Sandra Hogarth Cooles
I must have been 6 or 7 years old when my grandmother asked what I wanted to be when I …
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Bahiyeh (Soraya) Caprez
My earliest childhood memories are of my dear father chanting Bahá’í prayers. Many years before this, my father and his …
Fiona Saunders-Priem
My parents were Victor and Veronica Priem. Victor Priem Victor Priem was born in Riga, Latvia, in October 1925. His …
Valerie Rhind (née Jones)
I was born Valerie Margaret Jones in October 1944, the elder daughter of Rose (née Le Gray) and her husband, …
Irene Jane Taafaki (née Jones) 1946-2023
Irene Jane was born on 1 October 1946 in Cardiff, Wales, the daughter of Oswald Matthew and Rose (née Le …
Alfred Sharpe (revised and updated)
“But you are a Baha’i!” These were the words of Ridvan Moqbel. We had arrived within a few minutes of …
Pat Morrissey
” …only the view backward shows you how utterly random and chance-driven these vital connections are.” William Boyd, “Any Human …
Marion Klyne (1927-2024)
I had left the church (Methodist) when I was 18, having decided that all the revealed religions were all right …
John Machin
There are as many pathways on the journey to the recognition of the truth of the Bahá’í Faith as there …
Martin Rainsford and Niamh Hynes (1966-2019)
Forty Years of Faith Early Life In the 1950s, both my mother and my father had left Ireland to live …
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