Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
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According to PR-inside.com, the Head of Iran’s Supreme Administrative Court has accused members of the Baha’i community in Iran of sharing information about Iran with Israel.
A state TV report Sunday quoted prosecutor Qorban-Ali Dorri-Najafabadi as saying evidence suggests the community as a whole has shared information with Israel and other enemies.
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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.
Technorati Tags: Baha’i, Bahai, World Centre, Haifa, [...]
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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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The Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has today added two Bahá’í shrines to the list of World Heritage sites. The resting places of the twin Founders of the Bahá’í Faith – the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh – are the first sites connected with a modern religious tradition to [...]
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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.
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Delegates from many nations to the International Bahá’í Convention went in groups to visit the prison cell that Bahá’u’lláh occupied in the barracks in Akka for two years, two months and five days from 31 August 1868. We crowded into the cell and sat in silence on the floor, on chairs and on the ledge [...]
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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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