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 ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The viciousness of the Iranian regime toward Iranians of the Baha’i faith was ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The Baha’i have long been under attack in Iran, as I have discussed on this blog.

Aleda Nelson’s interest in the Baha’i Faith began when she spotted a billboard at the corner of Maryland Parkway and Flamingo Road. “It said, ‘One Planet. One people. Please,’ ” she recalled. “I had ...

Before this past summer, Topekan Duane Herrmann had made two pilgrimages to the international headquarters of the Baha’i faith in Haifa, Israel. This summer, he made his third trip to Haifa at the ...

The Baha’i faith — a small but global religion with an interfaith credo — fits comfortably into the religious spectrum of most countries. In several Middle East nations, however, Baha’i followers face ...

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 ...

Brother and sister Ramin and Raheleh Sohrab joined a feast in New Haven with fellow members of the Baha’i faith — storing up in anticipation of an annual fast. The occasion was Baha’i feast of ayyam-i ...

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 ...

A description of Bahá'í worship, in which they try to know and love God. Bahá'ís see themselves as a people with a mission to bring harmony and unity in the world, and this is reflected in their ...

Is it a rocket ship? Was it a refueling station for German U-boats? Does it house a white whale? Those are just a few of the bizarre rumors that have swirled around the Baha’i House of Worship in ...

Membership of the Bahá'í faith is open to all those who believe that Bahá'u'lláh is the latest Manifestation of God and who accept the Covenant Bahá'u'lláh made with his followers about his successor ...