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Audio Fearture: Situation of the Baha'is in Egypt

Kit Bigelow, director of the National Spiritual Assembly's Office of External Affairs in Washington, DC, speaks about the significance of the Baha'i community in Egypt.  Though not numerically large, the community is one of the oldest in the world, formed in the late 19th century during the lifetime of Baha'u'llah.  In the 1920s, in a landmark ruling, a Sunni court in Egypt in a ruled that the Baha'i Faith is an independent religion and not part of Islam, but still the Baha'is in Egypt continue to face various forms of repression (11 minutes). Download


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