Persian conference in Acuto, Italy
The Anjomane Motaleate Farsi Committee is pleased to announce its fifth Persian-language event
“The time of sojourn was limited to a number of days, but the results in the future are inexhaustible.”
These letters give insight into the love that ‘Abdu’l-Bahá showered upon the Maxwell family, his close attention to the city of Montreal, and how this family expressed their love for ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in service to the Cause.
This description of the lives of the members of the Maxwell family was originally published on “Arise in His Name,” a website of the National Spiritual Assembly designed to commemorate the centenary of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá visit to Canada. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá visited Montreal from 30 August to 9 September 1912, and stayed for a period in the Maxwell home, which was later designated a Bahá’í Shrine.
Here is an itinerary of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s time in Montreal, Que. along with links to some of the talks he gave, based on an account of May Maxwell and first published on the “Arise in His Name” website. He visited Montreal from 30 August to 9 September 1912.
A number of youth gatherings and conferences are taking place this summer, with the support of Regional Councils and local teams, bringing hundreds of youth together across the country to discuss matters of spiritual import.
We, the delegates of 67th Canadian Bahá’í National Convention, send our deepest love and appreciation to the Universal House of Justice for blessing and guiding the friends worldwide with its Ridván message of 2015.
A global campaign to call attention to the long and unjust imprisonment of seven Bahá’í leaders spawned a worldwide outcry on the seventh anniversary of their arrest.
This issue constitutes an attempt to begin to explore this vast theme: “strengthening the devotional character of the community.”
The eighth in a series of newsreels documenting the construction of the Bahá’í House of Worship for South America has been released and can be viewed online in Spanish, English and Portuguese.
In anticipation of the upcoming hard copy issue of Bahá’í Canada, “Enhancing the Devotional Character of the Community,” here is a video and transcript of Mr. ‘Ali Nakhjaváni’s talk on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s visit to Montreal.