Need to nurture
Training of community torchbearers should commence at the age of 10, believes Ervad Kayomarz Sidhwa, the new president of the Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America
Parinaz Gandhi
The Congress organizers were hoping to propel resurgence but they had not anticipated such a hunger for convergence. Within three hours of opening registrations in June 2024 for the 18th North American Zoroastrian Congress (NAZC) in Houston six months later, they had reached their maximum capacity of 725. Many could have been the reasons for "the mad rush,” states Ervad Kayomarz Sidhwa, co-chair of the Congress and the 10th president of the Federation of Zoroastrian Associations of North America (FEZANA), the first priest to head the USA and Canada based body.
"The first time we had to close registration was within......
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