The Ayyam-i-Ha festival is celebrated in the days before the Baha’i Fast and is dedicated to community service, hospitality, ...

Armin Assadi's father was threatened by state agents when Assadi was 3 years old, leading the family to spend years on the run before attempting to flee Iran.

The Baha’i faith community calls it Race Unity Day. It’s also known as Race Amity Day, and wherever there is a Baha’i community, the day is celebrated on the second Sunday of June, including at Fort ...

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 ...

This year, a rare lunisolar convergence means several religious fasts overlap: the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the ...

FAYETTEVILLE — Colorful Christmas lights adorned the mantle at the Fayetteville home of Terry and Shelly Pittman. “They’re not really for Christmas,” Shelly explained. “We have our own celebration.” ...

MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) - When it comes to religion, South Carolina has its share of churches, from Baptist and Catholic, to Methodist and Lutheran. While it's no surprise that Christianity is the ...

Throughout the Muslim world, Baha'is are routinely subjected to systematic derision in the form of elaborate conspiracy theories. Hostile political, religious, and media figures portray Baha'is as a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sun had already set when the woman with long gray hair descended the steps to the same prison gate she had passed through all those years ago. Mahvash Sabet had been behind bars for an eternal ...

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 ...