On May 21, 1844, the Bahá’í faith was born into this world. For the next 48 years, the twin founders of the faith, the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh were wrapped in heroic and messianic events that took them ...

We enter a new year full of hope and with new aspirations. The future we long for in 2026, however, will depend not merely on ...

A Baha'i International Community representative says she hopes seven jailed Iranian Baha'i leaders will now get a proper appeal hearing after their sentences were reportedly halved, RFE/RL's Radio ...

For third-year bioengineering student Sattar Khoshkhoo, vice chair of the Baha’i Association, a student group at UCLA, the pursuit of higher education has come at a tremendous cost: departing from ...

When Mina Sanaee’s three children were growing up in Toronto, they’d sometimes ask her where her wedding pictures were. At first, answering was simple: she and her husband had married in Iran, left ...

On November 29, 2019, the Bahá'í community of Rwanda celebrated the bicentenary of the birth of the Báb, the herald of the Baha'i Faith, and 67 years of existence in the country. Bahá'ís stressed the ...

The Baha'i faith is only 165 years old, an infant compared to the ancient history of Iran, where it was founded. Independent and monotheistic, Baha'is set themselves apart from Islam and were branded ...

The global Baha'i faith originated in Iran in the mid-nineteenth century based on the principle of the unity of humanity. Since then, the Baha'i community has dispersed worldwide, becoming one of the ...

The Iranian constitution after the 1979 revolution provides limited freedoms for religious minorities, and it does not recognize the Baha’i community, with more than 300,000 members in the country.

The history of Bahá'í explained in its historical, geographic and religious context. The Bahá'í faith began to take its present form in 1844 in Iran. It grew out of the Shi'ite branch of the Muslim ...