Bahá’í homes destroyed and 20 hectares of land confiscated by Iranian government agents | BWNS
Source Media: In this bicentenary year, remembering the birth of a new Faith Global Conferences: Worldwide conferences inspired hope, say societal leaders | BWNS 6 Bahá’í homes destroyed and 20 hectares of land confiscated by Iranian government agents | BWNS Commemorating of the Centenary of the Ascension of ʻAbdu’l-Bahá | BWNS Documentaries Hate crimes start […]
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Inter-religious Chaplaincy
Leaders with interreligious chaplaincy training can offer spiritual support to a range of clienteles. People learn the basics of interreligious chaplaincy from this type of curriculum. There is an urgent need for spiritual care in hospitals, universities, prisons, the military, immigration, family and social services, disaster relief, airports, and businesses. These courses give learners the […]
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Martyrdom of the Báb Holy Day commemoratation
The Execution of the Báb In this extract from God Passes By, Shoghi Effendi recounts the events surrounding the execution of the Báb. The waves of dire tribulation that violently battered at the Faith, and eventually engulfed, in rapid succession, the ablest, the dearest and most trusted disciples of the Báb, plunged Him, as already […]
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Writing and Illustrating The Blessed Beauty
In this talk, Violetta will speak about her inspirations and her process for creating this vast chronology, which is almost 400 pages long, and contains 825 photographs as well as 115 pieces of original art, and close to 60 handmade graphics and maps, illustrating the life and Revelation of Bahá’u’lláh. The Blessed Beauty is a […]
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Who was Dr. Josephine Fallscheer-Zürcher, what did she do for the Bahá’í Faith?
– About the Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá to Germany and Austria – Some new findings on Prof. Forel and the Bahá’í Faith
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12th Day of Ridván
Festival[edit] In the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, written during 1873, Baháʼu’lláh ordains Ridván as one of two “Most Great Festivals”, along with the Declaration of the Báb. He then specified the first, ninth, and twelfth days to be holy days; these days mark the days of Baháʼu’lláh’s arrival, the arrival of his family and their departure from the Ridván garden, […]
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9th Day of Ridván
Context[edit] In 1844 Siyyid ʻAlí-Muhammad of Shiraz proclaimed that he was the “Báb” (Arabic: “Gate”), after a Shiʻa religious concept. His followers were therefore known as Bábís. The Báb’s writings introduced the concept of “He whom God shall make manifest“, a Messianic figure whose coming, according to Baháʼís, was announced in the scriptures of all of the world’s great religions.[5][6] Baháʼu’lláh claimed […]
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A “Science of Religion” Approach to “Figuring Out Prophecy”
The very first sentence of Shoghi Effendi’s June 1933 letter to the High Commissioner for Palestine (Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope) is this: “The Revelation proclaimed by Bahá’u’lláh, His followers believe, is divine in origin, all-embracing in scope, broad in its outlook, scientific in its method, humanitarian in its principles and dynamic in the influence it […]
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