Author: Staff Writer

Source: Baha'i World News Service

http://news.bahai.org/story/567

It's only three words - a total of six letters. But the "Me to We" slogan helps students understand what service is all about, says the principal of the Maxwell International School, located in the woods of Vancouver Island.

"By adopting what Canadian youth activist Craig Kielberger calls the 'Me to We' philosophy, we help our students to be less 'me'-centered...

Source: Hamilton Mountain News

http://www.hamiltonmountainnews.com/hmn/news/news_818892.html

Members of the Voices of Unity Choir, a multi-faith choir based in the Hamilton and Niagara, were invited to sing in the Baha'i Temple in Wilmette, Chicago.

It joined six other choirs from around the USA and Canada to form a choral group of over 200 singers to perform in the Temple on the 24 May 2007. Van Gilmer, a professional director from Chicago,...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Baha'i World News Service

http://www.bahaiworldnews.org/story/552

NEW YORK, 7 June 2007 (BWNS) -- Reports and documents filtering out of Iran over the last six months indicate a widespread and calculated effort by the government to maintain and gradually intensify the persecution of Iranian Baha'is.

The evidence tells of continued efforts by the government to identify and monitor Baha'is; further incidents of...

Source: Baha'i World News Service

http://www.bahaiworldnews.org/story/549

HAIFA, Israel, 27 May 2007 (BWNS) -- On May 29, Baha'is around the world will observe the 115th anniversary of the ascension of Baha'u'llah, the founder of their faith.

Baha'is recognize Baha'u'llah as the divine educator who, as the one promised in the scriptures of all the world's religions, has come to inaugurate a new age of peace and justice for the entire human race.

Edward Granville...

Source: Baha'i World News Service

http://news.bahai.org/story/531

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, 13 May 2007 (BWNS) -- The government of Slovakia has officially registered the Baha'i Faith as a religious community, guaranteeing the group the right to own property, observe holy days, disseminate literature and engage in a host of other activities.

The recognition was the result of an application submitted by the Baha'is which was supported by signatures of some 28,000 residents of the...

Author: Chris Meehan

Source: Kalamazoo Gazette

http://www.mlive.com/features/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/features-0/1178943696306920.xml&coll=7

When Frank Lucatelli came to Kalamazoo in the early 1970s, the local Bahai community was small -- fewer than nine -- which is the number needed to start an official group. But it didn't have to grow much to reach nine, and soon the members...

Source: Baha'i World News Service

http://news.bahai.org/story/525

BRISBANE, Australia, 1 May 2007 (BWNS) -- Management consultant Dorothy Marcic always tried to make her seminars entertaining as well as informative.

This time she outdid herself.

She took a presentation about the equality of the sexes, filled it with Top 40 songs that reflect the status of women, and made a Broadway-type show out of it.

The musical has played successfully in a half dozen U.S....

Source: Baha'i World News Service

http://news.bahai.org/story/524

BAD MERGENTHEIM, Germany, 25 April 2007 (BWNS) -- A Baha'i memorial removed when the Nazis were in power has been restored by municipal authorities in this resort town in southern Germany. The stone commemorates the visit in 1913 of 'Abdu'l-Baha, the successor of Baha'u'llah as head of the Baha'i Faith.

The original memorial was erected in 1916 but removed in 1937 at a time when the Baha'i Faith was outlawed by...

Source: The Baha'i Faith

http://www.bahai.us/node/206

For the third year in a row, Baha'is in northern Michigan collect hazardous waste on Earth Day, Saturday, April 21.

Along with members of more than 120 interfaith organizations in Michigan's Earth Keeper Clean Sweep program, Baha'is in Marquette rounded up pharmaceuticals that otherwise would get flushed down a toilet or poured down a drain -- and wind up in drinking water.

Last year, as part of the Earth Keeper program...

Author: G.M. Corrigan

Source: Examiner

http://www.examiner.com/a-673734~Unity_key_precept_of_Baha_i_faith.html

Howard County - Has the “day of God,” when humanity finally realizes its capacity for love and unity, arrived?

A new-age sense of gentleness, amity and peace seems to exist among Baha’is--followers of a mid-19th-century Persian visionary called Baha’u’llah, who proclaimed the epoch with his own...

Author: LINDA DeNICOLA

Source: The Independent

http://independent.gmnews.com/news/2007/0404/Front_Page/016.html

It's the dawn of a new year for members of the Bahá'í faith, of which there are reputed to be 5 million across the globe.

The first day of the Bahá'í calendar was March 21. Monmouth County Bahá'ís, like their fellow Bahá'ís in other countries, broke their 19-day fast on that day. The Bahá'í new...

Source: Vietnam News

http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01REL220307

HCM CITY — Cong Dong Ton Giao Baha’i Viet Nam (Baha’i Community of Viet Nam) held a ceremony on Tuesday to celebrate the awarding of its certificate of operation from the Government’s Committee for Religious Affairs last month.

The objectives and orientation of the Baha’i religion, which was founded in late 1844 in Iran, were in line with Viet Nam’s laws,...

Author: Louis Sahagun

Source: Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-seer13mar13,0,1072659.story?coll=la-home-headlines

The building appears to be just another little white stucco house in one of South Los Angeles' poorest neighborhoods, with a used washing machine for sale - $25 - in the frontyard.

But to the people who assemble here from throughout Los Angeles - and...

Author: Anita Wadhwani

Source: The Tennessean

http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070306/NEWS06/703060354/1023

For Win Myint, faith means constant meditation, a Buddhist practice that has helped control the tremors of Parkinson's disease and bring him in harmony with the world around him.

Myint - a longtime Nashville resident who immigrated from the former Southeast Asian nation of...

Source: Baha'i World News Service

http://news.bahai.org/story.cfm?storyid=506

NEW YORK, United States, 25 February 2007 (BWNS) -- Among the hundreds of girls coming to the United Nations this week to discuss the problems facing girl children around the world will be a dozen with a distinctive viewpoint: their religion teaches that they are equal to boys.

"For Baha'is, it is a basic element of their faith that we must establish equality between women and men, not to...