
Upcoming Friends of Persian Culture conference
This year’s event will be held from August 28th to August 31st in Chicago.
Here is a translation of the 13 May message from the Universal House of Justice to the Bahá’ís of Iran: 13 May Here is a link to the Persian message: 13 May [Persian]
“Construction, Worship and Service,” the fifth in a series of video newsreels showing the progress of the construction of the House of Worship in Santiago, Chile, is available in English and Spanish on the official website.
Influential Iranian human rights activists, journalists, and one prominent religious leader gather in an unprecedented show of solidarity to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the imprisonment of the former members of the Yarán.
The National Spiritual Assembly’s annual report makes use of words, statistics and pictures to describe the progress that has been achieved this year in the thematic areas of “Expansion and consolidation,” “Enhancing institutional capacity,” and “Involvement in the life of society.”
“The gathering was a beautiful display of young and old working shoulder to shoulder,” one participant commented.
Canada’s ambassador for Religious Freedom, Andrew Bennett, tweeted this Ridván greeting to Bahá’ís in late April:
We, the delegates at the sixty-sixth Canadian National Convention have had the bounty of electing our beloved National Spiritual Assembly, the ninth pillar of the Supreme Body of the Faith. We bow down before the Blessed Beauty and pledge to rededicate ourselves to the imperatives of the remaining two years of the Five Year Plan.
It was with great joy that the National Assembly approached this Convention, eager for the opportunity to consult with you who represent such a cross-section of the Bahá’í community, about the momentous developments of the past year.
The Board of Trustees of Huqúqu’lláh address the National Convention on the spiritual and practical aspects of the law of the Right of God.
The newly elected members of the National Spiritual Assembly, called to serve for the coming year, are: (back, left to right): Karen McKye, Mehran Anvari, Deloria Bighorn, Enayat Rawhani and Susanne Tamás; (Front, left to right): Hoda Farahmandpour, Judy Filson, Ciprian Jauca and Élizabeth Wright. The National Assembly’s Chairman is Ms. Bighorn; Vice-Chairman, Ms. Wright; Secretary, […]