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On July 10, 2014, the Universal House of Justice announced three decisions regarding the Badi` (Bahai) calendar, which will affect the dates of Feasts and Holy Days. Naw Ruz will usually fall on March 20th, which means that all the Feast days will be one day earlier, and the births of the Bab...

Pretty close, but the local bodies (Local Spiritual Assemblies) do not directly elect the National Spiritual Assembly. Rather, local communities elect one, two or sometimes three delegates, according to the number of Bahais in the area, and the delegates go to a national convention, where stuff...

Arthra -- it is not necessary for the civil authorities to recognise the Bahai communities. It works the other way around: the Bahais form their local and national Assemblies, and if the laws of the state allow it, the Assemblies then incorporate and seek other forms of legal recognition.

The trial took place on schedule; the sentences are not yet announced

Not counting Mullah Husayn of course. And But sure, I know what you mean.

Hi Wil, the Bahai scriptures and the practice of Abdu'l-Baha includes the saying of grace, before and after meals, but this is not a prominent part of the practice of the Bahais in the West, thus far. Bahai practice is still developing, guided in part by the Bahai scriptures and in part by the...

Destruction of the House of Baha’u'llah: update July 17, 2013 In a message addressed to the Bahais of the world, the Universal House of Justice has stated: “… it was with utter shock and desolating grief that the Baha’is in Baghdad discovered on 26 June that the “most holy habitation” of...

The Sentinel Project, an independent Toronto-based NGO that focuses on genocide prevention, has recently launched a visualization of the persecution of the Baha’is in Iran. The Sentinel Project has deemed the situation of the Iranian Baha’is to be a “Situation of Concern.” It has previously...

I'm impressed by the quality of the answers here. The same question was asked on Yahoo Answers yesterday, and I posted: == Sufism is not a religion, it is the diverse mystic tradition within Islam. "Christian mysticism" is also not a religion, it is an approach to religion. The Bahai Faith...

Re: "How many a handmaid... proved superior to the men" I notice we have returned to the subject of the first quote in this thread. Some more quotes on the same topic: From the Writings of Baha'u'llah Today the Baha'i women (lit., the leaves of the Holy Tree) must guide the handmaidens of...

Prayers before and after meals are recommended by Baha'u'llah, in the Tablet of Medicine, and Abdu'l-Baha has given us several. Both he and Shoghi Effendi pronounced a verse before eating. See Words of Grace                   Sen McGlinn's blog on my blog for some examples and discussion of...

Today, officials from the Ministry of Intelligence have been entering the homes of many of the academic staff of the Bahai Institute for Higher Education (BIHE), a Bahai-run distance learning university that provides internationally accredited university education to Iranian Bahais, who are...

He has since been released on bail, after 11 days in detention. See Sen's Daily

Vajiollah Golpour, a 71-year old Bahai from the village of Safrabad-Sari in Mazandaran province, was arrested by security forces on April 28. Following his interrogation and torture he was led around the city of Tenakabon in shackles for two and a half hours, by security officials, in order to...

Re: It is our duty to investigate the essentials.. This is one of many places in the Bahai writings where "century" does not mean a hundred years, but rather the 'dispensation', the period from the beginning of a religion until the arrival of its 'promised One' (Messiah, Mahdi etc..)...

I've just blogged a translation of this tablet, with some notes. Further notes on the differences between the Persian sources will follow ASAP The short link is Abdu?l-Baha on religious law and the House of Justice Sen McGlinn's blog

Sentences of the 7 Yaran halved on appeal Sentences halved for the seven Bahai "Yaran" and other news The prison sentences of the seven ‘Yaran’ (helpers) have been reduced from 20 years to 10 years by the Appeals Court in Tehran. See Yaran’s...

Re: The full meaning of the Trinity according to the Bab One side note on this: not every essence we can imagine is in fact an essence. Some are just imagination, or rather fancy (using Coleridge's distinction between the primary imagination as the faculty that grasps essences, and the fancy...

Lord no, I have concentrated on the social teachings/ political theology, not on theology in the narrow sense. What I can say is that in theology and metaphysics, the Bab, Baha'u'llah and Abdu'l-Baha are on one line. I do admire "Gate of the Heart" very much: it makes some things in...

I think the definitions are good, and yes, the Bahai stance is in line with all 4 variants of religious pluralism. Pluralism is not syncretism - not at all. Pluralism is believing that the fruit salad and icecream belong on the same table as the curried chicken. Syncritism is putting curry in...