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Recently I started a Facebook Group (Gay Baha'is of California). This Group is here to offer support, love, and dialogue for GLBT Baha'is / former Baha'is / Seekers / Friends / Family and our Straight Baha'i allies in California.

This is a social/support group , not a branch , division, or sect of the Baha'i Faith. Please feel free to join my Facebook group.

-Sean…

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Recently I started a Facebook Group (Gay Baha'is of California). This Group is here to offer support, love, and dialogue for GLBT Baha'is / former Baha'is / Seekers / Friends / Family and our Straight Baha'i allies in California.

This is a social/support group , not a branch , division, or sect of the Baha'i Faith. Please feel free to join my Facebook group.

-Sean…

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NEW YORK — The Baha'i International Community has received reports indicating that seven Iranian Baha'i leaders have each received jail sentences of 20 years.



The two women and five men have been held in Tehran's notorious Evin prison since they were arrested in 2008 – six of them on 14 May and one of them two months earlier.



"If this news proves to be accurate, it represents a deeply shocking outcome to the case of these innocent and harmless people," said Bani Dugal, the… Continue

With the 20 year sentence imposed on Iran's 7 Baha'i Leaders Maryam Ishani reports for the Huffington Post.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maryam-ishani/what-is-the-future-of-rel_b_676180.html

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Here is the latest out of Iran , we were able to confirm it this week. This is the latest attempt to destroy the Iranian Baha'i Community. Please share with your congregations, religious communities, elected officials, and press.

-Sean Rayshel

GENEVA — Homes belonging to some 50 Baha’i families in a remote village in northern Iran have been demolished as part of a long-running campaign to expel them from the region.

The action occurred in Ivel,…

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Thanks to the Muslim Network for Baha'i Rights we have their "take" on the now classic "Persepolis" animated feature by Marjane Satrapi with the focus being on the persecuted Baha'i community of Iran. Often times the art of animation can better illustrate difficult subjects. Whatever your Faith please pray for the Iranian Baha'i community, every day they are facing mounting persecution in the form of jailing, cemetary desecration and destruction, firing from jobs, expulsion from…

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Here is the latest about the seven Baha'i Leaders being held in Prison in Iran. Please pray for these innocent souls. May God protect them.

-Sean

NEW YORK — The trial of seven Baha'i leaders imprisoned for more than two years in Iran seems to have come to a conclusion after three days of successive court hearings.

The seven appeared in Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran on the morning of Saturday, 12…

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