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Site updated: 2012 May 16
From the webmaster:
The Education Under Fire initiative is an ongoing world-wide effort and we should continue to actively support this in any and every way we can. For more information on what you can do, see the Links page.
On going:
If you wish to donate to the Orangevale Food Bank,
just bring your donation to Feast and drop it in the basket
I will provide.
I will see that it gets to the Food Bank
and ensure that they know it is from
the local Bahá'ís
as part of our outreach to the greater community.
The community must become imbued with a sense of mission and the Assembly grow in awareness of its role as a channel of God's grace not only for the Bahá'ís but for the entire village, town or city in which it serves.
Letter from the Universal House of Justice, dated December 26, 1995, to the Conference of the Continental Boards of Counselors, in Turning Point, Selected Messages of the Universal House of Justice and Supplementary Material 1996-2006, par. 1.21
The webmaster appreciates all the assistance he receives in making this portal a better community resource.
Baha'i World News Service
BWNS Persian Edition
2012 May 16
On anniversary of arrests, Canadian MPs highlight Iran's human rights violations
2012 May 14
Persecution intensifies as former Baha'i leaders mark anniversary behind bars
2012 April 27
Fifty years on, European Baha'i communities recall landmark elections
2012 April 27
Panel examines the role of young people in social change
2012 April 27
Guam joins global condemnation of Iran's human rights abuses
2012 April 15
Plans to build new Houses of Worship announced
The Baha'i Faith is the youngest of the world's independent monotheistic religions. Founded in Iran in 1844, it now has more than five million adherents in 236 countries and territories. Baha'is come from nearly every national, ethnic and religious background, making the Baha'i Faith the second-most-widespread religion in the world.
Baha'is view the world's major religions as a part of a single, progressive process through which God reveals His will to humanity. Baha'u'llah (1817-1892), the Founder of the Baha'i Faith, is recognized as the most recent in a line of Divine Messengers that includes Abraham, Moses, Buddha, Zoroaster, Christ and Muhammad.
The central theme of Baha'u'llah's message is that humanity is one single race and that the day has come for humanity's unification into one global society. While reaffirming the core ethical principles common to all religions, Baha'u'llah also revealed new laws and teachings to lay the foundations of a global civilization. "A new life," Baha'u'llah declared, "is, in this age, stirring within all the peoples of the earth."
The worldwide Baha'i community, composed of people from virtually every racial, ethnic and religious background, is working to give practical expression to Baha'u'llah's vision of world unity. We invite you to learn more about the Baha'i Faith and benefit from the spiritual and practical insights found in the Revelation of Baha'u'llah, God's message for humanity in this day.
Source: www.bahai.us
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