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*UPDATE, 1/11/2012* Education Under Fire DVD kits are now for sale through the Baha’i Distribution Service. As a part of this package, you will receive the documentary and five copies of the open letter regarding the Iranian government’s attack on the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education co-authored by Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Desmond Tutu and President of [...]
It’s protection of human rights, elimination of prejudice, upholding equality of women and men. It’s finding opportunities to apply spiritual principles at the grass roots to move cultural attitudes away from corruption and dishonesty. It’s offering a consultative option for resolving disputes in a world more familiar with an adversarial approach. These are some of [...]
Leva writes about the extraordinary characteristics of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, the son of Baha’u’llah, Founder of the Baha’i Faith, in her Baha’i Blog entry (originally posted in Common Questions). “‘Abdu’l-Bahá was a global revolutionary. “How one man, in a lifetime lived mostly in exile and imprisonment, managed to affect so many lives around him and lead a [...]
The next holy day event at the Baha’i House of Worship will be held at 1 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 28, with a special devotional program commemorating the Ascension of Abdu’l-Baha, who died at his home in Haifa, Israel, at approximately 1 a.m. on Nov. 28, 1921, at age 77.
Baha’is will commemorate the Day of the Covenant on Nov. 25, and the Ascension of Abdu’l-Baha on Nov. 28.
Getting to the heart and soul of Thanksgiving
At this season we reflect on the spiritual significance of thanksgiving with the following words of Abdu’l-Baha, son of Baha’u’llah, Founder of the Baha’i Faith. Abdu’l-Baha shared these thoughts when he visited the United States in 1912: “Thankfulness is of various kinds. There is a verbal thanksgiving which is confined to a mere utterance of [...]
The Baha’i year consists of 19 months of 19 days each. The months are named after the attributes of God. Each Baha’i community holds a Nineteen Day Feast on the first day of each Baha’i month. The Feast has spiritual, administrative and social functions and is the primary locus of fellowship and community decision-making in [...]
Natalie Peach in Baha’i Blog shares a Baha’i perspective on “true” happiness. Read the full story
The Climate Ethics Campaign is aiming for 1,000 endorsements of its new climate change statement by November 30th, the day the campaign plans to officially release and circulate the statement on Capitol Hill. A representative of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha‘is of the United States recently endorsed the statement, titled “Statement of Our Nation’s Moral Obligation to Address Climate Change”
World-famous composer and arranger Russ Garcia died peacefully at his Kerikeri home on Sunday, November 20, 2011 at the age of 95. Garcia, a member of the Baha’i Faith, wrote a wide variety of music for screen, stage and broadcast. Read the obituary from the Baha’i World News Service [...]
In this podcast from the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran the persecution of the Baha’i community is examined through interviews with David Hoffman and Jeff Kaufman, the executive producer and director of the film “Education Under Fire,” a new documentary that profiles an unofficial school that called the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education [...]
Betty Chong-Gerbracht of Bothell, Washington, Bahá’í children’s class coordinator for her cluster of local communities, shares how a thriving children’s class in an apartment complex began and what she has learned from the experience. After months of [visiting] parents and children [and inviting them] to start children’s classes in their homes, and a couple of [...]
Baha’is are still learning about the unique role of tutors in the life of our local communities: not just to facilitate learning in study circles, but also to accompany those circles’ participants in acts of service. That “learning by doing” approach is what makes local tutor gatherings — meetings of people who have been serving [...]
The ‘Irfán Colloquia present several scholarly gatherings each year in various countries and in various languages, organized under the auspices of the National Spiritual Assemblies of the countries where they are held and assisted by the Office of Persian-American Affairs of the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States. ‘Irfán Colloquia include presentations on systematic [...]
In 2010 the Spiritual Assembly of Brookhaven, New York, one of eight Assemblies on Long Island, found itself suddenly and unexpectedly faced with the job of hosting Unit Convention. Getting immediately into gear, the one-person planning team was dismayed to find out that, according to the national website, fewer than 25 percent of eligible Baha’is [...]
Baha’is in Key West, Florida, know the event’s not the thing, it’s part of a process of community building. It’s amazing, though, how the power of music has helped move that process along at the southernmost tip of the continental U.S. Many sectors of Key West rallied around a weekend of activities in mid-November that [...]
National Teaching Office Here are just two of the many messages that seeker response representatives receive when interested souls contacted the Bahá’í Faith through www.bahai.us: By their fruits you will know them This inspirational story comes from a new Bahá’í who registered her declaration of faith online. Melissa, in her own words, expresses how the [...]
This time it was different. This time a mother in the neighborhood reached out to other moms in her Vienna, Virginia, neighborhood. That’s how a Baha’i children’s class with seven children formed this fall in a Vienna apartment complex and has thrived. Visits to the neighborhood by Baha’is from Vienna and other Fairfax County towns [...]
“Apartments. Kids. Children’s classes!” That was the progression of Elyce Nasseri’s thoughts as the Missouri City, Texas, Baha’i retrieved her beagle from the people who had found Jasmine-dog wandering. The complex was one where the Baha’is had wished to make friends. Management had not allowed them to visit door to door, but now a golden [...]
In this latest podcast Warren Odess-Gillett interviews Homa Tavangar, author of Growing Up Global: Raising Children to Be At Home in the World.
Calling all media storytellers, writers, bloggers, photographers, and Public Information Officers U.S. Baha’i Media Services and the Office of Communications invite you to participate in a “Media Boot Camp” at the Social and Economic Development Conference in Orlando, FL from December 17 – 20, 2011. This boot camp will help you hone your skills as [...]
In InCultureParent, a Magazine For Parents Raising Little Global Citizens, Sandra Lynn Hutchison writes about the Baha’i perspective of death and notes effective ways of discussing this issue with children. Read the full story
The latest entry on Baha’i Thought highlights the recent screening of the 30-minute documentary, Education Under Fire, at Wheelock College on November 12th, 2011.
In her latest blog entry, Jackee Batanda highlights the recent screening of the 30-minute documentary, Education Under Fire, at MIT’s Stata Center on November 11th, 2011. Read the full story
* Original story as published by the Baha’i World News Service On November 12, Baha’is around the globe will celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Baha’u’llah, the founder of the Baha’i Faith. Gatherings are held in thousands of localities – in homes, at public facilities, at local and national Baha’i centers, and at Baha’i [...]
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