A systematic campaign of attacks orchestrated by the Iranian authorities on the Baha’is of the city of Semnan has alarmed Australian relatives of the victims.
Eminent members of South Australia’s legal profession and academic community addressed a capacity audience at an event in Adelaide on 11 August that drew attention to the denial of tertiary education to Baha’is in Iran.
An Australian Baha’i who has lived in the Solomon Islands since 1968 has been awarded a knighthood for his outstanding service to business and to public and community development in that country.
Indigenous speakers addressed a reception following a National Reconciliation Week service at the Baha’i Temple in Sydney on 27 May.
Australia and the international community must do everything to pressure Iran to allow members of the Baha’i Faith in Iran to practice their faith free of persecution, the Federal Member for Kooyong, Josh Frydenberg MP, told the Australian House of Representatives today.
Baha’is from throughout Australia have elected the members of the Faith’s national governing body at the annual convention in Sydney.
A documentary portraying the creative efforts of Iran’s biggest religious minority to educate its youth following their banning from public universities will have its Australian premiere in Sydney on 19 April.
Sydney icons are providing spectacular backdrops for an ongoing global campaign to free seven Baha’i leaders unjustly jailed in Iran.
Sydney will be one of 12 cities featured in a global campaign on Sunday, April 1 to mark 10,000 days that seven innocent leaders of the Baha’i religion have collectively spent behind bars in Iran.
A Baha’i inspired music and cultural performance group from the Pacific Islands, MANA, will perform at the Baha’i Centre in Canberra during celebrations to mark the Baha’i New Year holy day which occurs on 21 March.