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BWNS: In This Bicentenary Year, Remembering the Birth of a New Faith
May 22, 2019, in Audio > Podcasts, by Sonjel VreelandThis podcast episode produced by the Baha’i World News Service explores how the heroism and sacrifice set in motion by the Bab’s Declaration relates to the world today: “Though separated from our own time by two centuries, the society in which the Bab appeared resembles the present day world for the sense of oppression and for the longing of so many to find answers to slake the soul’s thirst to know,” the Universal House of Justice wrote in its Ridvan 2018 message.
You can read the accompanying article here on the Baha’i World News Service.
For more podcasts created by the Baha’i World News Service, visit their website: www.news.bahai.org
If you enjoyed this podcast, you might also like the Baha’i Blogcast with Rainn Wilson. You can listen to them here on Baha’i Blog.
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Sonjel Vreeland
In her innermost heart, Sonjel is a stay-at-home parent and a bookworm with a maxed out library card but professionally she is a museologist with a background in English Literature. She currently lives on Prince Edward Island, an isle in the shape of a smile on the eastern Canadian coast. Sonjel is a writer who loves to listen to jazz when she's driving at night.
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