Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
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Yesterday we found out that the seven pictured above, the former ad hoc coordinating group for the Baha’is in Iran, had gone on trial. They’d been held without formal charge in Evin Prison in Tehran since Spring 2008. Iranian government-sponsored media repeated the charges against the Baha’is:
espionage,
“propaganda activities against the Islamic order,”
the establishment of an [...]
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Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) — As Christmas season went into full swing this year, Glen Fullmer’s 7-year-old son came home from school with an assignment: Make a poster illustrating his family holiday traditions.
The boy wasn’t sure how to proceed because he and his family are Baha’is, not Christians, and they have no holidays during the [...]
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The Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC) have issued a Statement of Faith for the upcoming Copenhagen climate summit on behalf of nine of the world’s major religions, which together reach out to 85 per cent of the world’s population.
The eyes of the world are on Copenhagen [...]
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Well, last week was an interesting one. Monday I drove over to Windsor (yes, Windsor where the Castle is) to follow the “Many Heavens, One Earth” celebration of environmental commitments by major faith communities.
I had been asked to provide material for the story about the event that appeared on the Baha’i World News Service.
Who was [...]
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Human dignity is indivisible
By David Kilgour, Citizen SpecialNovember 6, 2009Be the first to post a comment
One dismaying estimate of the number of people who died violently because of their religion between 1900 and 2000 includes 70 million Muslims; 35 million Christians; 11 million Hindus; nine million Jews; four million Buddhists; two million Sikhs and one [...]
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It is rare that religion and science find agreement, but that is what happened when Britain’s Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks spoke at a meeting on saving the earth from climate change.
“The great Harvard biologist E.O. Wilson published a book in 2007 called “Creation”, subtitled An Appeal to Save Life on Earth,” Sacks told leaders of [...]
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Oct22
U.S. House of Representatives Passes 11th Resolution Condemning the Persecution of Bahá’ís in Iran
04:43 pm on Oct 22nd 2009 OEA
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed, by a vote of 407-2, a resolution condemning the government of Iran for “state-sponsored persecution of its Bahá’í minority and its continued violation of the International Covenants on Human [...]
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Speaking at the UN General Assembly during the past week, Iran’s President Ahmadinejad professed concern for justice, freedom and human rights. He claimed that Iran is “one big and unified family” with full legal rights for religious minorities.
How interesting that Mr Ahmadinejad should decide that it was time to try to sweet-talk world leaders with [...]
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Frank Furedi
Getting God to do their dirty work
In seeking to use religion to force people to change their eco-unfriendly behaviour, greens are debasing both religious belief and scientific truth.
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We live in world where the cynical manipulation of people’s fears and anxieties often overrides informed public debate. Principles and beliefs seem to have become negotiable [...]
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IN THE 19TH CENTURY, the paramount moral challenge was slavery. In the 20th century, it was totalitarianism. In this century, it is the brutality inflicted on so many women and girls around the globe: sex trafficking, acid attacks, bride burnings and mass rape.
Yet if the injustices that women in poor countries suffer are of paramount [...]
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