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Al-Qaradawi: Muslim-Baha’i Marriage is Wrong
Below is a translation of a recently published report on the Egyptian news portal Bab.com
Al-Qaradawi: the marriage of a Muslim man to a Baha’i woman is wrong
Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, President of the World Federation of Muslim Scholars, issued a formal legal opinion (fatwa) that it is illegal for a Muslim man to marry a Baha’i [...]
Freedom of belief and the Arab mind dilemma
This is a translation of an article that recently appeared in the Egyptian weekly magazine Rosa Al-Yousef:
Freedom of belief and the Arab mind dilemma
By Pastor Rif’at Fikri Sa’yid
Issue number 4238 of Rosa Al-Yousef’s magazine, released on 29 August 2009, contained a unique and bold article about freedom of belief, and I thought of providing my [...]
Egypt: Still No Justice for the Baha’is of Shuraniya
The Egyptian paper Al Youm conducted an interview with A’adel Ramadan, a lawyer at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, who represents the Baha’i families whose houses were burned down this March in the southern village of Shuraniya. The rioters, incited by anti-Baha’i calls on Egyptian TV, surrounded the area where the Baha’is lived in [...]
Discrimination against Baha’is in Egypt Persists
The American Public Radio International (PRI) recently reported about the Baha’i community in Egypt, following the implementation of the court ruling that allowed Baha’is to leave the religious affiliation field in their IDs blank.
PRI interviewed several members of the community, including Dr. Raouf Hindi, the Baha’i whose battle in court to allow his daughters to [...]
70 Egyptians Arrested During Protest Against Relocating Baha’is to Their Village
Egyptian authorities have arrested 70 people in connection with protests in the village of Ezba in the Sohag governorate. The protests followed rumors that the Baha’is whose houses were burned down by mobs in the village of Sharoniyah three months ago, would be resettled in the village. The protesters gathered around the Ezba municipal offices, [...]
Egypt: The Civil Status Department refuses to recognize Baha’i marriages
The following is a translation of an article that recently appeared in Al Youm:
The Civil Status Department refuses to recognize Baha’i marriages
by Nahed Nasser
On the seventh day I discovered that the Civil Status Department in Cairo refused to accept the application forms belonging to a number of female and male spouses requesting the issuance of [...]
Egyptian Baha’i: Women are world peacemakers
The following piece is a translation of Dr. Basma Mousa’s latest article in “Youm 7.” Dr. Mousa is a prominent Egyptian Baha’i.
Today, a voice is raised in many parts of the earth calling upon world peace. The need for peace these days does not only entail peace in a single area, but in the world [...]
For fear that he would convert from Islam to the Baha’i faith
The following is a translation of an article that recently appeared in Al Youm:
The first judicial ruling to give the custody of a child to his mother’s family after she embraced the Baha’i faith.
By Siham Al Basha
Today, Department 12 at Al-Zananiri Court issued the first ruling to give the custody of a little child to [...]
Egyptian Baha’i: “One world, one language”
The following is a translation of an article written by prominent Egyptian Baha’i Dr. Basma Mousa in “Youm 7.”
Throughout its long history, the social system of the march of humanity had undergone various stages, arriving to where it is today. The experience was successful and managed to achieve unity within the family, the tribe, [...]
A Baha’i in Egypt: “The earth is one nation and all human beings are its inhabitants”
This is a translation of an article by Egyptian Baha’i Dr. Basma Mousa which was recently published:
When we look at the world today, we discover that it is in need of unity to face the challenges confronting it, which have originally resulted from the harsh manner human beings deal with mother earth that carried us, [...]

Persecution of Baha'is since 1979

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Mapping the intensifying wave of raids and arrests






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