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Read some recent articles from publications in the Chicago area about the Baha’i Faith, the Baha’i House of Worship and the centenary of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’s visit to America: Wilmette Life: ‘Centenary events set for Baha’i House of Worship in Wilmette’. 4/17/2012 Wilmette-Kenilworth Patch: ‘Baha’i House of Worship celebrates 100th anniversary‘. 4/20/2012 Chicago Sun-Times: ‘Celebration honors centennial of Baha’i [...]
What makes the Festival of Ridvan, celebrated April 21 to May 2, the holiest of days for Baha’is? It commemorates the anniversary of Baha’u’llah’s declaration in 1863 that He was the Promised One of all earlier religions.
Baha’i members of the Religion Communicators Council (RCC) have again been recognized by RCC for their works in various media categories. The DeRose-Hinkhouse Award reception was held in Philadelphia, Pa., April 12, 2012, in conjunction with RCC’s annual national convention. The award recognizes the achievements of RCC members who demonstrate excellence as religion communicators. Bonnie [...]
In 1912, Abdu’l-Baha, the son of the Founder of the Baha’i Faith and the leader of the Baha’i Faith at that time, traveled across America with an inspiring message of America’s spiritual destiny: to lead the way toward world peace, advance women’s rights, abolish racism, and moderate extremes of wealth and poverty. Adorned with flowing [...]
At Christmastime and other Christian holidays, Baha’is are often asked what their religion has to say about Jesus Christ.
CBS Religion & Culture visited the Baha’i House of Worship in Wilmette, Ill. in March to interview Baha’is about their Faith. Watch the program What They Believe: Hindus, Zoroastrians, Bahá’ís Check their Facebook page for a list of stations, dates and times when this program will air on your local CBS affiliate. (If you don’t see a listing for your area, please [...]
For Baha’is, the New Year comes at a perfect time – March 21 –the vernal equinox, which marks the first day of spring and the end of the Baha’i Faith’s annual Nineteen Day Fast.
Follow Nineteen Days as they share beautiful quotations and photos every day during the nineteen day Baha’i Fast.
From sunset Feb. 25 to sunset March 1, Baha’is will be exchanging gifts, getting together with friends and family, and engaging in acts of charity – activities that characterize the festival of Ayyam-i-Ha.
Dr. Cornel West, a philosopher and Princeton professor of African American Studies and Religion and a staunch defender of rights and freedoms for all people, learned about the Baha’i Faith through his race unity work and befriending Baha’is such as jazz maestro Dizzy Gillespie. In this second video interview, Dr. West speaks on the Baha’i perspective [...]
Registration is open for the sixth annual Bahá’í Choral Music Festival, to be held May 24–27 in Wilmette and Evanston, Illinois, and dozens of people from several countries have already registered. Two devotional concerts by a massed choir on Sunday, May 27, will culminate the festival, and in recent years those concerts have drawn more [...]
In this interview with The Huntville Times, Geoffrey Tyson, general manager of the Education Under Fire campaign, notes how Baha’is in Iran continue to be “officially barred from many professional jobs – and from studying at the colleges and universities that would prepare them for those jobs.” “This is not even about religious freedom so much [...]
In Charleston, South Carolina, over 100 particiapnts and thousands of attendees, showed up for the 40th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade, sponsored by the YWCA of Greater Charleston. Over twenty Baha’is from the Tri-County area gathered together to ride on a float which included a quote from [...]
For the past 9 years, the Baha’is of Orange County West, Fla. have been participating in this popular Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in the town of Eatonville. This year, 22 Baha’is participated, even 3 year old Nura enjoyed handing out flyers with quotes from [...]
Hundreds of Baha’i communities throughout the United States observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day by helping to organize public events to commemorate the great, slain civil rights leader.
Bahais are urged to “Consort with the followers of all religions in a spirit of friendliness and fellowship.” One way they do this is through the commemoration of World Religion Day — Sunday, January 16.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in the United States, roughly 13 to 17% of Americans (approximately 35.9 million adults and 12.9 million children) are living below the federal poverty line at any given point in time, and roughly 40% fall below the poverty line at some point within a 10-year time span. To bring [...]
Environmental Representative for the U.S. Baha’is Delivers Keynote Address at the 15th Annual International Environment Forum in Tasmania, Australia. (Scroll down for bonus TIMELINE) When Peter Adriance, NGO Environmental Liaison for the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of the United States, accepted to give the keynote address at a global environment conference focused on [...]
This year marks the 61st anniversary of the establishment of Human Rights Day by the United Nations in 1950. The annual date chosen for this commemoration was December 10 which honors the adoption and proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 – the first ever global enunciation of human rights. The promotion [...]
Iran’s dismal human rights record against women, labor and minority religions including the Baha’i Faith will be spotlighted at a Human Rights Day conference at Wilmette’s Baha’i Temple, 1 to 4 p. m., Saturday, Dec. 10th. Sponsored by Amnesty International USA and Chicagoland Baha’i assemblies, national experts will outline the denial of basic freedoms in [...]
Canadian Senator Romeo Dallaire, the former UN peacekeeping force commander who tried to stop the 1990s genocide in Rwanda, has said that Iran’s current actions against Baha’is remind him of what he witnessed in Africa. Read the full story from Baha’i World News Service
*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 [...]
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.
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