Author: Staff Writer

Source: Bahá’í World News Service

http://news.bahai.org/story/724

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown met this week with members of the U.K. Baha'i community and underlined his government's concern over the seven Baha'i leaders being detained in Iran.

Mr. Lembit Opik, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Friends of the Baha'is group, accompanied three Baha'i representatives to the meeting, held yesterday at the prime minister's...

Author: David Yonke

Source: The Toledo Blade

http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090711/NEWS10/907110347/-1/NEWS13

With quiet prayers, readings, and music in an open-air park shelter, about 30 local Baha'is observed the 159th anniversary of the martyrdom of their prophet the Bab on Thursday.

Participants also received an update on the fate of seven Baha'i leaders imprisoned in Iran and...

Author: Susan Carroll

Source: The Houston Chronicle

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6522338.html

On Saturday, as his brother is scheduled to stand trial in Iran on charges that could result in the death penalty, 65-year-old Kamal Khanjani and other members of the Baha’i faith will gather for a prayer service in Missouri City.

Khanjani’s older brother, Jamaloddin Khanjani, is one of seven Baha’i...

Author: Brent Ainsworth

Source: Contra Costa Times

http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_12811998

Out of the estimated 150 Marin County residents who are active in local Baha'i faith groups, about one-third are of Persian descent. The political unrest and violence going on in Iran has them quaking.

On Saturday night, local Baha'is will congregate in Belvedere with members of other faiths for a prayer service for human rights and religious...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Yahoo News

Wire Service: AP

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090709/ap_on_go_ot/us_us_iran_baha_i

A U.S. government agency is demanding that Iran release seven Baha'i prisoners rather than submit them to trials on charges of spying for Israel and religious charges.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom is responding to a plea from Roxana Saberi, an...

Author: Alicia Gallegos

Source: South Bend Tribune

http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090704/News01/907040336/1011/News

Like any great story about the struggle against adversity and fight to find freedom, Masoud and Shahnaz's journey begins the day they fell in love.

At the time, the Iranian couple knew only that they wanted to marry, even with risk of strict punishment...

Author: Stephanie Bertholdo

Source: The Acorn Online

http://www.toacorn.com/news/2009/0702/faith/058.html

The imprisonment of seven members of the Bahai Faith in Iran has not been forgotten by local Bahais.

Followers of the religion who live in Westlake Village, Agoura Hills, Thousand Oaks and Calabasas met on June 25 at Westlake Village City Hall to mark the one-year anniversary of the imprisonment of Fariba Kamalabadi, Jamaloddin...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Bahá’í World News Service

http://news.bahai.org/story/721

The European Baha’i House of Worship – the most prominent landmark in a wide area around Langenhain – was the site of events this month celebrating the 700-year anniversary of the village.

The mayor of Hofheim, of which Langenhain is a part, and more than 300 townspeople gathered at the temple where a choir from Langenhain sang Christian psalms,...

Author: Samuel G. Freedman

Source: The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/us/27religion.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail1=y

Sometimes during the past two weeks, making her rounds as a hospital resident, Dr. Saughar Samali has caught a glimpse of television news in a patient’s room or heard a bulletin on the radio in the family-practice office. Against her desire, against her better judgment, she has been plunged...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Bahá’í World News Service

http://news.bahai.org/story/719

According to information conveyed by the authorities in Evin prison to the family members of the seven Baha'is who have been imprisoned in Tehran, Iran, for over a year, their trial date has been set for 11 July 2009. This information has been provided to the family members only orally and, as information conveyed by officials concerning the judicial process has often proved...

Author: Alan Hamari

Source: Brookfield NOW

http://www.brookfieldnow.com/news/48920652.html

Hot tea and warm smiles greet the visitors to Robert Malouf and Manijeh Khorshidi's Brookfield home on a muggy Friday evening.

The friends come from all over - New Berlin, Delafield, Sussex - and their faces light up when they are welcomed with a handshake and a hug.

As the roughly dozen or so people find places to sit on couches and folding...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Nelson Mail

http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/2520254/Plenty-of-prayers-for-Baha-i-relatives

Twelve hours of interrogation, 19 days of solitary confinement and almost three years in an Iranian prison.

That was Iranian Foad Naeemi's punishment for teaching the Baha'i Faith, which is viewed as heresy by Iran's religious authorities.

Mr Naeemi is the nephew of...

Author: Jane McCarthy

Source: KING 5 News

http://www.nwcn.com/statenews/washington/stories/NW_061809WAB-bahai-iran-protests-LJ.11d3ff7.html

Iran is bracing for another day of mass protests in defiance of the country's leader. The clashes are in response to a disputed presidential election after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was re-elected.

Many people in Western Washington with ties to Iran and are...

Author: Josie Kerk

Source: Rapid City Journal

http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2009/06/15/news/local/doc4a35dce555f2a092204330.txt

Black Hills members of the Baha'i faith, a community of more than 5 million internationally, sponsored a potluck at Canyon Lake Park on Sunday to "recognize the principle of human oneness" for Race Unity Day.

"I really think people are searching for something with...