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Lua’s Last Journey
Lua Getsinger is a household name among Baha’is. She was among the first Western Baha’is to visit Abdu’l Baha and when he met her said to her “I have given you the power to speak and have loosened your tongue” and indeed she was to go on to become a great teacher of the Baha’i Faith. She travelled to India to support the teaching work there. When Abdu’l Baha was in America he entrusted her with travelling to California ahead of him to arrange his speaking engagements. She was sent by him to deliver a message to the Shah of Persia who was visiting Paris, to implore him to end…
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An Outline of Bahá’u’lláh’s Life
The bare facts of anyone’s life don’t do it justice. Yet they help us put the many complex pieces of the puzzle together and foster understanding. In this series we have dived straight in: exploring concepts, events and writings. Here we will step back and think about the outlines of Bahá’u’lláh’s life. There are two tools that I would like to use for this purpose. One is to refer you to the beautiful pictorial display of Bahá’u’lláh’s life maintained by the Baha’i International Community at bahaullah.org. There you will find a brief chronology, images associated with Bahá’u’lláh’s life and a narrative of key events. The second tool I will use is to adopt ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s…
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Bartolomé de las Casas: Un trabajador de principios de los derechos humanos
Bartolomé de las Casas es uno de los notables en la historia que surgió en el comienzo mismo del movimiento moderno de derechos humanos. Un gran humanista, se enteró de los derechos humanos en su encuentro con el pueblo de América Central y del Sur durante el siglo XVI durante la invasión europea de las Américas. Él utilizó su cargo como fraile dominico y más tarde obispo de defender los derechos humanos de los pueblos indígenas de las Américas. Las Casas llegó a las América como parte de las expediciones coloniales de España, llegando en 1502 en La Española (hoy Haití y la República Dominicana), en el comienzo del encuentro…
