Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
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Anderson High School taken from Lerwick Harbour
I’ve just had a message on Facebook from a former history student of mine at the Anderson High School in Lerwick, the capital of Shetland. It was surprising – not to say disconcerting – and wonderful at the same time. This is what she wrote:
Well if I’m not mistaken, [...]
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The Times has today published an open letter signed by a number of prominent human rights campaigners, academics, lawyers and church leaders calling on the government of Iran
… to allow full and unfettered access to education for all members of the Iranian Baha’i community, and to cease the harassment of Baha’is at any and all [...]
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Worth Abbey is set in in beautiful Sussex countryside, not far from Crawley. That’s where Mrs Barnabas and I went yesterday for an inter-faith gathering in the Unity Room, which is part of the Abbey Church building.
The gathering was one of the regular Faiths in Sussex events at Worth Abbey.
My faith, our world
I was one [...]
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What would you think if your daughter was permanently expelled from school for smiling during Assembly? And not only permanently expelled, but saddled with a criminal charge of “insulting the sacred”.
And what would you think if you complained about your daughter’s expulsion and you were charged with making “statements against the government for your pains? [...]
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Just back from the Bahá’í Academy for the Arts, a wonderful annual week of courses and classes in a range of arts, organized by a group of Bahá’ís. This has been going on for 14 or 15 years, and has become regular fixture in the UK Baha’i community’s calendar.
Almost 300 people took part. Babies, toddlers, [...]
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Bilo’s blog, Baha’i Faith in Egypt and Iran, reports that Bahá’í children in Egypt are being turned away from school, even though Egypt’s administrative court recognized the right of Bahá’ís to have ID cards back in January.
According to this story in Daily News Egypt:
Adel Ramadan, a lawyer with the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) [...]
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Children at New Ideal Academy in the Kakori Block, north of Lucknow
What do you do if you are a parent living in a village in a country where many state-run schools are appallingly bad? Do you just accept that your child might leave school without being able to count? Or do you hope that some [...]
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