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Tag "Disability"

tag name: Disability type: General
web link: Disability
variations: Handicap
references: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability; bahai9.com/wiki/Disability; bahaipedia.org/Disability; bahaiquotes.com/subject/disability; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q=Disability
related tags: Aging; Health and healing; Health challenges, Mental and physical
referring tags: Bahá'í Service for the Blind (USA); Committee for Service to the Blindness (United Kingdom)

"Disability" appears in:

1.   from the main catalog (11 results; less)

  1. Paul Booth. Bahá'í's View of Disability, A (1999).
  2. W. G. Huxtable. Conqueror for St. Helena, A: A Tribute to Catherine Huxtable (1974-09). Huxtable, member of the LSA of Toronto, traveled from Canada to fulfil various pioneering goals, all while suffering from muscular dystrophy.
  3. Phyllis K. Peterson. Creating Intimacy: In the Community and With the Seeker (1998). On how intimacy in the Bahá'í community can be created, using Bahá’í scriptures as guideline. We hunger for intimacy, which is a prerequisite for friendship and a key principle in teaching. Cases drawn from experiences of people who feel psychically hurt.
  4. Marzieh Gail. Dawn over Mount Hira and Other Essays (1976). A collection of essays on various topics of interest to Bahá'í studies and history. Most of these were first published in Star of the West and World Order between 1929 and 1971.
  5. Universal House of Justice. Exemption from Obligatory Prayer for the Sick (2000-03-27).
  6. Universal House of Justice. Handicapped facilities at the Bahá'í World Center pilgrimage sites (2000-02-21). Two letters giving an overview of wheelchair access to various points on pilgrimage tours.
  7. Frances Mezei, comp. Journey of Courage: From Disability to Spiritual Ability (2023). The purpose of this compilation is to offer an approach to transform our limitations and attitudes when dealing with our disabilities, health conditions, and the ageing process. Includes updated Guidelines for Improving Accessibility.
  8. May Khadem. Lessons in Leadership (2018). A personal journey of learning about leadership; widely shared false assumptions have led many off-course in addressing the challenges in the fight against blindness, and other public health concerns.
  9. Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi, Universal House of Justice. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Australia, comp. Light and Mercy: Mental Health and Tests and Difficulties (2021). The physical and mental impact of the continuing pandemic is evident around us, and the members of the Baha’i community are not immune. This publication will be of assistance and support to the friends both individually and collectively.
  10. Jack McLean. Love That Could Not Wait, A: The Remarkable Story of Knights of Baha'u'llah Catherine Heward Huxtable and Clifford Huxtable (2016). The story of the Canadian Knights of Bahá'u'lláh, Catherine Heward Huxtable and husband Cliff Huxtable, who opened the southern Gulf Islands of British Columbia to the Bahá'í Faith in October, 1959.
  11. Universal House of Justice. Physical disability preventing genuflections of Long Obligatory Prayer (2000-10-08). How can a believer with physical disabilities say the Long Obligatory Prayer, which requires genuflections. Preceded by original question asked.

2.   from the Chronology (2 results; less)

  1. 1952-00-00 — The establishment of the Bahá'í Service for the Blind and the Physically Handicapped as a committee of the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States. Its purpose is to provide the literature of the Faith in mediums which can be used by those individuals whose physical or mental handicaps prevent them from using normal print. [website]
  2. 1981-11-26
      The Comunicación Intercambio y Radiodifusión Bahá'í para America Latina y el Caribe (CIRBAL) was established by the Universal House of Justice to promote the development of Bahá'í radio and mass media activities in Latin America. [BW19:59]
    • The special Committee for Service to the Blind, located in the United Kingdom, was a clearing house and production and distribution centre for materials both on tape and in Braille; and CIRBAL (Centro para Intercambio Radiofonico Baha'i de America Latins), among its other functions, serves as a clearing house for tapes, videotapes, script and other materials suitable for use via radio and television. Its mandated area is South and Central America and the Caribbean. [BW18p115, 117]
 
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