Features
Registration website for youth conferences launches
The registration website for the youth conferences that will take place in Canada this summer has launched: http://conf2014.ca. There will be ten youth conferences across the country, in Vancouver, Victoria, and Kelowna B.C.; Calgary, Alta.; Saskatoon, Sask., Toronto, Waterloo, and Ottawa, Ont.; Montreal, Que.; and Halifax, N.S.
A group from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba prepares to accompany friends of all ages in service
A group from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba came together in late May to prepare for the upcoming youth conferences in the region and to learn to accompany friends of all ages in service to their communities.
Reflections on growth in Regina, Saskatchewan
Here is an account that describes the process of starting a programme of growth in Saskatoon, Sask. and how the friendships built among the friends contributed to this aim:
Drawing of Quebec institute training participants
This drawing by Adrian Brulé of Val-D’Or, in Abitibi, Que., is of 20 francophone youth between the ages of 14 to 16 who studied the junior youth text Power of the Holy Spirit during a regional camp in Quebec in January.
‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s travels to Egypt and the West
During the August 2010 to December 2013 centenary of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s travels to Egypt and the West, Bahá’í Canada produced a series of 12 articles which recounted some of the stories from that “glorious chapter” [1] of Bahá’í history, referred to some other significant historical events of that time, and suggested some possible links with the work of the Bahá’í community today.
Reflection seminars for the junior youth programme in Vancouver and Toronto
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.
Delegates at Canada’s National Convention focus on oneness
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.
Construction, worship and service
“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.
Prominent individuals inside and outside Iran speak out on anniversary of arrest of Yarán
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.
Participants at regional gathering consult about creating mutually supportive environments
“The gathering was a beautiful display of young and old working shoulder to shoulder,” one participant commented.
