Bahai News

The Prime Minister of Samoa has expressed his gratitude to the country's Baha'i community for its long service to the development of Samoan society.

Everyone is subject to anxiety--from the stress of a daily dose of disasters in our news media, crises in our families and neighborhoods, war, aging and disease.

Years in the First Ward: Byndom moved to Columbia for the first time with his mother when he was 9. He left the state when he was 16, returned in 1994 and has lived in the First Ward since 2010.

Every Sunday afternoon in the apartment of David Hickman his newly wed wife, Crystal Rondeaux-Hickman, they and other volunteers teach children the positive principles of the Baha'i faith during their Baha'i Children's Class.

French sociologist Emile Durkheim , considered by many as the father of social science and whose group Annee Sociologique made major contributions to the study of religion, regarded dichotomy between sacred and profane as the essence of religion.

Every Sunday afternoon in the apartment of David Hickman his newly wed wife, Crystal Rondeaux-Hickman, they and other volunteers teach children the positive principles of the Baha'i faith during their Baha'i Children's Class.

Taken at face value, Mohsen Makhmalbaf's The Gardener , which opens at the Gene Siskel Film Center this Friday, is lightweight stuff.

Most African-Americans have historically embraced Christianity as their religion.

Cost is $6 for adults, $4 for children 6-12 and free for children under 5. Hot dogs and carry-outs will also be available.

Pictures of Baha'i religious leaders arrested in Iran are seen during a protest at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro June 19, 2011.

Following the 1979 Islamic Revolution, prejudice toward Baha'is was transformed into a systematic repression of the community organized at the highest levels of government.

Symbols predate literacy, and history has a rich treasury of them. Humanity has always needed ways to define belonging, to feel part of a group, to advertize a position in society, a cause or an ideal.