Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
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After a wonderful week at the Baha’i World Centre, I shall be returning from a warm (if somewhat humid) Haifa to a much cooler London tomorrow. Then it will be back to the old routine and some time to write a blog post or two.
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In the 19th and early 20th centuries people travelled on foot for months or by train and steamer for days to get to Akka or Haifa to visit the Baha’i World Centre. It took me around 14 hours travel all told from the UK. It would have been rather quicker, had the flight from London [...]
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I shall be trying Heathrow’s new Terminal 5 for the first time today as I pass through on my way to foreign parts.
I’m not sure of my schedule while I’m away, but I may not be able to blog. I know I’ve been a bit erratic recently (so what’s new?), but a week of quiet [...]
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As reported yesterday, UNESCO have inscribed a number of Bahá’í Holy Places in Israel on the World Heritage Site list.
UNESCO’s website has reported this:
The Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and Western Galilee (Israel) are inscribed for the testimony they provide to the Bahá’i’s strong tradition of pilgrimage and for their profound meaning for the faith. [...]
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Brian Kurzius has sent me the link to his photos of the light display behind the Shrine of the Báb on Mt Carmel to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel. They are great photos, taken from Brian and Christine’s apartment in Haifa.
And Brian has put an animation of the light show on [...]
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It’s not every day that one can see the Shrine of the Báb like this. These blue lights sweeping over Mount Carmel were there to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the State of Israel.
According to this story on Arlington Baha’i, normal lighting of the Shrine was reduced for the occasion.
I’m afraid I [...]
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So, this amazing Convention is in motion.
Having had a couple of days to pray in the Holy Shrines and visit some of the Holy Places, we are in the Haifa Convention Centre for the first day of the Convention iself. Around a thousand delegates from all over the world are casting their ballots in person. [...]
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This where I shall be for the next week, for the 10th International Baha’i Convention.
I’m not taking my laptop and I’m quite unlikely to have time to find a cybercafe and to post here while I’m away. I look forward to getting back to writing in early May. See you then!
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Happy Ridván to everyone!
Ridván is the king of Bahá’í festivals, celebrating Bahá’u’lláh’s declaration of His mission in the Najibiyyih Garden across the Tigris from Baghdad.
Like local Bahá’í communities across the world, our community in the Hertfordshire town of Welwyn elected its Local Spiritual Assembly, its local governing council. We even managed to elect our Local [...]
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Rainbow over the Shrine of the Báb and the International Teaching Centre
My recent trip to the Baha’i World Centre in Haifa in Israel coincided with the twin anniversaries of the Birthday of the Bab and the Birthday of Baha’u’llah, as celebrated in the lunar calendar.
Most Baha’i communities celebrate these birthdays according to the solar calendar [...]
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