In August more than one thousand attendees celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Green Lake Baha'i Conference in Wisconsin

Last night, Rainn Wilson, "a mostly comic character actor from a beloved TV sitcom" and active member of the Baha'i Faith, was interviewed on ABC's Nightline television news program about the Baha'i Faith and his website, "Soul Pancake."

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed, by a vote of 407-2, a resolution condemning the government of Iran for “state-sponsored persecution of its Baha'i minority and its continued violation of the International Covenants on Human Rights.”

The Bab (1819-1850) was the Prophet-Herald of the Baha'i Faith, whose mission was to proclaim the imminent arrival of "Him Whom God shall make manifest," namely Baha'u'llah (1817-1892), the Founder of the Baha'i Faith. (The title Bab means "the Gate" in Arabic.)

On October 1, 2009, Baha'is attended a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing titled, “Violence Against Women: Global Costs and Consequences.” 

Kevin Locke, world-renowned Native American performer and educator, and member of the Baha'i community, has won a Native American Music Award (Nammy) in the Record of the Year category for his latest recording, Earth Gift.

In 1893, in the city of Chicago,  a "World's Parliament of Religions" was held as an auxiliary event in conjunction with the World's Columbian Exhibition (World's Fair). This event marked the first official gathering of representatives from eastern and western religions and is considered the birthplace of formal interreligious dialogue.
 

For the last 40 years, Baha'is in the Washington, D.C., area have been hosting a birthday celebration, open to the public, for the most important person in their lives -- Baha’u’llah, Founder of the Baha'i Faith, who was born on Nov. 12, 1817, in Tehran, Persia (now Iran).

In 2005, in Encino, Calif., Holiday Reinhorn (fiction writer and wife of actor Rainn Wilson) led her first fireside (introductory presentation on the Baha'i Faith), where she answered the question, "How did you go from being a person who was very uncomfortable about discussions of spiritual faith, a person who wasn’t quite sure what to think when it came to God—to a person who just joined the Baha’i Faith?"

This year’s commemoration of Universal Children’s Day, on November 20, also marks the 20th anniversary of the Campaign for U.S. Ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and 20 years of effort by the United Nations to give the world's children protected status through an inclusive, legally-binding human rights treaty.