Upcoming Friends of Persian Culture conference
This year’s event will be held from August 28th to August 31st in Chicago.
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Statement by the Prime Minister on Naw-Rúz
“Around the globe, millions embrace Nowruz as a chance to reflect on the past year and share aspirations for a peaceful and harmonious year ahead. For Bahá’ís, this occasion is celebrated as a Holy Day, marking the end of 19 days of fasting and the beginning of a new year in the Bahá’í calendar.”
Winter 2019 issue of Bahá’í Canada
This issue of Bahá’í Canada focuses on how we have arisen to meet the needs of the Plan. Our feature article, Responding to the call, shares the stories of a number of individuals who each responded in creative ways, often having to overcome tests in order to meet the needs of their community.
News of Community Properties Fund
“Between now and the end of the Plan, new life will be given to neighbourhoods, clusters and regions that are experiencing growth, through the removal of obstacles of space.”
Homefront pioneering: “our next teaching act”
The call to raise the number of clusters with intensive programs of growth, first shared in 2015, continues to resonate throughout the world to this day. Here we follow one family that immediately responded to the goals set by the Universal House of Justice and set out to pioneer to a cluster looking to grow.
Compilation on prayer and devotional life
“It is the hope of the House of Justice that this compilation, prepared by the Research Department at its request, will be studied widely and will be of assistance to individuals, families, and communities as they strive to evoke the spirit of the Mashriqu’l-Adhkár in the creation of occasions where any soul may inhale the divine fragrances…”
The bounty of tests
A woman in Winnipeg, after facing an unexpected test, found that by relying on God and continuing her teaching efforts she has found greater happiness and confirmation than ever before.
These days of giving
“Let the days in excess of the months be placed before the month of fasting. We have ordained that these, amid all nights and days, shall be the manifestations of the letter Há, and thus they have not been bounded by the limits of the year and its months.”
A light from the world beyond
The following poem was written by 12-year-old Manar Ali Vink when she completed a study of the Dawnbreakers with some adults and youth in her Vancouver community.
New volume of Bahá’u’lláh’s mystical works
“The volume contains seven Tablets, all revealed before 1863, including the long anticipated retranslation of the Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys.”
Message to Canada’s unit conventions — 2019
“It is with joy that the National Spiritual Assembly greets you, participants in a unique electoral process described in the powerful 18 January 2019 message of the Universal House of Justice to the Bahá’ís of the world as itself an expression of peace.”
