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In mid may, 54 members of the Baha'i community of Shiraz, Iran
were arrested while teaching
children in a religiously-neutral setting. No indication has been given as to
the cause of their arrest. While most have been released, a few remain in
jail. Many in the international community see this as continuing evidence of
the renewed persecution — alluded to in our
April
editorial — of the Baha'is in their homeland of Iran, where
they are the largest religious minority yet do not enjoy equal rights with
the majority religion or other minority religions.

The Interfaith Alliance Foundation and Walter Cronkite announced in
October the recipients of the 2004 Walter Cronkite Faith and Freedom
Award: Rev. Dr. James Forbes, Bill Moyers, and Judith Davidson
Moyers.

A coalition of religious leaders, activists, and academics has asked the United States Congress to maintain support and development of non-governmental organizations in Russia to address issues of religious freedom, human rights, and democracy.

“The International Movement for a Just World (JUST) takes great pleasure in presenting to the public an International Convention on the International Protection of Places of Worship. It is our humble hope that the proposed Convention will be adopted by the United Nations in the near future.