Baha'is in the Media

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A selection of recent media coverage in which Baha'is are mentioned. Click on the headline to read the full article. (Note: Some newspapers require registration or payment to view articles; some links may have expired.)

On faith: Diversity tastes just like heaven
Peninsula Gateway - Gig Harbor, WA, October 8,2008
As a Baha’i, my faith makes it abundantly clear that races, ages, ethnicities, cultures and genders all make this symphony of the earth rich. ...

Iran's Abuse Of Religious Liberty
Voice of America - USA, October 3, 2008
Baha’is were not allowed to teach or practice their faith, and their religious tenets were condemned on government-controlled radio and television ...

Baha'i community a growing presence at Homewood
Johns Hopkins News-Letter - Baltimore, MD, October 3, 2008
There are an estimated eight or nine practicing Baha'is between all of the affiliated Hopkins campuses. If not for the presence of practicing Baha'is in the ...

Music key to Inspiration in the Park
Pensacola News Journal - Pensacola, FL, October 1, 2008
According to the Bahai's, "There can be no doubt whatever that the peoples of the world, of whatever race or religion derive their inspiration from one ...

'Office' Star Speaks Out on Campus for Women's Rights
Daily Colonial - Washington, DC, September 30, 2008
As a Baha'i, I feel that the rights of women, as part of social justice, is crucial." Religion plays a big role in his daily life, Wilson said. ...

Wilson backs justice organization
The George Washington University The GW Hatchet - Washington,DC, September 29, 2008
In his talk, Wilson referenced his Baha'i faith and his search for a way to give back to the world as a result of his fame. Wilson shared with the audience ...

Iranian student now calls OC his home
Olympian - Bremerton, WA, Sepetmber 29, 2008
As a member of the Bahai faith, which teaches the unity of mankind, Pouya is no stranger to persecution. Regarded as a minority, Bahais have suffered at the ...

Bahais find safe place to practice faith
Charlottesville Daily Progress - Charlottesville, VA, September 27, 2008
The practicing Bahai converted when he was just 12 years old. While his siblings were Muslims, his grandfather was a Bahai who ultimately became a martyr ...

Clergy Corner: How do the candidates stack up?
East Valley Tribune - Mesa ,AZ, September 19, 2008
I am part of five million Baha'is worldwide who hold local, national and global elections without any nominating, campaigning, speech making, ...

Iran's Death Penalty for Apostacy
Right Side News - Kennesaw, GA, September 18, 2008
Since 1979, Iranian authorities have killed more than 200 Baha'i leaders, thousands have been arrested and imprisoned, and more than 10000 have been ...

Message of peace spreading
San Angelo Standard Times - san angelo, TX, September 15, 2008
By MARY ALICE HUBBARD, Special to the Standard-Times The Baha'i Faith is the youngest of the world's independent religions. Its founder, Baha'ullah ...

We are, therefore we learn
The Olympian - Olympia, WA, September 6, 2008
Published September 06, 2008 As a Baha'i speaker and writer, I often am asked to respond to questions from conservative believers on why God would invent ...

They Hanged Her for Teaching Love
American Thinker - Bellevue, WA, August 26, 2008
Her name was Mona, a 17-year old Baha'i Character School (Sunday school) teacher. Her pupils loved the indescribably gentle loving teacher who taught them ...

Local Baha'is concerned for faithful in Iraq
IdahoStatesman.com - Idaho, August 23, 2008
Today, Parthor is the chairman of the spiritual assembly - locally elected leaders - for Boise Baha'is. But he also is concerned about spreading the word ...

Baha'i Takes Olympic Gold
By Neysn - USA, August 21, 2008
Nelson Evora, triple jump athlete and Baha’i took Olympic gold tonight! How wicked is this. The best is he openly talks about his beliefs: “The Baha’i community has helped me, supported me, and given me confidence to strive to do my ......

The Baha'i Faith in America
7thSpace Interactive (press release) - New York, NY, August 18, 2008
Topics might include: Local Baha'is embody Pew Foundation findings that 70% of Americans feel there are multiple paths to salvation. ...

Rainn Wilson: funnyman, spiritualist, 'crazy sea mammal'
Chicago Tribune - Chicago, IL August 16, 2008
"Baha'is believe that the creation of art is a form of prayer or worship just as powerful as devotion itself," he said. "So for me as a Bahai artist and ...

Baha’u’llah suffered persecution, imprisonment for the Bahai faith
Anderson Independent Mail - Anderson, SC, August 14, 2008
Baha’u’llah, the founder of the Bahai Faith, was born in 1917 in Tehran, capital of Iran. From his early childhood, he showed remarkable attributes. ...

Baha’i pilgrimage opens our eyes to global community
Peninsula Gateway - Gig Harbor, WA, August 14, 2008
The large domed structure is the Baha’i World Center, the Shrine of the Bab. As the world comes together this year for the International Olympics event, ...

Friends Forever to be given the 2008 Sarah Farmer Peace Award
Portsmouth Herald News - Portsmouth, NH, August 14, 2008
16 at 7:30 pm at the Kelsey Center on the Green Acre Baha’i School campus, Route 103, in Eliot, Maine. Featured musicians will include world musician Randy ...

Kirk takes up Baha'i fight
Wilmette Life - Glenview, IL, August 14, 2008
By KEN GOZE kgoze@pioneerlocal.com Rep. Mark Kirk, R-10th and Wilmette-area Bahá'ís are speaking out against what they say is a stepped up campaign of ...

Baha'is face discrimination, threats in Iran
The Coloradoan - Fort Collins, CO, August 13, 2008
But this story, the story of the Baha'is, won't even have the chance to be skipped over because it is not even a blip on the media radar. ...

LIGHT of UNITY THE BAHA'I FAITH TEACHES THAT ALL RELIGIONS COME ...
The Wichita Eagle - Wichita, KS, August 9, 2008
nside the Baha'i Center on North Amidon, a Baha'i Scripture is painted on a wall inside a room where followers gather each week. "So powerful is the light ...

Bahais in Valley are grateful for support
Allentown Morning Call - Allentown, PA, August 9, 2008
The Bahai Community of the Lehigh Valley is grateful to Rep. Charlie Dent and the US House of Representatives for their Aug. 1 nearly unanimous vote on ...

Ceremonial 2008: Judged the best Artist Chester Kahn named Living Treasure
Gallup Independent - Gallup, NM, August 6, 2008
For most of his adult life, he has been very active in the local Baha’i Community...

Baha'i: The Ultimate Global Religion?
Huffington Post - New York, NY, August 6, 2008
At the Baha'i Temple. I am certainly no expert - having only spent a few hours studying it thus far - but its core principles are why I say it may be the ...

Baha'i gardens named world heritage site
USA Today - USA, August 6, 2008
Baha'is believe there is one God, and great world prophets including Moses, Jesus, Buddha and Muhammad are heavenly teachers with the same basic message.

The Bahá’í Faith in Santa Barbara
The Santa Barbara Independent - Santa Barbara, CA, August 4, 2008
That is the Bahá’í Faith, which recognizes the prophets of all other religions as Messengers of God, and the beliefs of all other religions as being an ...

A Campaign of Persecution Against a Faith of Tolerance
Wall Street Journal - USA, August 1, 2008
The Bahais, dedicated to the idea that all great religions teach the same fundamental truths about an unknowable God, now number more than five million. ...

Iran's Baha'i community reports string of arson attacks targeting ...
CNN International - USA, July 29, 2008
(CNN) -- Iran's Baha'i community -- a religious minority that has faced persecution in the Islamic republic -- is reporting a string of arson attacks ...

Message of Persecution
Arlington Connection - Arlington, VA, July 24, 2008
Dr. Kavian Milani, a Fairfax resident, never saw his father again after Iranian authorities abducted him in 1980. Milani's past is similar to other Iranian refugees in Virginia who, like Milani and his father, are part of the Bahá’í religion.

HAIFA'S BAHA'I GARDENS DESIGNATED UNESCO'S 9TH WORLD HERITAGE SITE ...
TravelVideo.tv (press release) - New York, NY July 24, 2008
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee this week designated the Baha'i holy sites in Haifa and Western Galilee as an official World ...

Baha'i believers know freedom and oppression
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson, MS, July 19, 2008
"Today is the anniversary of the martyrdom of the Bab," Ghaemmaghami said about the prophet who heralded the coming of the founder of the Baha'i Faith. ...

They Hanged Her for Teaching Love
Cleveland Indy Media - Cleveland, OH, July 15, 2008
Her name was Mona, a 17-year old Baha’i Character School (Sunday school) teacher. Her pupils loved the indescribably gentle loving teacher who taught them ...

Early NU grad skips freshman year to learn life with sister
The Union of Grass Valley - Grass Valley, CA, July 14, 2008
The young Platners parents, Paul Platner and Leslie Platner have gone on similar trips as part of the family's Bahai Faith. The parents served in Africa as ...

Bahais a target in Iran
Washington Times - Washington, DC, July 10, 2008
When I asked why she had left, "We're Bahais," she responded. When it comes to the persecution of faith, two groups - the Falun Gong in China and the Bahai ...

Event in US honors founder of Bahai Faith
South Bend Tribune - South Bend, IN, July 9, 2008
By JOHN CHADWICK HACKENSACK, NJ — When one of the founding fathers of the Bahai Faith spoke in 1912 to followers in northern New Jersey, he declared that ...

Baha'i followers know persecution is alive and well
Statesman Journal - Salem, OR, July 5, 2008
As a follower of the minority Baha'i Faith, Amir Badiei of Salem recalls the pain of growing up in mostly Muslim Iran. "There were killings and lootings, ...

Baha'i Faith: Religion centered on unity, equality
Savannah Morning News - Savannah, GA, July 5, 2008
Savannah members of the Baha'i Faith use dolls to teach children that humanity is one and that people of all races, nations, economic classes and religious ...

Persecuted for her faith, woman 'never became bitter'
The Huntsville Times - al.com - Huntsville, AL, July 5, 2008
Baha'is believe that men and women deserve equal respect and that all faiths fit into a developing understanding of the essential unity to be found in God. ...

Unity feast will honor Baha's 1912 visit
Ventura County Star - Camarillo, CA, June 28, 2008
By John Chadwick, McClatchy-Tribune Information Services HACKENSACK, NJ — When one of the founding fathers of the Bahai religion spoke in 1912 to followers ...

Bahais detained in Iran contact families
CNN - USA, June 19, 2008
(CNN) -- Seven Bahai leaders detained by Iranian authorities have contacted their families for the first time since their arrest more than a month ago, ...

Then They Came for the Bahai
Forward - New York, NY, June 19, 2008
There was also a Bahai family, the Alavis, next door. By then, I had already intuited that my relatives, in the presence of Muslim friends and neighbors, ...

Haslip, 23, heads to Israel
St. Helena Star - St. Helena, CA, June 19, 2008
As a volunteer with the Baha’i community, the 23-year-old will help manage the Baha’i World Centre, the spiritual and administrative heart of the ...

East Bay faithful condemn arrests of Bahais in Iran
Contra Costa Times - Walnut Creek, CA, June 11, 2008
The arrests of six Bahai leaders in their homes May 14 followed the detention of another in March. Those who are old enough to remember said the sweeps ...

Baha’i faith picnic celebrates diversity in community
Gainesville Times - Gainesville, GA, June 8, 2008
By Jessica Jordan Red and yellow, black and white were all welcomed to the Race Unity Day picnic at Wilshire Trails Park by the Baha’i faith of Hall County. ...

Why Islamists Persecute the Baha'is
American Thinker - Bellevue, WA, June 8, 2008
This clash of beliefs, the old versus the new, is the reason for Islamists to unleash their power against the upstart iconoclastic Baha'i faith. ...

Treatment of Bahais: A Test of Human Rights in Iran
Washington Institute for Near East Policy - Washington, DC, June 4, 2008
By Mehdi Khalaji On May 14, the Iranian government arrested six prominent Bahai leaders and accused them of "endangering national security. ...

Baha’i Arrests Show Loss of Basic Religious Freedoms and Human ...
The Cutting Edge - Washington,DC, June 2, 2008
Seven Baha’i leaders recently arrested in Iran are members of an informal Baha’i national coordinating group established to help meet the needs of Iran’s ...

East Bay faithful condemn arrests of Bahais in Iran
Contra Costa Times - Walnut Creek, CA, June 2, 2008
With the lighting of candles and a Persian prayer, Bahais and interfaith supporters gathered Friday evening to voice alarm about the recent arrest of seven ...

Strength of faith battles tyranny
Tampabay.com - St. Petersburg, FL, May 27, 2008
The revolution marked the start of oppression of Baha'is in recent times, Azizi said. Many were arrested and their property and bank accounts seized, ...

Iran Arrests National Baha’i Leaders in Dawn Raids
The Cutting Edge - Washington, DC, May 26, 2008
In dawn raids that dragged on for hours, Intelligence Ministry officers arrested six of the seven members of Iran’s national Baha’i leadership, ...

Baha'i faith faces difficult times
The Desert Sun - Palm Springs, CA, May 24, 2008
Clearly, this is the case with the Baha'is of Iran, who constitute the largest religious minority (300000) in a country whose secret government memorandum ...

Iran 'plans to destroy Baha'i community'
CNN - New York, New York, May 22, 2008
NEW YORK (CNN) -- A top Baha'i official has criticized Iran's claim that the six imprisoned leaders of the religious minority were held for security reasons ...

World Leaders Should Press Iran to Free Baha'i Religious Prisoners
Anti-Defamation League (press release) - New York, NY, May 20, 2008
Reacting to the ongoing imprisonment of seven national leaders of the Baha'i religious community in Iran, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) called on "world ...

Iran's arrest of Baha'is condemned
CNN.com/World - May 16, 2008
Six Baha'i leaders in Iran were seized and imprisoned this week, the religious group said. The act prompted condemnation and concern from the movement and a top American religious freedom panel.

IRAN: Baha'is rounded up
LA Times.com Babylon and Beyond Blog - May 15, 2008
Human rights advocates have decried the apparent arrests this week of six leaders of Iran's embattled Bahai community.

Greene finds temple visit 'uplifting'
Major League Baseball - MLB.com - May 14, 2008
Chicago - Shortstop, member of Baha'i faith, homers later that day. Khalil Greene hasn't found his comfort zone at the plate this season, but maybe a little divine intervention was all he needed...

'Lost' Dueling Analysis: Cabin Fever
Washington Post - Wasington, DC - May 9, 2008
It's a text of the Baha'i faith -- and I could swear Baha'i has surfaced on "Lost" before, though I can't recall where just now. ...

Faith & Action: Study Circles
Casa Grande Valley Newspapers - Casa Grande, AZ, May 9, 2008
By JOYCE FULLER KLEIKAMP, Baha'i Community of Pinal County But, here it was. A unique curriculum, the Ruhi Institute, initially developed in Columbia and ...

City united by desire to believe
Daily Herald - Provo, UT, May 2, 2008
Heern grew up in the largest minority faith in Iran, Baha'i. The Baha'i were among the first people to be attacked in the 1979 revolution, and Heern was ...

Guest Commentary: Bahais need relief from Iran persecution
Bonitanews - Naples, FL, April 26, 2008
For a world religion that believes in the oneness of mankind and upholds unity in diversity, the Bahai Faith has historically been under persecution since ...

The purpose of religion
Anderson Independent Mail - Anderson,SC, April 25, 2008
Through the centuries, with the exception of the Bahai Faith, each of these belief systems became divided into numerous sects or denominations. ...

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