Author: Eric Shackleton

Source: The Canadian Press

Author: Staff Writer

Source: PR-inside.com

Wire Service: AP

http://www.pr-inside.com/iran-s-small-zoroastrian-community-remembers-r157007.htm

CHAK CHAK, Iran (AP) - Dressed in white to symbolize purity, a priest recited from the Zoroastrian holy book at a shrine as members of this ancient pre-Islamic religion marked what they see as one of the most bitter events in Iran's history: the 7th...

Author: Ramola Talwar Badam

Source: The Columbus Dispatch

Wire Service: AP

http://www.columbusdispatch.com/dispatch/content/national_world/stories/2007/06/12/zoroastrian.html

MUMBAI, India—Some might see the towering billboards that rise out of a centuries-old Mumbai funeral ground as a message from beyond the grave.

But the signs — which exhort...

Author: Bachi Karkaria

Source: International Herald Tribune

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/05/11/opinion/edparsi.php

MUMBAI: As an Indian Parsi Zoroastrian, I'm proud to belong to a tiny minority widely admired for its material success and its philanthropy.

But I feel a closing sense of siege. The vicissitudes of modern life are threatening our group's ethnic identity and ancient ways.

The vulture, our main accomplice in...

Source: The Times of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Bringing_up_the_mediums/rssarticleshow/2007701.cms

Parents make the heartbreaking decision to send their children to residential schools for various material reasons. It's seldom for a cause. But last year, parents of 30 Parsi children decided that the cause of serving the community was worthy enough. So they packed them off, some of them only about six years old, to the Athornan...

Author: Neha Singh Gohil

Source: Hamilton Spectator

Author: Rana Rosen

Source: Beliefnet

Wire Service: RNS

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/214/story_21491_1.html

As a high school boy in Minnesota, Joseph Peterson spent the late 1960s reading at the local library, passing over Mad Magazine or sci-fi novels in favor of ancient religious texts.

The scripture of the Zoroastrians -- the faith of the old Persian Empire -- captured the Christian teenager with its...

Author: Marc Lalonde

Source: The Chronicle

http://www.westislandchronicle.com/v4/article-89130-Norouz-celebration-in-Pierrefonds.html

A community organization devoted to helping Iranian-Canadians integrate into Canadian society and hang on to their Iranian culture celebrated the Iranian New Year and the coming of spring Saturday night at the Marcel Morin Community Centre in Pierrefonds.

The...

Author: Carrie Loewenthal

Source: Pavyand

http://www.payvand.com/news/07/mar/1361.html

New York -- A vibrant and spirited crowd celebrated Nowrouz, the Persian New Year, at the fourth annual Persian Parade in New York City as men and women in colorful clothing danced to traditional music and cheerfully promenaded down Madison Avenue.

On March 25, Persians and non-Persians, New Yorkers and tourists, lined 15 city blocks to watch California ballet...

Author: RUTH MARVIN WEBSTER

Source: North County Times

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/03/30/faith/11_70_163_29_07.txt

Mehlli Bhagalia and his wife, Perin, tend a small flame in their home in Carlsbad. Bhagalia said the flame, safe in the fireplace, has been consecrated by the couple's prayers and is only extinguished when the couple go away. Just as the cross and the star of David are symbols of Christianity and Judaism, the...

Author: Jean Torkelson

Source: Rocky Mountain News

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5395627,00.html

What do you do when your young people want to marry and your old people come to die, but the nearest priest available to mark such milestones lives thousands of miles away?

For Coloradans who practice Zoroastrianism, one of the world's oldest and most fragile religions, the...

Author: Vasundhara Sanger

Source: The Times of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Recreating_Persian_empire/articleshow/1623862.cms

MUMBAI: As a prelude to eight-day Persian festival in Mumbai, the grandeur of the Persian empire is being re-awakened by the city architect Jimmy Mistry in the heart of the metropolis. It intends to reintroduce present generation Parsis and the general people to the rich cultural...

Author: Sandip Roy

Source: New American Media

http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=645ddebf5e4c7f6712f75261ca0766e8

Deepa Mehta’s film Water has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. It’s the third in a trilogy following Fire and Earth. It looks at a colony of widows set in a sacred city whose lives are upturned by a new widow, a child, in...

Author: Rich Barlow

Source: The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/01/06/ancient_religion_may_face_extinction/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+--+City%2FRegion+News

As screaming children raced around the hall in joyous play, adult workers readied food in the kitchen, while others set up chairs and tables. The holiday dinner of...

Source: National Council of Resistance of Iran

http://www.ncr-iran.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2528&Itemid=70

During a meeting at the United States Congress, 500 Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian religious leaders from 40 states announced their support for the right to political asylum in Iraq of the members of the People’s Mojahedin of Iran, the main opposition group to the Tehran regime. This meeting was part of a three-...