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A Bahá’í Perspective is a radio program of biographical interviews of people who have chosen the Bahá’í Faith as a way of life or who have a relationship with the Bahá’í Faith.
This video was created by the Bahá’ís of Hungary to express their solidarity for their bretheren in Iran the cradle of the Bahá’í faith where persecution and descrimination are, sadly, an inescapable reality.
The 31 year old Roxana Saberi, a freelance reporter for news outlets such as the BBC and National Public Radio and the 1997 Miss North Dakota was arrested in Tehran in early February.
By Parvaneh Farid: “Two days ago another Baha’i cemetary was desecrated by ignorant men in Iran, they also scribbled some graphiti: “Down to Bahá’ís, down to Ruhi courses!” To those men who are so full of fear that they cannot even see the grave of a Bahá’í, I reach out my hand and ask…”
Thanks to John McGill for sending me this video of an interview with Shirin Ebadi. In it she tells of how she has been treated in the wake of receiving her Nobel Peace Prize and on the eve of the trial of the 7 Bahá’ís accused of espionage for Israel, whom she is representing. Shirin [...]
The center of their faith lies in Israel. It is a twist of fate orchestrated by the Persian authorities and the Ottoman empire in the mid-1800′s that has now become the basis for a case of espionage against 7 men and women arrested more than 8 months ago.