To Light A Candle–a film about the Baha’is in Iran defying religious persecution through non-violent resistance and educating their youth—will be shown at the First Congregational Church in Grand Marais at 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, March 29, 2015.
The Baha’is are a religious minority in Iran. They are systematically imprisoned, tortured and killed by the Iranian government. The Islamic regime bans the Baha’is to study or teach in Iranian universities.
But the Baha’is do teach, and they do study. Since 1987 the Baha’is started the Bahá’í Institute for Higher Education, an underground university with hundreds of students in Iran, and dozens of teachers in Iran and around the world.
Through powerful interviews, exclusive secret footage shot by citizen journalists, rare archival material and dramatic letters written by a Baha’i prisoner currently in jail in Iran, To Light a Candle shows how a small minority has defied the brutal systematic religious persecution through non-violent resistance and educating their youth.
The film by Maziar Bahari premiered at Stanford University in May 2014. To learn more about the film or the cause of the Baha’is, visit the website: www.educationisnotacrime.me.
The film screening is free and open to the public. The church is located at 300 West 2nd Street in Grand Marais.
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