Ever since the Baha’i faith was founded in Persia — now Iran — in the 19th century, its followers there have been persecuted, ...

Iran has intensified arrests and raids targeting Baha'is during protests and wartime tension. Rights groups say the campaign uses fear, forced confessions and scapegoating to deepen repression.

Iranian authorities’ decades-long systematic repression of Baha’is simply because they belong to a faith group amounts to the crime against humanity of persecution. Government agencies arrest and ...

Chattanooga Baha’i Center, 2405 Hamil Road in Hixson, holds weekly worship at 10:30 a.m. Sundays. For more information, call 423-870-9164. The first feature documentary on the founding of the Baha'i' ...

(Sanaa) – Yemeni authorities should drop all charges against a member of the Baha’i faith detained since December 2013, apparently for his religious beliefs. Prosecutors are expected to seek the death ...

The abuse is most evident in Iran, which bans the faith and has been widely accused of persecuting its adherents, human rights advocates say. The Baha’i faith — a small but global religion with an ...

Two hundred years ago, in 1817, Baha’u’llah, the prophet-founder of the Baha’i world religion was born in Iran. His new revelation was preceded by the announcement of the “Promised One” by the Bab ...

One of the biggest gripes I have about my academic field of social science is that it explains a lot about human behavior but is very short on prescriptions for how to live day to day. Even when it ...