Index for the July-September issue of ONE COUNTRY (Volume 10, Issue 2)

After months of preliminaries, work begins on a "Millennium NGO Forum"

To be held in conjunction with the United Nations scheduled “Millennium Summit” in the year 2000, the proposed gathering would seek to lobby world leaders and highlight the importance of world civil society.

NGOs and governments form a new coalition to promote religious tolerance

Some 200 representatives from various governments, non-governmental organizations and religious communities call for greater efforts to promote freedom of religion and belief, urging specifically that the UN office charged with monitoring religious intolerance be strengthened.

In Iran, one Bahá’í is executed and two more are sentenced to death, raising sharp doubts about the new Government’s human rights policies

In another ominous sign, government officers in fourteen cities arrested 32 Bahá’í educators in late September-early October.

In Guyana, the use of moral “generative themes” propels a project for youth

“On the Wings of Words” combines efforts across several theme areas – literacy, moral education, and the use of mass media to recruit volunteers – to obtain a greater synergy for success.

Perspective: New Age, New Morals, New Leaders

The new paradigm for leadership means that leaders today must be chiefly concerned with giving service to their community -- rather than advancing their own ideas, careers or sense of privilege.

Review: Using logic in the search for supreme values

Love, Power and Justice: the Dynamics of Authentic Morality By William S. Hatcher Bahá’í Publishing Trust Wilmette, Illinois

A new "proof" of God's existence?

In Love, Power and Justice: the Dynamics of Authentic Morality, as well as in several earlier works, Dr. William S. Hatcher outlines a simple logical proof for the existence of God, an accomplishment made possible, he said, by reexamining a classic proof of God offered by the great Muslim philosopher Avicenna (ibn Sina, 980-1037) and applying to it some new logical tools derived from recent developments in mathematics.