Category: News
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A youth inspired to make an impact in the Killarney community
A couple of years ago, Sean Marr was invited to a junior youth group by a friend, the way many other youths are introduced to the core activities. Sean joined the junior youth group and then didn’t attend for a while before coming back. He was beginning to engage in a path of service, which…
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Not just for laughs
Humour is used to lift up spirits but it can also be healing and deep. The power of words, both written and spoken, is well understood by comedians, such as Kevin Scow. “I always tried to be funny. It took me a while to make people laugh in my own nuanced way”, he shares. “By…
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To the compassionate hearts of Vancouver
27 April 2025 To the compassionate hearts of Vancouver, With deepest sorrow, we join in mourning the tragedy that occurred yesterday at the Lapu Lapu Day festival. In times of great calamity and loss, it becomes all the more clear that every resident of our city must be seen as part of one family, tightly…
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The shop that served as a unifying devotional space
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…
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Connecting with friends and neighbours through a unique internship
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…
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Canadian-Baha’i community remembers execution of 10 women in Iran for refusing to recant their faith
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…
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“Echoes of injustice”: Global event honors 10 Bahá’í women 40 years on
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…
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Sandra Lynn Hutchison: Forty years later, I take strength from the courage of 10 women executed at Iran’s Adelabad prison
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…
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#OurStoryIsOne, Memorial Event, 16 June 2023, Vancouver Playhouse
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…