Singapore and Sarawak
Singapore and Sarawak . . . whenever thou findest an opportunity thou dost travel and visit the believers, disseminating the fragrances of God . . . Bahai writings `Abdu’l-Baha, the son of the Founder of the Baha’i Faith, said that the Baha’i `teachers must continually travel to all parts of the continent, nay, rather, to all parts of the world’. To fulfil this request, Moojan and I left the UK on 19 November to visit Baha’i communities in Asia and the Pacific. Travel these days is really no more arduous than getting on a bus, although there are the inevitable hold-ups going through security checks at the airport. The main delay

Blog Action Day: Changing the Climate towards Climate Justice
`. . . ye walk on My earth complacent and self-satisfied, heedless that My earth is weary of you and everything within it shunneth you.’ Bahai writings The climate has changed. It wasn’t all that long ago that politicians and the media and many of us were wondering whether the predictions about the future could be right. Was there scientific evidence? Wasn’t it just part of a natural cycle? Were we responsible? The political climate was not to accept responsibility, to carry on carrying on, to continue to act in exactly the same way we had always acted. The climate has changed. Now government after government is trying to figure out how to reduce

On the Occasion of the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh - Statement of EBBF
The readjustment of the social economic is of the greatest importance inasmuch as it insures the stability of the world of humanity; and until it is effected, happiness and prosperity are impossible. Bahai writings I have just returned from the EBBF’s excellent conference in the Netherlands, entitled `Window of Opportunity’. I was pleased to be elected the new Secretary General, with Mahmud Samandari the new chairman and George Starcher the treasurer. Daniel Truran was appointed Director General. The Governing Board issued an important statement to coincide with the meeting of the G20 in Pittsburgh. Here it is (and here we are writing it - Arthur Dahl, me, Mah