the detention of nine people for converting from Islam to Christianity. Conversion from Islam to any other religion is illegal [...]
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Is Shirin Ebadi’s daughter a member of the Bahá’í Faith? This was the claim made by IRNA, the Iranian news agency, recently, But the claim is completely untrue.
According to Africasia.com (which has published a story from AFP), Iranian Nobel peace laureate has lodged a complaint with the court about IRNA’s false claim:
Ebadi accused the state [...]
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I was rooting around in my diary files the other day and found this unfinished story. I wrote it at the time Conrad Black, former owner of the Daily Telegraph, was on trial in the US for fraud. Conrad Black was someone who knew how to use the power of words to get people to [...]
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It took all day yesterday, but BQ is now safely sitting on (in?) its cloud. It took time to download files from the old server and to upload them to the new one, but it was done. And the DNS changes propagated more quickly than I had feared they might.
To quote the great Christian mystic, [...]
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I’ve just joined this excellent place on the web called Soul Talk. It’s a place to explore concepts of spiritual import.
Soul Talk’s aim?
Welcome to Soul Talk. Our aim is to bring souls together to engage in conversations on topics of spiritual import in an atmosphere of love and humility, and using “…an [...]
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