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A Prayer from the Baha'i Writings A Prayer from the Baha'i Writings
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Religion should be the Cause of Love and Affection

Religion should unite all hearts and cause wars and disputes to vanish from the face of the earth, give birth to spirituality, and bring life and light to each heart. If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division, it were better to be without it, and to withdraw from such a religion would be a truly religious act.

For it is clear that the purpose of a remedy is to cure; but if the remedy should only aggravate the complaint it had better be left alone. Any religion which is not a cause of love and unity is no religion. All the holy prophets were as doctors to the soul; they gave prescriptions for the healing of mankind; thus any remedy that causes disease does not come from the great and supreme Physician.

('Abdu'l-Bahá: Paris Talks, Page: 130)

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The Mansion at Bahji, Akka, Israel
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View a larger picture. Baha'i professional religion communicators won seven DeRose-Hinkhouse "Awards of Excellence" for the production of magazines, booklets, books, special issue publications, CD illustration, and website design. Five secondary-level "Awards of Merit" were given to Baha'is for editorial writing, video documentary, and other forms of presentation.

"Without doubt, this was a banner year for Baha'i professional religion communicators, who won more awards in more categories in this annual competition than ever before," said Brad Pokorny, the editor of 'ONE COUNTRY, the newsletter of the Baha'i International Community'.

Mr. Pokorny, who has also been a member of the RCC since 1988, won two awards this year. He won an Award of Excellence in the category for "public relations materials, booklets" for The Baha'i Question, a booklet about the human rights situation of the Baha'is in Iran, which was published by the Office of Public Information of the Baha'i International Community. He also won a Certificate of Merit for an editorial in 'ONE COUNTRY' titled "The Challenge of Extreme Poverty."

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