TW Newsletter Number 14 - April 2010

Welcome to the April 2010 Treasures of Wonderment Newsletter, an online magazine promoting positive change through creative living.

Update on the Baha'i Trial in Tehran: Getting no news does not always mean getting good news. We have no date for their 4th trial session but what we do know is that these innocent people are entering into their 3rd year in Evin prison and have been inhumanely treated.

In this issue:

THIS TRUTH IMPRISONS THEM
The judge who presided over the  third trial of the Iranian Bahá'í leaders in Tehran, adjourned the session without announcing a continuance date. “The Islamic Republic of Iran should immediately set free these seven innocent prisoners,” said Diane Ala’i, Bahá'í representative to the United Nations in Geneva. “ Watch a video of Dan Seals (England Dan, half of the Grammy nominated duo England Dan and John Ford Coley), a Bahá'í of many years (February 8, 1948 – March 25, 2009) singing with the Voices of Baha, an international Bahá'í choir. Read more...

A WIN-WIN SITUATION
Heather Cardin holds degrees in Arts and Education from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and a Master’s degree in English from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. She has published three books and has another forthcoming. She and her husband Bernie have settled in rural Saskatchewan, Canada after living for lengthy periods in British Columbia and Quebec. Their three children are now grown up. Read more...

KNOW WHAT YOU WANT
What happens when a small town, Montana woman decides to jump, without a net, into a new life in a tropical paradise and a foreign world of unknown parameters? It’s surprising, it’s scary and it’s a whole lot of fun! [Find below an interview-video with Lisa by Andy Browne from Boomer’s Offshore] Read more...

MY HAND ON THE BUSH
Interview with former nun Geraldine Graber -Sister Anthony- who entered a convent in Toronto, at the age of sixteen and taught elementary school during her seventeen years as a nun. Geraldine Graber "Gerri" , Director, Founder of WHISCA, holds a PhD degree from Oregon State University, to provide for AIDS orphans, to support education, and to foster independent living through employment training in Chad and, currently, in Kenya. Read more...

STOP RELIGIOUS PERSECUTIONS
By Rainn Wilson, Special to CNN -- Why is Rainn Wilson, "Dwight" on "The Office," writing a news commentary for CNN?  Good question. It's a bit strange for me, to say the least; a comic character actor best known for playing weirdos with bad haircuts getting all serious to talk about the persecution of the fellow members of his religious faith. Read more...

THEY ARE STILL IN PRISON TODAY
April 03, 2010 - Journalist Roxana Saberi spent four months in jail after being arrested in Iran. Host Scott Simon talks to Saberi about her new memoir, Between Two Worlds: My Life and Captivity in Iran and about the other prisoners she met while she was there. Hear the NPR's programming audio, below. Read more...

WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP
Los Angeles Times - The tiny club of female presidents in Latin America will grow by one with the election in Costa Rica of Laura Chinchilla. She won the presidency in a landslide victory Sunday and takes office May 8, 2010. The socially conservative, pro-business former vice president hails from the party of incumbent President Oscar Arias, a Nobel Peace Prize winner for his work in the 1980s to end Central America's wars. Read more...

DEMANDE D'INTERVENTION
France Sénat du 01/04/2010 -  M. Jean-Claude Gaudin   (Bouches-du-Rhône - UMP) attire l'attention de M. le ministre des affaires étrangères et européennes sur la situation particulièrement préoccupante de la communauté Baha'i d'Iran. Read more... 

Enjoy TW Featured Artists and Writer's Corner
-The Night of the Blue Moon by ruie Mullins
-Outpourings by Maria Chouchtari
-The Woman by Vahid Oloro
-Creative Dimensions of Suffering Dr. Ghadirian
and more.

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