Message regarding pilgrimage and brief visits to the Holy Land

17 January 2024 / 18 Honour 180

All Local Spiritual Assemblies
All Regional Bahá’í Councils
All Registered Groups

Dear Bahá’í Friends,

We hasten to share with you the following message of today’s date, received from the Department of the Secretariat of the Universal House of Justice, addressed to all National Spiritual Assemblies.  Kindly arrange for its wide distribution in your communities.

“The Universal House of Justice has asked us to convey that, while the situation in the Holy Land remains unsettled, pilgrims will be welcomed from 12 February 2024 and that, with immediate effect, friends may once again make requests to come on brief visits to pray in the Sacred Shrines; kindly share this information with the members of your community.

“The friends who wish to come at the present time are asked to give careful consideration to the travel advice of their respective governments and to exercise their own judgement regarding when to come.  For the time being, believers are asked not to extend the length of their stay in the Holy Land beyond the period required to make their visit to the Bahá’í World Centre.”

With loving Bahá’í greetings,
Karen McKye, Secretary