LONDON, United Kingdom, 23 March 2007 (BWNS) — Baha’is around the world celebrated their new year this week, with those in Vietnam holding a special ceremony to mark the government’s issuing a certificate of operation for their activities.

In London, the All-Party Parliamentary Friends of the Baha’is hosted a reception at the House of Parliament. British Prime Minister Tony Blair sent a message referring to the “unique contribution” of the Baha’i community.

“The words of your founder, that ‘the earth is but one country and mankind its citizens,’ have perhaps an even greater resonance in 2007 than ever before,” Mr. Blair wrote. “The universal challenges of climate change, and its potentially disastrous impact on millions of people across the globe, remind us forcefully that we are all fellow citizens of the world, all sharing in its destiny.

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