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Praying for the safety of Baha’is in Iran

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

Khosrow FarahbakhshWhile the recent story about coloured badges for religious minorities may not have been entirely true, a story that ran last week in Canada’s The Record reminds us that Iran’s religious minorites are still facing heavy persecution. The piece tells how Khosrow Farahbakhsh, a Baha’i now living in Canada, fled Iran in 1983 to escape a country where he couldn’t get an education and where the authorities were killing Baha’is:

Only two months before he hatched his plan to flee, 10 women from his hometown of Shiraz were hanged for teaching the equivalent of Sunday school and refusing to renounce their faith. Like Farahbakhsh and his family, the women were followers of Baha’i, a 163-year-old faith that was under attack by Iranian clergy and government.

Since Iran’s Islamic revolution in 1979, more than 200 Baha’is there have been killed.

And now, according to United Nations observers, persecution of Iran’s Baha’is is on the rise again, driven by a hard-line Islamic government. In a country where the top Muslim clerics exercise ultimate political power, religion and government are closely linked.

So Farahbakhsh, 42, plans to tell his story to students in Guelph schools. He’s part of a group of Baha’is at the university who are holding lectures, writing letters and hosting prayer vigils to draw attention to the Baha’i plight.

Happy Declaration of the Báb

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

Rainn Wilson: Baha’i in The Office

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

Update: Story of Iran’s Coloured Badges is False

Sunday, May 21st, 2006

Iran to force religious minorities to wear coloured badges

Friday, May 19th, 2006

Egypt Update: Court suspends ruling recognising Baha’i rights

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

More from Egypt

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

Egypt Update: Things Aren’t Getting Any Better for the Baha’is

Monday, May 15th, 2006

Vatican Astronomer Says Science and Religion Must Agree

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

Hindustan Times: “Baha’i needs support”

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

Baha’i Summer Schools 2006

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

Students share experiences of studying in Iran

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

Egypt to appeal ruling in favor of Baha’is

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006

Baha’i Faith is hip with the kids.

Friday, April 28th, 2006

Iranian Diaspora on the BBC

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

More attention on the situation of the Bahai’s in Iran

Friday, April 21st, 2006

Quilt spreads message about the ‘Power of Unity’

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

Further updates of coverage of Bahá’ís in Iran

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

Devotional meetings are everywhere

Tuesday, April 11th, 2006

Egypt update: Court ruling recognizes Bahá’í rights

Friday, April 7th, 2006

update (this time from India): U.N. concern over treatment of Bahá’ís in Iran

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

Anti-Defamation League speaks out in defence of the Bahá’ís in Iran

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

University newspapers on Bahá’ís in Iran

Friday, March 31st, 2006

New site highlighting denial of education to Bahá’ís in Iran

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Iran wants UN to probe “rights abuses” in U.S.

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
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