Opportunities to Engage
Attend a Baha’i conference or retreat center for an afternoon or a weekend. Find a family-friendly summer or winter camp near you. Take an online course or meet Baha’is through a video chat. Browse the calendar below for these and other opportunities to engage that are open to everyone.
FIND ACTIVITIES NEAR YOU
Most Baha’i community activities—prayer gatherings, study circles, activities for children and teens—take place in homes and community centers in towns and cities across the United States.
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12:30 pm
Virtual Devotions
Staff members from the Baha’i House of worship are hosting daily virtual devotional programs at 12:30 p.m. Each session begins with a brief planned program of prayers and then participants from around the world are invited to share their own prayers and songs. (Visit http://www.bahaiprayers.org/) Everyone is welcome to attend and share scripture or songs from
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Filmmakers Jeff Kaufman and Marcia Ross discuss ‘NASRIN’
Visit Bahai.chat soon to register. Filmed in Iran by women and men who risked arrest to make this film. NASRIN is an immersive portrait of one of the world’s most courageous human rights activists and political prisoners, Nasrin Sotoudeh, a leader of Iran’s remarkably resilient women’s rights movement and a courageous champion of of the
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The Pandemic as a Portal: Race, Caste, and New Approaches to Constructive Resilience
The Pandemic as a Portal: Race, Caste, and New Approaches to Constructive Resilience Dr. Angelita Reyes' presentation focuses on new approaches to “constructive resilience” for a reckoning with racism because we are again and again being summoned—powerfully forced—to deal with what Shoghi Effendi tells us is “the most challenging and vital issue” in American society.
Find out more »About the Bahá’í Calendar and Holy Days
The Baha’i Faith has its own calendar, called the Badí’ Calendar. It is a solar calendar consisting of 19 months of 19 days each (361 days), plus “Intercalary Days” (four in ordinary years and five in leap years) to adjust the calendar to the solar year. The days and months are named after the attributes of God. The Nineteen Day Feast, the primary community gathering for Baha’is in each town and city, is held on the first day of each Baha’i month. Eleven Holy Days mark significant events in Baha’i history.
