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Reflection seminars for the junior youth programme in Vancouver and Toronto

Reflection seminars for the junior youth programme in Vancouver and Toronto

Posted: 2014/05/22

Canada is home to two learning sites for the junior youth spiritual empowerment programme, in Toronto and Vancouver. These communities will soon be welcoming friends from clusters across Canada and the United States who are involved in the coordination of the junior youth programme. Toronto’s seminar is taking place from 21 to 26 May and Vancouver’s from 6 to 15 June.

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Delegates at Canada’s National Convention focus on oneness

Delegates at Canada’s National Convention focus on oneness

Posted: 2014/05/22

The 157 delegates at Canada’s 66th National Convention – held in late April at the Toronto Bahá’í Centre – have a variety of life experiences and come from a diversity of places.

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Construction, worship and service

Construction, worship and service

Posted: 2014/05/17

“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.

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Prominent individuals inside and outside Iran speak out on anniversary of arrest of Yarán

Prominent individuals inside and outside Iran speak out on anniversary of arrest of Yarán

Posted: 2014/05/16

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.

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Participants at regional gathering consult about creating mutually supportive environments

Participants at regional gathering consult about creating mutually supportive environments

Posted: 2014/05/15

“The gathering was a beautiful display of young and old working shoulder to shoulder,” one participant commented.

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Letter to the Universal House of Justice from the National Convention

Letter to the Universal House of Justice from the National Convention

Posted: 2014/05/13

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.

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Films capture insights from the 114 youth conferences

Films capture insights from the 114 youth conferences

Posted: 2014/02/14

The Bahá’í World News Service recently posted a series of 10 short films, entitled To Serve Humanity,which capture insights from a few of the more than 80,000 youth around the world who attended the 114 youth conferences called by the Universal House of Justice. The films show the ways in which young people can contribute to […]

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Bahá’u’lláh’s Marriage Law

Bahá’u’lláh’s Marriage Law

Posted: 2014/01/19

“When, therefore, the people of Bahá undertake to marry, the union must be a true relationship, a spiritual coming together as well as a physical one,

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Youth Conference fundraiser in Montreal

Youth Conference fundraiser in Montreal

Posted: 2014/01/17

In late December, a group of youth studying Book 5 and their tutors organized a fundraising dinner on the West Island of Montreal to help recuperate the costs of the three youth conferences in Canada, in response to the call from the National Spiritual Assembly.

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Seven imprisoned former members of Yarán send letter to Iranian president

Seven imprisoned former members of Yarán send letter to Iranian president

Posted: 2013/12/18

The seven imprisoned former members of the Yarán – a group that looked after the affairs of the Bahá’í community in Iran – wrote a letter in mid-December to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, commenting on his proposed “Charter of Citizens Rights.”

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