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Date 2017-08, sorted by date, ascending

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2017 1 Aug
201-		 The release of the film The Cost of Discrimination by Arash Azizi and Maziar Bahari which compared the social costs of discrimination in present day Iran to South Africa under the apartheid regime where, like in Iran, the Dutch Reform Church used their Holy Texts to justify the suppressive measures taken against people of "non-European" origin. * Persecution, Iran; - Christianity; - Documentaries; - Film; - Islam; - Persecution; Apartheid; Arash Azizi; Cost of Discrimination (film); Discrimination; Iran; Maziar Bahári; Race; South Africa
2017 25 Aug
201-		 The announcement of the opening of the new Pilgrim Reception Centre.
  • The three-story stone structure, which is located immediately to the west of the Shrine of the Bab, was opened in time to receive the season's first pilgrim group in October, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Bahá'u'lláh. [BWNS1188]
    		•  - Bahá'í World Centre; - Bahá'í World Centre; - Bahá'í World Centre buildings, monuments and gardens; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); Haifa, Israel; Pilgrim Houses; Pilgrim Reception Centre (Haifa); Pilgrimage; Pilgrims
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