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The National Spiritual Assembly has issued a new statement on family violence as a follow-up to the one released at the start of the year. It is entitled "Violence in the Family - An Issue for Everyone" and local communities and individual Bahá'ís may well find it useful in their outreach to the wider community, and particular in their contact with groups concerned with this important subject.
The statement can be obtained from the Bahá’í Information Office. It is also available in electronic form on the national website or in electronic form (RTF or PDF format - please specify which) by sending an e-mail to the Bahá'í Information Office
“HIV/AIDS and Gender Equality: Transforming Attitudes and Behaviours”
The Bahá’í International Community issued this statement for the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS, which took place at the United Nations in New York 25-27 June 2001.
In order to promote awareness of this timely statement and make it easier for Bahá’ís to use it in their outreach work, the Bahá’í Information Office of the United Kingdom has prepared a formatted (A4) edition which is available on request. It will be sent along with the statement on HIV and AIDS prepared by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United Kingdom as we feel the two are complementary.
To obtain the documents electronically as PDF files e-mail – to obtain them as hard copy please contact BIO and they will be sent to you.
The section "The First Irish Bahá’ís" on the UK Bahá’í Heritage Website has been extended with an item about Dr William Cormick (who attended the Báb and was the only Westerner to leave an account), and on Belfast's very material connections with 'Abdu'l-Báha. The site can be visited at from here.
During the early days of the Bahá'í Faith in North America, there was only one magazine that published newly revealed Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Baha; accounts of His travels and activities; stories and reports of the activities of believers all around the world, and scholarship, analysis, and other articles by many of the most prominent early believers. Founded at the encouragement of 'Abdu'l-Bahá in 1910 and discontinued in 1935, that magazine was "Star of the West," the first international Bahá'í periodical.
George Ronald in 1978 reprinted about half of the original volumes in an eight volume set, but these covered only the years 1910 to 1924. The complete set has never been available to the Bahá'í world, save for private
collections of original issues-- until now. The first complete republication of Star of the West on one CD-ROM using Sifter, a powerful new technology for virtual publishing, has just been released. Visit www.bahai-education.org/star5.asp to learn more.
"The Star of the West is..." the House of Justice wrote in 1987, "historically unique, not only because of its position in the early history of the Cause in the West, but most important, because of its close association with the Master. He highly commended its publication and even wrote for it."
This electronic publication of "Star of the West" is word searchable and contains a scanned image of each page, including many original Tablets of 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Persian and English and photographs (including of the Master) published nowhere else. Like a book, Sifter lets you select a volume and open to a specific chapter or page, flip pages and make bookmarks and placeholders. Unlike a conventional book, however, Sifter’s bookshelf is completely word searchable. Type a few words and Sifter launches into a furious analysis, 'sifting' through its thousands of pages to find references to your topic.
To learn more about Sifter-Star of the West or to read Duane Troxel's in depth introduction to the magazine, visit the URL given above.