UK Bahá’í News Update
29 January 2020
11 Sulṭán 176 B.E.
GC-34566
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Contents:
- Unit conventions 2020
- Chiefs seek lasting peace in light of spiritual truth
- Imprisonment, confiscation, denial of most basic civil rights: A surge in persecution of the Bahá’ís in Iran
Unit conventions 2020
The 2020 unit conventions will take place over the weekend of 5-6 December 2020. Please put these dates in your diary and keep this weekend free. It would be wise not to plan any other Bahá’í activities during this weekend, until the specific date of the unit convention in your area has been selected. This will facilitate as many friends as possible having the bounty of participating in this event which, as you are aware, is part of a process of profound significance within Bahá’í community life and, as noted in the 18 January 2019 message from the Universal House of Justice, “is itself an expression of peace”.
For reasons related to transportation, an exception to the above dates is provided to the ‘Shetland & Orkney Islands’, the ‘North Highlands & Western Islands’ and the, ‘Solent, Dorset & Channel Islands’ units. In this light, these three units may hold their unit conventions between early September and mid-October.
The Bahá’í community in the Democratic Republic of the Congo invited some 60 village and tribal chiefs to a three-day conference to explore how principles from Bahá’u’lláh’s writings can shed light on matters of practical and immediate concern for their society.
The chiefs, many of whom were on opposing sides of armed conflict only a year ago, discussed the true purpose of religion, the unity of the human family, the promotion of material and spiritual progress, and the critical role of women in building a peaceful society.
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Iranian authorities are preventing Bahá’ís across the country from obtaining national identification cards, while a series of home raids, confiscations, arrests, and attacks on properties have unjustly targeted Bahá’ís. These developments are part of a surge in persecution against the Bahá’í community in Iran.
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