Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Community encourages peaceful relations with the Muslim community.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Andrea Hart
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
This story is part of a Patch series examining the Muslim experience 10 years after the Sept. 11 attacks. Read other stories in the series here. Like many religious groups, the Bahá’í International Community saw the need for a renewed call for openness and friendship with Muslims in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. Two months after the attacks, the group issued a statement in The New York Times to encourage peaceful relations with the Muslim community. "It was a statement talking about the peril we’re in right now, and trying to remind us how the Bahá’í writings say that America has a spiritual destiny to bring the world together," said Ellen Price, the U.S. Bahá’í National Center's assistant director in the office of communications in …
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Evanston vigil to honor seven Bahai's who've been imprisoned for more than two years.
At a prison in Tehran, Iran, seven leaders of the Baha'i religion have been locked away for more than two years for little more than practicing their faith. For too many wrongly imprisoned persons around the world, the story ends right here, at incarceration. And perhaps it would be so for these seven as well, if not for the dedicated efforts of a local group of citizens fighting for justice to prevail. "Amnesty International Group 50 [Evanston] has adopted the case of the seven Baha'is," said Elise Auerbach, the Iran Country Specialist at Amnesty International USA. "That means they will work on this particular case long term; they will work until it's resolved." On Thursday, more than 7,000 miles away from Iran, approximately 200 people …
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
A federal court has ruled the Orthodox Bahá'í Faith can keep its name.
Update, Nov. 24 at 1:37pm. The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled Tuesday that an orthodox faction of the Bahá'í faith can still call themselves Bahá'ís. The federal ruling hits close to home for Wilmette, which houses the North American Bahá'í House of Worship."We are disappointed that the Court still failed to find the respondents in contempt of the injunction," according to a statement from the U.S. Baha'i National Center in Evanston. The decision states that a 1966 ruling that stopped a sect, referred to as the Hereditary Guardianship, from using names and symbols of the Bahá'í faith does not apply to this case. While the sect disbanded, "over time the former followers of the Hereditary Guardianship established…
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