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Cherie Blair QC – one of the United Kingdom’s leading human rights lawyers and wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair – is calling for Iran to ensure that seven leaders of the Bahá’í faith – held in prison for more than a year without charge or access to their legal counsel – be given [...]

An internationally recognised infertility consultant from the Midlands – who provides services in gynaecology, assisted conception and early pregnancy care - has been honoured for his work.
Masoud Afnan, 51, a member of the Birmingham Bahá’í community – was presented with a prestigious Lloyds TSB Jewel Award at a ceremony in the city on Saturday 11 July.
The Lloyds [...]

The veteran actor Earl Cameron has received his medal as a Commander of the British Empire (CBE).
The 91 year old actor was honoured with a CBE in HM the Queen’s New Year Honours list for his “services to drama”. In an investiture ceremony held at Buckingham Palace, Mr Cameron received his award from HRH [...]

The experiences of two members of the Scottish Bahá’í community have been featured in an exhibition on the subject of pilgrimage, staged at a prestigious Glasgow museum.
The exhibition, at the St.Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, entitled Sacred Journeys: Expressions of Faith, explored the journeys of nine different religious adherents from Glasgow, two of whom - Menai [...]

The 15th edition of the UK Baha’i Review has been published. This attractive, full-colour, 32-page magazine, launched in 2001, showcases the activities and thinking of the Bahá’í community of the United Kingdom in the past twelve months.
Special features in the latest edition includes news of the UNESCO recognition of Baha’i holy places in Israel as [...]

London has hosted the United Kingdom’s largest Bahá’í gathering in 45 years with a northern European regional conference that brought together 3,200 people from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, and Greenland.
A World Congress held in the Royal Albert Hall in 1963 was the only bigger Bahá’í gathering in the city – [...]

Veteran actor, Earl Cameron, has been named a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) in HM the Queen’s New Year Honours list.
After a career spanning seven decades, 91 year old Mr Cameron has been honoured for his “services to drama”.
A dedicated member of the Bahá’í faith since 1963, Mr Cameron – who now lives in [...]

Lady Lilian Carpenter, the widow of the former Dean of Westminster Dr Edward Carpenter and a devoted member of the United Kingdom Bahá’í community has died at the age of 91.

Lady Carpenter met her husband, then a young curate, at the Holy Trinity church in Marylebone where she was active in its Sunday School and Youth [...]

A member of the UK Bahá’í community has won a prestigious award for her work in protecting high conservation priority areas around the world.
Mrs Guilda Navidi-Walker of Stisted was honoured by the World Wide Fund for Nature for the role she has played in helping convene summits for heads of states and ministers to agree to [...]