
Upcoming Friends of Persian Culture conference
This year’s event will be held from August 28th to August 31st in Chicago.
On 10 July, the Universal House of Justice addressed a message to the Bahá’ís of the World regarding the implementation of the Badi‘ calendar:
“Progress of the Temple Construction, Worship and Service – July 2014,” the sixth in a series of video newsreels showing the progress of the construction of the House of Worship in Santiago, Chile, is now available in English and Spanish on the official website.
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.
Greg Johnson, who previously served on the Spiritual Assembly of Eskasoni and the Bahá’í Council of the Atlantic Provinces, passed away on 8 June.
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.
The message received from your National Convention brought us much happiness, particularly when we learned of the spirit of determination generated among those present during their purposeful deliberations on the exigencies of the Cause.
On 12 June, the Universal House of Justice released a message dated 6 June to the President of Brazil, Ms. Dilma Rousseff, on the occasion of the opening of the World Cup 2014 tournament. Message
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:
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.
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.