A UN report released yesterday says that Iran is still harrassing ethnic and religious minorities (Baha’is), denying them basic amenities and confiscating their land:
[U.N. special rapporteur on adequate housing, Miloon Kothari] said there were also reports of the state confiscating land from the Bahai religious minority.
Bahais, whose religion was founded in 19th century Iran, […]
Nice little piece in The Salt Lake Tribune yesterday about one man’s somewhat scientific search for spiritual answers and his eventual discovery of the Baha’i Faith. Interesting to see this kind of thing in a newspaper…
Link
The ever slick and glossy One Mag has just opened its little corner store, to feed all of your One Mag cravings. Sadly, Bahaiblog has not yet opened its own one-stop-online-shop, so for the time being you’ll just have to write “bahaiblog” across your own white hoodies with a sharpie marker… and then send me […]
So here are a couple of stories about communities getting big, shiney, new Baha’i centres. Now, new Baha’i centres usually aren’t all that newsworthy, but then again, who am I to argue with The Washington Post? (free registration may be required)
The three-story cylindrical structure will be located along Route 7 in Sterling and was designed […]
The sajjadah 1426 (it’s year 1426 in the Muslim calender) is a prayer rug that, thanks to a little compass and a whole lotta high techmonolology, glows when turned towards Mecca.
Ok, so some enterprising young Baha’i geeks need to get on the Bahji-directional one of these toute-suite. My credit card is standing by.
Link (view Gizmodo)
I know we’ve done this story already, but BWNS just did a story about it and then the solomon star followed with a story on the BWNS story. So I figure hey, why not post about a news story about a news story that we scooped in the first place? If that’s not what blogs […]
This all sounds a bit shady in an Indiana Jones villain kind of way, but it seems that there is an organization (I oh so badly want to write “secret brotherhood”) that has collected materials (mostly water and soil it seems) from many holy and religious sites from around the world and has finally put […]
I’m back from Uganda, so posting should be back to normal (whatever that means). I was going to throw up a little post about the House of Worship in Kampala, but my photos aren’t back yet and I can’t tell you much more than you can find out from the link. But it sure is […]
So when I started this blog, I set up a running search on technorati to let me know whenever people mentioned anything about the Baha’i Faith in their blogs. Both so that I could poach great ideas from other blogs and also so I could pass on all of the bloggity goodness to you. […]
Ok, so it’s Race Unity Day time of year and these still seem to be trickling in on the old google search, but I might as well throw a bunch of these up for your consumption. So have a lookhere, here, here, here, here, here, here, here,
oh and this is a great one. So […]
So I had this really great plan for when I took off to Uganda for a few weeks so that you wouldn’t even know I was gone. Unfortunately, I left all of my login info on my desk and have only now figured out how to get in and access all of my pre-made posts […]
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A sweet, sweet voice that's been wooing souls in Vancouver for a while now. Check for upcoming shows her myspace page or just head over to download some tracks. You won't be sorry.
While he's been profiled here already, Ferraby Lionheart certainly deserves all the praise that this meager blog can heap upon him as he's released an absolute gem of an album with his 'self-titled EP'.
Seattle hip-hop duo Common Market have been covered in this blog already but they definitely deserve a place in the sidebar. From a review in Seattle's The Stranger:
You could say the duo connected through a higher power. "We're both Baha'i; that's how I heard of Sabzi in the first place," explains Scion. "So being involved with the Baha'i community and doing music, people kept asking me, 'Do you know Saba?'" "Yeah, people would just be like, there's another Baha'i in town that 'does hiphop,'" Sabzi laughs. Once connected, Sabzi spun records at the release party for RA's debut EP Apostrophe—and the pair found that musically, they were on the same page.
You can find their music well, pretty much everywhere. Instant gratification types (such as myself) can get theirs from the itunes music store.
Whether singing a classic by the Supremes or exploring the limits of hip-hop, Zahyia Rolle, known as ZZ Rolle by her peers, is a performer who defies labels and defines the world "artist." Rapper, songwriter, actress, dancer, choreographer, producer - Zahyia only recognizes boundaries and limits long enough to cross them.
She was also a contributer to Boston Praise Collective's award winning album "From Exile to Exhaltation - Our Offering to Baha'u'llah" (also available on itunes). So drop by her website, download some tracks, and enjoy.
An invigorating blend of various Polynesian dances, rhythms and sounds fused with pop, MANA is a Baha'i music and cultural performance group based in Sydney, Australia. The members of MANA are predominately youth, most of them still attending high school, and though they are all residents of Sydney, their roots are traced back to Samoa, Tonga and the Cook Islands.
To date, MANA has released 2 albums: Reflections on the Life of the Spirit and Arising To Serve. All lyrics have been taken from the Baha'i Writings found in the sequence of courses known as Ruhi Books, developed by the Ruhi Institute. There is currently a total of seven books in the sequence.
A few Baha'is in LA, USA are involved in this little musical effort.
In a music scene severly overburdened with manufactured screamo and whiney pop-punk, LA's Telecast is a glowing gem of ulterior hope. Remember the days when songs had meaning beyond some basic cloying variation of "I hate you, Dad," or "Nobody understands me and my skateboard?" So does Telecast.- From Filter Magazine
The Baha'is Magazine
A new version of a glossy 80-page magazine profiling the Baha'i Faith and its worldwide community has just been published. It features sections on Baha'u'llah, the spiritual and moral teachings of the Baha'i Faith, the Faith's history and administration, and its programs of social and economic development. It also has profiles of individual Baha'is and examples of community activities.
It can be ordered through the Baha'i Distribution Service in the United States.
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