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On 5th December the first ever Inter Faith Eisteddfod took place in Cardiff as the culmination of events held in Wales for the Inter Faith Week in Wales.
An eisteddfod – Welsh for ’sitting together’ – is a festival of literature, music and performance and this particular eisteddfod gave people from the different faith communities in [...]

Baha’i delegates Arthur L Dahl and Tahirih Naylor in conversation in Windsor Castle with HRH Prince Philip, ARC Secretary-General Martin Palmer, and UN Secretary-General HE Ban Ki-moon
Is this, as has been suggested, “the biggest civil society movement on climate change in history”?
Representatives of the Bahá’í International Community joined some 200 delegates from nine major [...]

The Baha’i International Community has become a partner in a UN sponsored programme to address climate change and environmental stability.
According to the Baha’i World News Service, the programme, which is co-sponsored by the Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), seeks to promote lifestyle changes that will help slow [...]

The 15th edition of the UK Baha’i Review has been published. This attractive, full-colour, 32-page magazine, launched in 2001, showcases the activities and thinking of the Bahá’í community of the United Kingdom in the past twelve months.
Special features in the latest edition includes news of the UNESCO recognition of Baha’i holy places in Israel as [...]

The Prime Minister Gordon Brown has described the prejudice and discrimination faced by Bahá’ís around the world as “tragic”.
Mr Brown made his remarks in a special message sent to the UK Bahá’í community on the holiest day of the Bahá’í year. In a letter addressed to the annual reception hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Friends of [...]

The national governing council of the UK Bahá’í community has joined with the country’s religious leaders in urging the G20 leaders not to forget their commitments to the world’s poorest people in the current economic crisis.
In a letter issued in advance of the G20 meeting in London, political leaders are called upon to consider the [...]

The recent shootings in Antrim and Craigavon – in which two soldiers and a police officer died – have been condemned by the Bahá’ís of Northern Ireland.
“We are very disturbed by these events…this is a shocking development,” wrote the Bahá’í Council for Northern Ireland in a statement to the Community NI website, a portal [...]

Henry Grunwald QC, President of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, pictured, has written to Foreign Secretary David Miliband, to call, once again, for the government to take action to support the persecuted Bahá’í community in Iran.
The Board made representations to the government in May of last year when six community leaders were arrested [...]

The national governing body of the Bahá’í faith in the United Kingdom has joined a call for the Prime Minister to improve international efforts to protect freedom of religion and belief – specifically through the appointment of an Ambassador-at-Large for Freedom of Religion and Belief. 
In a letter to Gordon Brown, Christian Solidarity Worldwide, Release International and [...]

Lady Lilian Carpenter, the widow of the former Dean of Westminster Dr Edward Carpenter and a devoted member of the United Kingdom Bahá’í community has died at the age of 91.

Lady Carpenter met her husband, then a young curate, at the Holy Trinity church in Marylebone where she was active in its Sunday School and Youth [...]