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Word: baha (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Samuel McLellan, a member of the Cambridge Baha'i Community, the International Baha'i Community plans to use every possible action and influence in an attempt to intervene in the case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Divinity School Members Protest Verdict on Baha'i | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

...Moroccan tribunal sentenced three men of the Baha'i faith to death on grounds of their religious affiliation. Virtually the entire faculty of the Harvard Divinity School has supported an appeal to the United Nations to censure the decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Divinity School Members Protest Verdict on Baha'i | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

George H. Williams, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History, said that the immediate concern of the Divinity School faculty members is to save the lives of the three Baha'i. "The fact that people are sentenced to death for their religious beliefs and practices is unthinkable," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Divinity School Members Protest Verdict on Baha'i | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

...December, King Hassan II of Morocco had amended the Moroccan constitution to provide freedom from persecution for established religious groups. McLellan explained, however, that heretic groups were not protected under the new amendment. It is still uncertain whether the 300 members of the Baha'i religion are considered it heretics in the new ruling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Divinity School Members Protest Verdict on Baha'i | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

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