For updates and all metro-area events, click HERE. Dear Friends, as we adapt to our changing health environment, we continue our reliance on our Creator. Here is a link to a video from Elika Mahony of one of many Bahá’í prayers for healing. Nancy Ward’s sung prayer is here. Eric Dozier and JB Eckl’s version… Read more

Celebrations in many forms have blanketed the Portland area and the world this past week, as the world commemorated the bicentenary of the birth of the Bab on October 29, followed a day later by the 202nd anniversary of the birth of Baha’u’llah. “72 hours, one world: Over the course of three rotations of the… Read more

“Dearly loved Friends, Consider with us. Whenever a divine Educator appears in the world, a Figure Whose teachings will come to shape human thought and action for centuries thereafter—at such a dramatic, seismic moment, what would we expect? The appearance of every such Educator, as recorded in the Sacred Texts of the world’s great faiths… Read more

For updates and all metro-area events, click HERE. This October 29th marks the bicentenary of The Báb‘s birth! He described Himself this way: “I am, I am, I am the Promised One! I am the One whose name you have for a thousand years invoked, at whose mention you have risen, whose advent you have longed… Read more

This October marks the bicentenary of the Bab’s birth. There will be a number of special activities posted on the website calendar. Listen to a podcast episode about the night of the Bab’s declaration on news.bahai.org. “The events of this night are the origins of the global Baha’i community’s endeavors for the betterment of the world… Read more

Martyrdom of the Báb Commemorations July 10. “Born in Shiraz, a city in southern Iran, on 20 October 1819, the Báb was the symbolic gate between past ages of prophecy and a new age of fulfilment for humanity. His primary purpose was to awaken the people to the fact that a new period in human… Read more