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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seven top leaders of the Baha’i faith are on trial in Iran after awaiting their fate in Tehran's notorious Evin prison for almost two years. Six of the seven Baha'is were detained in May 2008 on ...

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 process of converting to the Bahá'í religion, known by Bahá'ís as "declaring one's faith". Membership of the Bahá'í faith is open to all those who believe that Bahá'u'lláh is the latest ...

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 ...