December, 2009

Melbourne, Australia — How can interfaith dialogue and religious freedom flourish when one religion declares that another is not a religion? Are tolerance and cooperation only possible among people who share the same doctrinal view of the world? (Watch below the 2009 Parliament 'Invitation to Melbourne' video - Melbourne for the Parliament of the World's Religions, December 3-9, 2009)

A common theme in many Arabian Nights tales is fate and destiny. The Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini observed: “every tale in The Thousand and One Nights begins with an 'appearance of destiny” which manifests itself through an anomaly and one anomaly always generates another. So a chain of anomalies is set up. And the more logical, tightly knit, essential this chain is, the more beautiful the tale... The end of every tale in the The One Thousand and One Nights consists of a 'disappearance' of destiny, which sinks back to the somnolence of daily life ... The protagonist "one who plays the first  main character of the stories” is in fact destiny itself.  Thank you for being with us, Bob.  Your Artist life has been a profound and busy one, lets  us hear your Chinese and American Tales (smile!)

En October 2008, la Maison Universelle de Justice annonce 41 conférences régionales qui doivent se tenir tout autour du monde sur une période de quatre mois. La réponse de cette invitation a été merveilleuse. Plus de 80,000 Bahá’ís et leurs amis de plus de 170 pays ont participé à ces conférences.