Upcoming Friends of Persian Culture conference
This year’s event will be held from August 28th to August 31st in Chicago.
Institutions
Message from the National Spiritual Assembly to the Bahá’ís of Canada – 31 January 2020
“In the final months of the Plan, we have no doubt that Canada’s goal of establishing an intensive programme of growth in 119 clusters will be won. Tens of those clusters will be working with the larger numbers that begin to affect the culture, the very spirit of a place.”
Message regarding developments in the construction of the Shrine of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
The National Spiritual Assembly is delighted to share the following news from a letter…written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice, about the progress that has been made in the construction of the Shrine of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.
Message from the National Spiritual Assembly regarding Canada’s support of the Continental Fund
“…Shoghi Effendi has written that ‘the progress and execution of spiritual activities’ is ‘conditioned upon material means’. Thus, your contributions both help sustain the activities and channel financial resources in ways that promote the well-being of humanity.”
Message from the Universal House of Justice to the Bahá’ís of the World – 8 November 2019
“The measure of what you have achieved—not only in the last few weeks, but during a two-year period of remarkable advance now brought to a stunning climax—compels us to address you who are the visible hosts of a movement that has proved itself irrepressible.”
Reporting bicentenary activities
“[T]he National Spiritual Assembly wishes to capture, however inadequately, the inspiring ways in which the Canadian community has marked this momentous period in our history”
The passing of ‘Ali Nakhjavani
“We mourn the loss of an extraordinary figure who leaves behind a distinguished legacy of uninterrupted service to the Cause of God.”
Message from the Universal House of Justice marking the bicentenary of the Birth of the Báb
“…[L]ike a spring storm, the Báb came to purge and purify, to uproot the withered and spent customs of a wayward age, and to wash away the obscuring dust from the eyes of those blinded by illusion.”
Message to Canada’s Bahá’ís and those at their sides in the field of service
“How might each team, each family, each community celebrate the Holy Days themselves in settings small and large, as part of the worldwide wave that will encircle the planet?”
Design for the Shrine of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
“The structure that is envisaged in the design seeks to honour ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s unique position as the Centre of the Covenant, and to reflect at once His lofty station and His humility.”
Message from the National Spiritual Assembly to the Bahá’ís of Canada – 7 September 2019
“More and more, the believers are describing how the sweetness of teaching is becoming a way of life. More and more, they are finding in their receptive friends, families and new acquaintances the kindred spirits with whom they will walk a path of service.”
