The Bahá’í House of Worship to be built in Santiago now has a site. (A construction site, that is; it’s had a web site for a while.)

The National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Chile has taken possession of a 110-hectare site in a rural region of the Chacabuco Province some 35 minutes by car […]

There is a nice feature about artist Duffy Sheridan on the web site for the Tri-Valley Dispatch. Sheridan recently received awards for two of his paintings:

Last month Sheridan, who resides in the Baha’i Desert Rose Community at Eloy, was given two prestigious awards for his portraits “Trust” and “Self Portrait 2004.”

“Trust” was awarded the Chairman’s […]

Actor Earl Cameron, a Bahá’í, has a leading role in Sydney Pollack’s new thriller The Interpreter. He plays a central role in the film, the ruler of a fictitious African nation of Matobo. I haven’t seen the movie, but it looks like it could be interesting — it takes place at the United Nations, […]

Known last year as the Australian Baha’i Film Festival, the Harmony Film Festival is an international short film festival in Sydney, Australia. The theme of the festival this year is “women”.
From their site:

The first year’s festival in 2004 was a huge success with 28 entries and over 700 people attending the Sydney screening night, multiple […]

Alright, so we’re a little late with the Ridvan post. Sorry about that. To make up for it we give you this article from the Virgin Islands Daily News:

The Baha’is of the Virgin Islands celebrate the annual Festival of Ridvan (pronounced Rizwan) for 12 days from April 21 to May 2.

“Ridvan” means “paradise.” From April […]

Not really sure how I feel about even linking to this but I guess next week when your australian friend tells you that: “Dude! Russell Crowe is a Baha’i! Dude I swear!” you’ll at least know where the rumour started.
That’s us, always trying to keep our readership informed.

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Ok fine, it seems like I’m the last person in the entire web-o-sphere to link to this, but they’ve just updated the Bahai.org site.
It’s much easier to find your way around and everything is now right at your finger tips. Need info on the Baha’i Faith? This should be your first stop.

Link (as if […]

For all of you geeky-types out there, this is just to let you know that our rss feed is actually working now. So now your work can be interrupted the as soon as we post! Isn’t techmology beautiful?
You can find the rss feed at the bottom of the page.

ps. the comments rss still isn’t working, […]

Back on March 23rd, more than 120 people were given temporary shelter at the Baha’i Center in San Jose, California after a fire in a nearby apartment building (you can find the original news story here).

So now, the Baha’is in San Jose have hosted a benefit to help the more than 200 who were left […]

And while we’re on the film-kick, check out this DVD that’s been released by the Baha’i Publishing Trust of Germany.
Here’s the obligatory site blurb:
The Bahá’í Gardens in Israel are one of the most holy places of the Bahá’ís. In brillant video quality, this film gives a unique insight into the entire Bahá’í Gardens of Haifa.
Witness […]

From a story on BBC News today:
The world’s richest countries are failing to provide the funds needed for education in the developing world, the Global Campaign for Education has said.

The campaign group’s report was published during ministerial meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington.

The delegates are set to discus efforts to […]

Found this little item while searching for “One Planet, One People, Please”. There doesn’t seem to be a date on it, but I’d like to think that The Tongan Cowboy is timeless.
From the article (originally from New Zealand Adventure Magazine):
I continually check the cultural and environmental impact our presence is having on the area. One […]

I had been saving this one for a rainy day, but since I haven’t got anything else up my sleeve, I give you threadnine.

They make some pretty shirts with Baha’i inspired designs. They’re no “One Planet, One People, Please” t-shirts, but they’re still nice. Go and have a look.

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The Congo Baha’i Youth Choir is going to be on CNN Inside Africa this weekend. So everybody set your VCRs and Tivos.

Europe, Middle East, Africa, Latin America
SAT 1630 GMT, SUN 0630 GMT

Asia, S. Asia
SAT 1630 GMT

United States
SAT 12:30

The UN Commission on Human Rights has, for the third year in a row, failed to pass a resolution calling for the international monitoring of human rights violations of Baha’is in Iran.
From the Baha’i World News Service Story:
“In view of the sharp increase of human rights violations against the Baha’i community of Iran, it is […]

Ok, so I may like “The Matrix” as much as the next guy, but I think these folks may have taken things a wee bit too far. And unfortunately, they seem to want to take the Baha’is with them.
From the website: Matrixism: The Religion of The Matrix

Though made popular at the turn of the […]

So the Mana Music site just went live.
Here’s the lowdown (from the site):
MANA is a Baha’i music and cultural performance group based in Sydney, Australia. The members of MANA are predominately youth, most of them still attending high school, and though they are all residents of Sydney, their roots are traced back to Samoa, Tonga […]

As a nice companion to an earlier post we offer you this: the Institute for Studies in Global Prosperity an NGO working with the Baha’i International Communitee and whose current efforts “focus on the role that both religious and scientific resources play in the process of social and economic development.”
Check out this document to see […]

The Baha’i News Service has a story up today about Mr Tony Blair’s love for the Baha’i community. From the article:
The prime minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair, has praised the work of the nation’s Baha’i community in assisting social cohesion and the interfaith movement.

“In many ways, Baha’is embody the spirit of community cohesion […]

One of the main teachings of Baha’u'llah is the agreement of science and religion. As Abdu’l-Baha said in Promulgation of Universal Peace:
Any religious belief which is not conformable with scientific proof and investigation is superstition, for true science is reason and reality, and religion is essentially reality and pure reason; therefore, the two must correspond. […]

Profile of Khalil Greene, shortstop for the San Diego Padres (he also happens to be a Baha’i). This time courtesy of the “San Diego Padres News”.
Yeah, not much more to say about it really. But for all our loyal readers, here’s the Link.

A couple of smart folks from the University of North Carolina have published a book called “Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers”

And there is a great little review by Scott Korb over at the revealer:

In religious terms, according to teenagers, God cares that each teenager is happy and that each teenager has […]

A friend just dropped me a link to a Southern Baptist manual titled:
“BREAKING THE BAHA’I CODE: UNDERSTANDING AND EVANGELIZING MEMBERS OF THE BAHAI FAITH”

It is quite an impressive document, and Cky J. Carrigan,  Ph.D, certainly did a thorough job in it’s preparation. His summary of the history and basic teachings of the Faith are among […]

BWNS has posted a story about Baha’i classes in Australian schools.

Australian parents have the option of enrolling their children in Special Religious Education courses at state schools, thanks in part to a century-old law requiring schools to offer religious training if parents want it…

“Parents appreciate that we teach the students to respect the different cultures […]