Bahai Faith Page

Dear friends, we'd like to call your attention to the situation involving the Baha'is in Iran, who are being denied their civil rights as part of the ongoing suppression of the Faith in the country of its birth. Most recently this suppression has affected schoolaged children who are being suspended and expelled from school for identifying themselves as Baha'is and/or verbally defending the Faith from attack. For more information, please visit the following links: http://iran.bahai.us/iranian-bahai-school-children

Currently, the US House of Representatives is considering House Resolution 1008 calling for a cessation of the suppression of the Baha'i community in Iran and a return of their full civil rights. Ms. Kit Bigelow, a representative of the National Spiritual Assemby of the Baha'is of the United States gave testimony to the House on the status of Baha'is in Iran. Ms. Bigelow's testimony available for reading at the website of the Leadership Council for Human Rights. I've also included a link to the full text of the Resolution. Please folks -- ask your represenatives to sign on!

	The Bahá'í Faith
BAHA'IS IN IRAN	Dear friends, we'd like to call your attention to the situation involving the Baha'is in Iran, who are being denied their civil rights as part of the ongoing suppression of the Faith in the country of its birth. Most recently this suppression has affected schoolaged children who are being suspended and expelled from school for identifying themselves as Baha'is and/or verbally defending the Faith from attack. For more information, please visit the following links: http://iran.bahai.us/iranian-bahai-school-children Currently, the US House of Representatives is considering House Resolution 1008 calling for a cessation of the suppression of the Baha'i community in Iran and a return of their full civil rights. Ms. Kit Bigelow, a representative of the National Spiritual Assemby of the Baha'is of the United States gave testimony to the House on the status of Baha'is in Iran. Ms. Bigelow's testimony available for reading at the website of the Leadership Council for Human Rights. I've also included a link to the full text of the Resolution. Please folks -- ask your represenatives to sign on!
	We are Bahá'ís. I've been a Bahá'í since I was 18. Jeff embraced the Faith a couple of years after we married. What can I say about the Faith? It's been the most essential constant of our adult lives. I'd been raised a Christian, but I found Christ and true Christianity in the teachings of Bahá'u'lláh. Jeff was an agnostic. He found God here. Jeff often says that Bahá'u'lláh proved the truth of Christ to him and Christ proved the truth of Bahá'u'lláh. Our music is profoundly influenced by our belief in Bahá'u'lláh. The title cut of our second CD, Manhattan Sleeps, was inspired by our attendance at the Bahá'í World Congress in New York City in 1992. If you'd like to hear cuts from this CD, you can listen to them on CD Baby or iTunes.
*Arise and shine,* *for thy Lord is with thee.*	In my writing, I sometimes use Bahá'í characters and/or deal with Bahá'í themes. In one of my stories -- a magic realism novelette entitled The White Dog, I set the theme for the story with a retelling of a vignette from Abdu'l-Baha's journey in America. "The White Dog" was published in Interzone Magazine in the UK and was nominated to the final ballot for the 1999 British Science Fiction Award. If you'd like to read this story, click here.
Some Bahá'í links ... www.bahai.org www.usbahai.org