Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
From the monthly archives:
Some of Hatfield’s 35 Indian Baha’is and their friends
What an evening! More than 120 people – Baha’is and their friends from all over Hertfordshire – noisily celebrated the anniversary of the Declaration of the Bab with prayers, music, food and dancing in Hatfield’s Roe Hill Hall last night.
Declaration of the Bab
The Declaration of the Bab [...]
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I meant to post some of these pics of the wonderful gardens at Coton Manor in Northamptonshire a while ago, but something went awry on my server and then I was too busy to post anything.
Anyway, a couple of weekends ago Mrs Barnabas and I stayed with our friends Howard and Liz from our days [...]
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Who is “spreading corruption on earth”?
Come Thursday, six of the members of the ad hoc group that coordinated the life of the Baha’i community of Iran – the Yaran – will have been in jail for exactly a year. They are Mrs Fariba Kamalabadi, Mr Jamaloddin Khanjani, Mr Afif Naemi, Mr Saeid Rezaie, Mr Behrouz [...]
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My friend Ineke Gijsbers, a Baha’i who lives in the north east of England, is in New York for the 17th session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development.
She’s there on behalf the national governing council of the UK Baha’i community and will be part of the international delegation representing the Baha’i International Community.
These UN [...]
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Barnabas declaiming at Baha’i meeting in Westminster. Photo © 2009 Mark Bamford
Around 120 people sat through my talk at the Westminster Baha’i community’s public meeting for the Baha’i festival of Ridvan last night. The subject? Baha’u’llah, His Revelation and Mission.
Outline for my talk on Baha’u’llah – click on it to enlarge it
The programme also included [...]
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