Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
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Iran Bahais face espionage trial
It is not clear how long the trial of the seven Bahais will last
Seven members of the Bahai faith in Iran are to go on trial on Tuesday on charges of spying for Israel and of “insulting sanctities”.
Six of the Bahais were arrested in May, 2008. The other one was arrested [...]
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Regular readers will recall that I cried “shame” in this post at the “dialogue” dinner that some of the churches were holding for Iran’s President Ahmadinejad in New York. I wondered how these church leaders thought it appropriate to “dialogue” with the persecutor of all kinds of minorities in Iran – including the largest non-Muslim [...]
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Consider this. You’re standing at the end of a street of more than a hundred houses. It looks like it’s going to rain – in fact, you just felt a few drops on your head. There’s a noisy gang of lads working on a white van in front of a house on the other side [...]
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I’m struggling to digest this morning’s experiences at the International Baha’i Convention in Haifa.
We started with the reading of the Ridvan message to the Baha’is of the world from the Universal House of Justice. This is one of the
most powerful and direct messages I’ve heard. Of all the things that struck me, one was this:
Only [...]
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