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.

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.

On June 24, 2008, U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf (VA – 10th district) introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives calling on the Egyptian Government to respect human rights and freedoms of religion and expression in Egypt.

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.

The Agence France-Presse reported today that Iran confirmed that it has arrested members of the Bahai religious community, whose faith is banned in the Islamic republic, for acting against the national interest.