At the Washington Post’s On Faith, Remz Pokorny, a senior at Brandeis University, chronicles his decision to stick with the religion he was reared in by two very different parents.
An Iranian inspector who examined the 2006 arrests of a group of young Baha’is in Shiraz, Iran, filed a confidential report dated June 2008 confirming what Baha’is have said all along: that their activities were strictly humanitarian in nature and did not involve the “illegal” teaching of the Baha’i Faith.
Philippe Copeland at Baha'i Thought wonders at the senseless decimation of trees in a Baha'i cemetery in Iran.
NEW YORK (BWNS) — As the new academic year got under way, young Baha'is in Iran again found the door to higher education closed.
The U.S. Department of State's 2008 International Religious Freedom Report, released on Sept. 19, calls attention to the grave persecution faced by Baha'is in Iran, as well as the discrimination against Baha'is in Egypt
Three Baha’is currently imprisoned in Yemen are facing the possibility of imminent deportation to Iran
The Baha’i International Community categorically rejects statements reported in the Resalat daily, an Iranian newspaper, that seven Baha’i leaders who have been imprisoned in Iran since May have confessed to setting up an illegal organization with ties to Israel to undermine Iranian national security.
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a resolution condemning the persecution of the Baha’is in Iran.
Six Nobel Peace Prize laureates have issued a statement calling on the Iranian government to immediately free seven prominent Iranian Baha’is imprisoned in Tehran.
This week marks the 25th anniversary of the day 10 Bahá'í women were hanged in Shiraz, Iran, for teaching religious classes to Bahá'í youth -- the equivalent of being Sunday School teachers in the West.