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Like many, Pavlos Agelidis has used his work and his resources to serve the Faith and his community. But his coming to the Faith is unlike many others. Pavlos opened a cigar shop in 2005, in downtown Vancouver. He came to know the Bahá’í Faith one or two years later, by meeting a Buddhist who…

Three youth from Vancouver have put a part of their summer towards meeting new people and solidifying the friendships they already had in the Strathcona neighbourhood. Michelle, Jackie and Starling, all 20 years old, have participated in a unique internship that was community focused. For six weeks, the trio made efforts to get out of…

Around 650 people gathered in Vancouver in commemoration of the past, and to call for an end to the current oppression of women in Iran. By Fabian Dawson, June 19, 2023 Every June, for the past 40 years, Vancouver resident Nahid Mazloum has relived the horror of her mother, sister, and father being executed for refusing…

LONDON — On Wednesday evening, Central Hall Westminster in London resonated with artistic performances and moving presentations honoring the 10 Bahá’í women executed in Iran 40 years ago. This global commemorative event was part of the “Our Story Is One” endeavor—a year-long campaign that honors the memory of the 10 Bahá’í women and sheds light on the…

Source: Vancouver Sun, June 22, 2023 Opinion: On June 18 this year, I didn’t think of dark prison cells as I remembered the ten women executed at Adelabad prison in Iran on that date in 1983, but of free spirits and butterflies, of a vision of a just and tolerant Iran in which all people…

Forty years ago, the Islamic Republic of Iran hanged 10 Baha’i women in a single night in a square in the city of Shiraz. Their crime was refusing to renounce their beliefs in a faith that promotes the principles of gender equality—absent and criminalized in Iran to the present day. To maximize the horror and…