‘We have been working to undo these associations for a decade’
By Aaron Wherry - Thursday, September 8, 2011 - 5 Comments
The prepared text of Nycole Turmel’s remarks yesterday to the Global Conference on World’s Religions after 9/11.
I am delighted to welcome all of you to this conference and to Canada. And I am proud that Canada is hosting such an important exploration of peace and faith.
Because Canadians, at our best, are strong advocates of peace in the world. We identify strongly with Canada’s tradition as a leading voice for peace. Canadians, are to their core, people of peace.
And we share with everyone in this room a faith in the immense potential of the human spirit.
That kind of faith in each other was shaken on September 11, 2001 — pierced by those four rogue aircraft that caused such suffering.
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“They don’t want to leave a trace of anything Baha’i”
By Michael Petrou - Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 2:28 PM - 52 Comments
Some fear the oppression of a little-known religious minority in Iran is intensifying
Naeim Tavakkoli last saw his father Behrouz three years ago in Tehran’s infamous Evin prison. Behrouz, a leader in among the 300,000 Iranians who follow the Baha’i religion, had failed to come home weeks earlier. Naeim, his mother, and brother searched hospitals and police stations but found no trace. Finally they were told Behrouz had been arrested by the Intelligence Ministry and were allowed to see him.
The three of them sat across from Behrouz on a small bench in a tiny room with two government agents standing behind them, watching and listening. “My father was slim, pale, with a long beard. They didn’t let him shave,” Naeim said in an interview with Maclean’s. “He was limping, wearing a jail uniform, not quite clean. Pajamas, basically.” Continue…
