Now that the story of Dhabihullah Mahrami has been picked up all over the world, Amnesty International has called for an inquiry into his death:
Amnesty International has written to the head of Iran’s Judiciary to express concern at continuing abuses committed against the country’s Baha’i community and to urge him to ensure that no-one […]
Cumbersome headline aside, the more that people pay attention to what’s happening to the Baha’is in Iran the better. You may have already seen this on BWNS, but the story was just picked up by Reuters:
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - An Iranian of the Bahai faith has died in his jail cell of unknown causes, 10 […]
This National Review article is about the perils of the Christian communities in Iran, but it also discusses some of the other faiths that have been persecuted there by the government, including Jews, Sunni Muslims, and the Bahá’ís.
Iranian members of the Bahai faith, which began in the 1840s as a reformist movement within Shia islam, […]
Here’s an article about the Faith in Le Monde. I really don’t read French, but I believe the headline is “free the Baha’i students” and the article seems to deal with the situation of the Baha’is in Iran.
En Iran, les membres de cette importante minorité religieuse sont interdits d’université. Quinze intellectuels et scientifiques de […]
I’ve recently discovered a few Bahá’í podcasts that those of you who are interested in that sort of thing might want to know about.
Bahá’í community.org
Bahá’í Perspectives
Beautiful World
Ask a Bahá’í
[…]
Here’s a site created by a Bahá’í in the Netherlands called Bahá’í Thinking that presents an his personal overview of nine topics that he was often questioned about in relation to the Bahá’í Faith.
Bahá’í Thinking is my personal response to nine questions which were often posed to me: Bahá’í? - Utopia? - Religion? - God? […]
Baha'i Blog is currently in travel mode.
I'm taking a bit of a sabbatical for the next few months and I'll be doing a whack of traveling, visiting a bunch of different countries to check out the scene and do a little photo-ing. And I'll be blogging as much of it as I can.
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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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