Index for the July-September 2005 issue of ONE COUNTRY (Volume 17, Issue 2)(Click here for a PDF file of the printed issue)
In Guyana, young people take the lead in an effort to avoid risky behaviors
Innovative and popular, Youth Can Move the World offers leadership training for young people to help them avoid alcohol and drug abuse, HIV/AIDS, and other social problems.At the UN, world leaders renew promises
World leaders renewed their five-year-old promise to halve global poverty rates, ensure education for all, and sharply reduce HIV/AIDS and other diseases — and also took new steps towards reforming the United Nations — at the 2005 World Summit in September.In Iran, more arrests and another year without college for Bahá'í youth
Persecution against the Bahá'ís of Iran has continued to escalate in recent months, with fresh arrests in July, August, and September, and the arrival of another school year in which Bahá'í students are denied access to university.At Green Acre, the first “modern” peace treaty is commemorated
According to some historians, the 1905 Russo-Japanese War was the first truly modern war, involving as it did both the telegraph and the telephone, along with machine guns, barbed wire, illuminating star shells, mine fields, advanced torpedoes, and armored battleships.Bahá'í scholars explore links between science and religion
The relationship between science and religion is gathering increasing attention around the world, from research about the power of prayer to heal to the impact of new technologies on traditional societies.David S. Ruhe, former member of the Universal House of Justice, passes away
Dr. David S. Ruhe, former member of the Universal House of Justice, the international governing council of the Bahá'í Faith, died on 6 September 2005 near his home in Newburgh , New York , following a stroke in mid-August. He was 91.Perspective: The Search for Values in an Age of Transition
In 1945, the founding of the United Nations gave a war-weary world a vision of what was possible in the arena of international cooperation and set a new standard by which to guide diverse peoples and nations towards a peaceful coexistence. Sixty years later, the questions that fuelled the San Francisco Conference assert themselves anew: Why have the current systems of governance failed to provide for the security, prosperity, and well-being of the world's people?Review: A mirror to our own time
Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality
By Leigh Eric Schmidt
Harper Collins
New York