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19 Day Fast Times 2010
Sunrise & Sunset Times for Newcastle upon Tyne At Latitude 55°00′N, Longitude 1°36′W For the year 166 BE (2010 CE) Date Sunrise Sunset ‘Alá’ 1 (March 2) Tuesday 6:53am 6:53am ‘Alá’ 2 (March 3) Wednesday 6:51:am 5:46pm ‘Alá’ 3 (March … Continue reading
Fairtrade – A Bahá’í Perspective
At the Newcastle Bahá’í Centre, we have recently started a monthly open deepening/fireside, exploring different themes within the Faith. It all started with some deepening’s we received from the NSA on the fund and we kind of carried it on. … Continue reading
Developing a Bahá’í Website
For the past couple of months myself and a friend have been developing a new website for our local Bahá’í community. We started with a document passed to us via the UKs office of Public Information, which immediately required we change … Continue reading
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Christmas and Stuff
Hi all, been a bit ill past few weeks so my post pretty much dried up. Picked up a seasonal lurgy, you know the type, nasty cough that refuses to go away and with the very cold weather it just wouldn’t shift. … Continue reading
Human Rights Day
Today (December 10th 2009) is Human Rights Day, so to honour this, please read the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which is found below. God Bless Michael Article 1. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and … Continue reading
Non-Baha’is at Feasts
Last week the Baha’i community which I belong to receive a letter from the Universal House of Justice (UHJ), forwarded to us by the National Spiritual Assembly (NSA). And the contents of the letter say so much about our community … Continue reading
The Raga Has Been Dropped
Today Switzerland went to the polls on a referendum proposed by the Swiss People Party (SVP), the poll was a proposal to ban the building of minarets. The result was 57% in favour of this proposal, something which the Swiss … Continue reading
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God or Allah… Again!
One of my very first posts on this blog was a look at the problem in Malaysia of how the countries Christians are not allowed to refer to God as Allah, which is Malay for God. Well I have read … Continue reading
Free and Equal in Dignity and Rights
This week the Islamic Republic of Iran gave the British Museum a two month deadline to lend them the Cyrus cylinder, an artifact discovered in the ruins of Babylon in 1879, and widely believed to be the first human rights … Continue reading
Drop Your Bombs between the Minarets
On the 29th November, the Swiss will vote in a referendum which proposes to outlaw the constructions of Minarets at Mosques in the country, and it’s a heated battle that really symbolises the rampant Islamophobia present in Western Europe today. … Continue reading
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