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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Kayhan Newspaper, Tehran’s major daily news organ, often publishes articles that are sad examples of yellow journalism and in fact on rare occasions that somebody buys this paper, it must be for its entertainment (read, fictional!) value. In line with its “journalistic policies”, Kayhan is driven by sensationalism, and in order to cause hysteria, [...]

We very much appreciate that our kind readers bring to our attention important documents pertaining to violation of human rights of Baha’is of Iran, or other important news or interesting commentaries. One such commentary that caught our attention was posted on the Persian Negah site (http://www.newnegah.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=584&Itemid=15) and we offer a summary translation below. [...]

As has been previously reported on this site, the Iranian clerical establishment has persistently carried out a vicious and sustained campaign of misinformation about the Baha’i Faith and its teachings. Their aim is to provoke a negative opinion among the Iranian population, particularly the uneducated and naïve masses, against the Baha’is and prepare the [...]

A blog posting in Persian was brought to our attention and we decided to share a summary translation for the benefit of our readers. The original is found here: http://ostade-azal.blogfa.com/post-45.aspx
Summary translation:
The recent reception given to the President of Iran, Mahmud Ahmadinejad, during his visit to Columbia University was rather unfortunate. The University [...]

An organization known as Iran Human Rights Documentation Center has recently published an impressive monograph that we like to bring to the attention of our readers. This monograph is titled Community under Siege: The Ordeal of the Baha’is of Shiraz, and can be downloaded from http://www.iranhrdc.org/english/pdfs/Reports/community_report.pdf
The Baha’i faith was founded in the mid-nineteenth [...]

Not according to this year’s International Religious Freedom Report (via the Assyrian International News Agency):
Here’s what certain religious minorities, including the Baha’is, have to face:
“There were reports of societal abuses and discrimination based on religious belief or practice. Violent attacks and threats against non-Muslims during the reporting period created an atmosphere of pressure and diminished [...]

The Baha’i Faith in Egypt blog extensively reports the following in a recent post:
After the release of the 2007 US State Department report on International Religious Freedom, Egypt is repeating its previous stand: that religious minorities are not discriminated against and that they have equal citizenship rights in Egypt.
Cairo: El-Badeel newspaper reported, on 16 September [...]