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New website launched

New layout of the site. Toronto, Ontario, 2 January 2014 (CBNS) — The Baha’i Community of Canada is pleased to announce the launch of its redesigned national website: www.ca.bahai.org.

UN General Assembly again expresses “deep concern” over continuing human rights violations in Iran

An interior view of the United Nations General Assembly hall, New York City. UN Photo/Sophia Paris. United Nations, 18 December 2013 (BWNS) — The UN General Assembly today expressed “deep concern at serious ongoing and recurring human rights violations” in Iran, showing that the international community will not be swayed by mere promises of improvement.

Online videos of the 114 youth conferences

Vancouver conference participants sharing an artistic presentation. © Baha'i Community of Canada/Photo: Ryan Lash Montréal, Quebec, 16 December 2013 (CBNS) — A series of videos of the 114 youth conferences held worldwide this year from July to October have been posted on the Baha’i World News Service website. The videos feature a number of youth who participated in the conferences convened by the Universal House of Justice — the international governing body of the Baha’i community — describing their experiences and the spirit of the events that took place in diverse settings around the globe.

May Maxwell (1870-1940), mother of the Baha’i Community of Canada

The Canadian Baha’i News Service is starting a series on a few historical figures in the Canadian Baha’i Community who were instrumental in the establishment and growth of the community in Canada. Over the course of this coming year, we will be posting one biography every month.

May Maxwell. © Baha'i Community of Canada Toronto, Ontario, 11 December 2013 (CBNS) — May Maxwell is regarded as “the mother of the Baha’i community of Canada.” With her husband, William Sutherland Maxwell, she established in Montréal in 1902 the first Baha’i community in Canada.

Montréal Salon du Livre: Together, youth change the world

Messages written by youth on paper “bricks” glued on the house. © Jean-Paul Moss Montréal, Quebec, 28 November 2013 (CBNS) — This year, at the Salon du livre de Montréal — a major book fair— the theme of the Éditions bahá’íes [Baha'i Publishing] booth was “Together youth are changing the world” to encourage young people to take action for the well-being of their communities. During the fair, which took place from 20 to 25 November, over 260 youth left messages stating how they could change the world. Young visitors had been invited to write a message on a paper “brick,” which was then used to build a house representing a better world. A large poster showing a house under construction, on which the bricks were glued, decorated the back of the booth.

Québec: A warm welcome for the Baha’i Faith at Cégep Sainte-Foy

Baha'i choir performance at closing of event. © Robert Laliberté Québec, Quebec, 27 November 2013 (CBNS) — During Religious Studies Days, which took place in mid-November at Cégep Sainte-Foy, representatives of the Baha’i community received a very warm welcome from teachers and students. This year’s edition of the week-long cultural and educational event, the twelfth in the series, was dedicated to the most recent of the world’s great religions. Given the scope and quality of the program, the high degree of professionalism demonstrated by the organizers, the centrality of the arts and the enthusiastic participation of the students, the event was unprecedented in the history of the Baha’i community of Canada.

Baha’is celebrate the birth of Baha’u’llah

The city of Tehran, Iran, where Baha'u'llah was born.
© Baha'i International Community Toronto, Ontario, 11 November 2013 (CBNS) — On November 12th, Canadian Baha’is, their friends and neighbours will gather to celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Baha’u’llah, the Prophet-Founder of the Baha’i Faith.

Ambassador of Religious Freedom addresses Interfaith Parliamentary Breakfast

Mark Adler, Member of Parliament, with Baha'i delegation at the Interfaith National Breakfast.
© House of Commons Photography 2013 Ottawa, Ontario, 8 November 2013 (CBNS) — Dr. Andrew Bennett, Canada’s Ambassador of Religious Freedom, addressed the Fifth Annual All-Party Interfaith Parliamentary Breakfast on Tuesday 5 November. The Parliamentary Restaurant was filled to capacity with parliamentarians, foreign ambassadors, representatives of Canada’s religious communities and interfaith organizations, and academics.

A week of Baha’i activities at the Sainte-Foy Cégep in Québec

Poster of the event. © Cégep de Sainte-Foy Québec, Quebec, 7 November 2013 (CBNS) — The Baha’i Faith will be at the heart of scholastic life at the Community College of Sainte-Foy (Cégep) next week as part of the twelfth and final series of Religious Studies Days. From 11 to 14 November, students will have the opportunity to discover “this modern religion led by universal principles,” in the words of the principal organizer of the event, Daniel Gignac, Professor of Religious Studies.

Celebrating the birth of the Bab, the Herald of the Baha’i Faith

The Shrine of the Bab in Haifa, Israel.
© Laura Mostmand Toronto, Ontario, 18 October 2013 (CBNS) — On October 20th, Canadian Baha’is will gather with their neighbours and friends to celebrate the 194th anniversary of the birth of the Bab — the first of the two divine teachers central to the founding of the Baha'i Faith.