An Indonesian news agency reports on Baha’i converts in the country:
Palu (ANTARA News) - At least 31 residents of Banpers village in Palolo sub-district, Donggala district, Central Sulawesi, have converted their belief in Islam into that in Bahai.
Head of the Religious Affairs Office in Palolo sub-district, Nuyyun Nur said here on Sunday that the Bahai […]

Akriti Jain, who writes for Imprint Online, the official student newspaper of Waterloo students in Canada, shares an op-ed about the case of Baha’is within Iran:
Excerpts:
The lecture, given by Gerald Filson, director of external affairs of the Baha’is of Canada, was about the denial of education to people of the Baha’i faith in Iran. It […]

Below is an important e-mail received from Dr Basma Moussa, who teaches surgery in Cairo University:
We have 3 cases [to be presented] in court. The first case concerns a Muslim grandfather who wants to take a child 6 years from his Baha’i family because of their religion. The 2nd and 3rd cases are explained in […]

Recent video submitted in YouTube documents the IRI’s human rights abuses against its Baha’i minority:

The following presentation was offered on the educational channel PBS and titled “I believe”. This segment was on the Baha’i Faith.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4829104988071579690&pr=goog-sl

There still seems to be many misconceptions as to what a Baha’i really is and what Baha’i teachings revolve around, below we share a video about the Baha’i faith that may make things clear for our non-Baha’i readers:

In spirit of interfaith dialogue, the following news story caught our attention:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071011/ts_nm/religion_scholars_dc

On 7 October 2007, the United Republicans of Iran issued a proclamation in Persian demanding an end to discriminations against the Baha’is of that country. This proclamation is available on that organization’s site at: http://jomhouri.com/a/01ann/006443.php
The same organization, which aims at bringing about a “democratic and secular republic” in Iran, on 8 October 2007, […]

The Baha’i Faith in Egypt blog recently posted a “tribute to the Suffering Baha’is of Iran” signified by the following video, a great performance by the Baha’i youth of Shiraz:

One of our readers was kind enough to share the following news item, which we found very inspiring and decided to post it here for your enjoyment. It is heartwarming to find such examples where people have learned to live with one another in peace and harmony and to emphasize their commonalities as oppose […]