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A recent surge in the number of arrests and detainments of Baha’is in Iran is a disturbing trend, a spokesperson for the Australian Baha’i Community, Natalie Mobini, said today.
Revolutionary Guards in Iran have disinterred the remains of up to 50 deceased Baha’is and placed them in an open canal to make way for a building project in the city of Shiraz.
Aboriginal elder Aunty Millie Ingram stressed the importance of education as a transformative power to advance reconciliation in Australia when she addressed a reception following a service at the Sydney Baha’i Temple.
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop MP has issued a message for an event marking the sixth anniversary of the continuing imprisonment of seven Baha’i leaders in Iran in which she expresses “deep concerns” about the treatment of Baha’is and others.
A poet who has written verses of uplifting spirituality will remain incarcerated in her prison cell when two Australian actors read examples of her work to a Sydney audience on 29 May 2014.
Australian relatives of Baha’i leaders jailed in Iran for their religious beliefs are once again calling for their immediate release.
Australian relatives of Baha’i leaders jailed in Iran for their religious beliefs are once again calling for their immediate release.
The Australian Baha’i Community is shocked to learn that Iranian authorities are allowing the excavation of a Shiraz cemetery which has some 950 graves of Baha’is, including those of ten women hanged in 1983 for teaching the equivalent of Sunday school lessons.
Baha’is from throughout Australia have elected the members of the Faith’s national governing body, the National Spiritual Assembly, at the annual convention in Sydney.