News

The Baha’í immigrants’ narratives and experiences reaffirm and complicate our understandings of how religious, national, and cultural identities are negotiated. Akhavi, S. (1980). Religion and ...
The Iranian authorities’ persecution of the Baha’i minority since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 constitutes a crime against humanity, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday. The New York ...
Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...
(CNN)-- Seven Baha'i prisoners face a death-penalty trial Saturday in Iran amid calls for their release from a U.S. panel on religious freedom. Responding to a letter from Roxana Saberi ...
Women from Iran's Baha'i community face intersectional persecution as both women and as Baha'is. "We express serious concern at what appears to be an increase in systematic targeting of Iranian women ...
The report also found that Iranian authorities are carrying out the crime against humanity of persecution against Baha'is in Iran, the largest non-Muslim religious minority. Iranian authorities ...
Simply put, the Bahá’í Faith began on May 23, 1844, when a young Muslim scholar on a quest to find the Promised One ...
The explosion that rocked an Iranian port had its epicenter at a facility ultimately owned by a charitable foundation overseen by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s office.
Representatives of Baha’i, Iran’s largest religious minority, say it is the target of targeted discrimination. Mohammadi is the fifth laureate in the more than 120-year history of the Nobel ...
GENEVA—7 May 2025—The Baha’i International Community (BIC) is alarmed by the recent arrest and detention of Mr. Remy Rowhani, a senior Baha'i dignitary and respected Qatari citizen, in Doha on 28 ...
At least fifteen other Baha’is were held in prison and seven ... Miyankang in Sistan va Baluchestan province in south-eastern Iran was killed, leading to protests from the local community ...