FARGO - Marian Kadrie still recalls her reaction to learning her future husband was Baha'i: "Oh no, not another religion." The daughter of Muslim Syrian immigrants who came to central North Dakota in ...

Bahá'ís in Bermuda and around the world will next Saturday celebrate Naw-Ruz, the Bahá'í New Year. Naw-Ruz aligns with the spring equinox, the time when the sun crosses the equator line in a northerly ...

Many religious groups, particularly those of biblical faith, have covenants – agreements between people and God – as central to their beliefs. Members of the Baha’i faith have two types of covenants, ...

Drama is essential to the launching of a new religion. Christian Science was the rare exception; Mary Baker Eddy started it in 1866 simply by having a revelation. Conforming to the rule is another ...

In our series World of Worship, we're exploring different ways people practice faith and religion around the globe. In this installment, we go on a journey to the "Mother Temple of the West" to look ...

Baha’i is a young monotheistic religion that started and grew in Iran. It was part of the Shi’ite branch of the Muslim faith. It teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity and equality ...

While your calendar may not show 2019 is a leap year, it is for some people. Introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, Americans use the Gregorian calendar, which has to be corrected every four years — ...

(RNS) — More than 20 years ago, when Layli Miller-Muro was still in law school, her first immigration client was a Muslim woman from Togo who sought asylum in the United States to avoid a forced ...

This month, as part of our ongoing series of faith features, we look at the Bahá'í Faith. Here is a simple, but hopefully interesting, overview of their origin and beliefs. Less well known than most ...

Welcoming the latest UN reports, Dr. Saba Haddad, Representative of the Baha’i International Community to the UN in Geneva, said: “Three UN reports published at once, revealing and condemning the ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Aliyah Marandiz, who grew up a member of the Baha'i faith, said that her religion influences her actions, her perspective and how she treats other people, much the same way any ...

The local Baha’i congregation is scheduled to host a memorial gathering in honour of Glenford Mitchell on March 15, 2026.