April 27, 2016
Dearest Bahá’í Friends,
The
National Spiritual Assembly has just received word that the Voice of
America (VOA) Persian Service will―this coming Saturday, April 30, at
11:30 a.m. EDST (8:00 p.m. in Tehran)―be airing
in Persian an abbreviated version of the documentary film Luminous Journey: ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in America, 1912, transmitted via Ekran.
This
original film, created by Anne and Tim Perry of Perry Productions,
brings to light a facet of American history little known to the average
citizen: ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s 239-day sojourn in
the United States and Canada in 1912, the transforming effects of which
are still being felt more than a century later.
The
abbreviated version of the film being broadcast to Iran by VOA was
prepared by an Iranian filmmaker, Mr. Karim Bakhtiary, eager to
introduce ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to an Iranian audience that
has never been given an opportunity to know Him nor to recognize Him as
a significant Iranian Whose ideas, character, writings, and talks have
profoundly influenced both notables and ordinary people alike.
Please
make the broadcast information above available to the Iranian friends
in your community at your earliest opportunity, asking them to share it
with their families and acquaintances
so that this inspiring story will be seen as widely as possible in Iran
and in Iranian circles abroad.
With loving Bahá’í greetings,
Kenneth E. Bowers
Secretary
National Spiritual Assembly of the
Bahá'ís of the United States
