According to the Baha’i leadership studies, Iraq is home to less than 2,000 Baha’is, spread all across the country. In 1970, Iraq banned the Baha’i Faith, and in 1975 there was a subsequent decision of prohibiting the issuance of identification documents to Baha’is. In 2007 the government abolished the Ministry of Interior’s decision [...]

On Faith recently featured an article by Remz Pokorny, a Baha’i senior at Brandeis University. In the article, Remz spoke of the different views on faith his parents espoused, and how they had contributed to shaping his identity.
Forced to leave her homeland Iraq due to the persecution Baha’is were facing, Remz’s mother took an emotional [...]