French prayer book now available in ePub and Mobi formats
A selection of 292 prayers by Bahá’u’lláh, the Báb, and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá.
For compelling personal reasons, Mr. Khumukcham Satish Meetei and Mr. Garth Pollock have asked to be relieved of their responsibilities as members of the Continental Boards of Counsellors in Asia and in the Americas, respectively.
The 38th annual Association for Bahá’í Studies-North America conference (ABS) – entitled “Scholarship and the Life of Society” and held from 7 to 10 August – included new experimental features as part of an effort to reimagine the conference in line with guidance from the Universal House of Justice last year.
The National Spiritual Assembly recently recommended that all friends refresh their study of the Universal House of Justice’s 2 March 2013 letter to the Bahá’ís of Iran “in light of the conflicts emerging in different parts of the world and their devastating consequences.”
Eight of the ten youth conferences called by the National Spiritual Assembly to take place across Canada this summer have been held in Halifax, N.S., Saskatoon, Sask., Victoria, B.C., Calgary, Alta., Montreal, Que., Waterloo, Ont., Kelowna and Vancouver, B.C. A youth conference in Ottawa, Ont. will take place this weekend, and a conference in Toronto will take place 22 to 24 August.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, a branch of the Iranian military, has resumed its destruction of a Bahá’í cemetery in Shíráz in order to make way for a sports and cultural complex.
From the Universal House of Justice to the Bahá’ís of the World, 1 August 2014.
Here is a gallery of photos of community building activities across the country that various friends have been inspired to share through social media.
This past weekend, youth gathered in Montreal, Que. and Calgary, Alta. reflected on how the peoples of the world could create a “new way of life, a new civilization, a new model, something completely different” from what they have now.
“During every fast, I ardently prayed for the end of the persecution of the believers in Iran. And every year passed, and the persecution continued.”
Here are some reflections from participants in the Vancouver Island youth conference which took place from 11 to 13 July.