From Ballarat to Townsville, Coonamble to Bendigo, Broken Hill to Coffs Harbour, rural and regional towns around our country are among the hundreds of communities home to Iranian Bahá’ís working alongside Bahá’ís and their friends of all backgrounds to build vibrant communities founded on the faith’s message of unity. But here’s the thing: if we were in Iran, where the Bahá’ís are the largest non-Muslim religious minority, we would be persecuted for promoting such a message. We would have our properties burned to the ground. We would be denied access to an education and have our businesses closed. We would have our cemeteries desecrated.
