Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
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Tendayi Chingeye, a delegate from Zimbabwe.
A great new story on Bahá’í World News Service starts like this:
Experiencing the diversity of the human family can be humbling, as Bahá’ís attending their recent international convention learned.
Gregory C Dahl, a delegate from Bulgaria and former International Monetary Fund staffer thought it was the most diverse gathering of people [...]
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Reviving the world – regenerating its peoples
Bahá’u’lláh says this:
The Day Star of Truth that shineth in its meridian splendor beareth Us witness! They who are the people of God have no ambition except to revive the world, to ennoble its life, and regenerate its peoples. Truthfulness and good-will have, at all times, marked their relations [...]
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This is the official photograph of the Tenth International Bahá’í Convention, 26th April to 3rd May 2008.
I’m in there somewhere!
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The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the UK near the Shrine of the Báb
The spot in the Most Great Prison where the Purest Branch, Mirza Mihdi, lay dying after falling through a skylight above.
Now that I am home, I am beginning to upload my pictures from the Tenth International Bahá’í Convention to Flickr. [...]
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I’m on my way home from International Baha’i Convention. I will blog some more reflections on the Convention (with some photos) in the next day or two.
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Throughout International Convention, we have heard from delegates from every continent, from countries poor and rich. Any delegate who wishes to speak lines up at one of the microphones and takes his or her turn to speak to the theme of the consultation session or to say whatever is on their heart. One older lady, [...]
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This morning, a thousand delegates from some 150 countries to the International Baha’i Convention in Haifa, Israel, stood in silence as sirens sounded outside the Convention Centre to honour Holocaust Memorial Day. After this powerfully solemn and moving period, a delegate from Benin, who had been speaking when the sirens sounded, ended his contribution with [...]
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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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