Bahai

Baha’i World Center celebrates the festival of Ayyam-i-Ha

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

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Guests enter the Baha’i Shrine and Gardens in Bahji, in the northern Israeli port city of Acre, February 26, 2026
A woman holds a placard during a demonstration in solidarity with protestors living in Iran, in Israel's central city of Holon on January 24, 2026.

UN experts demand answers as Iran continues to cloud the truth on violent protest crackdown

UN human rights experts demand that Iran reveal the fates of detainees, stop executions, and provide accountability amidst the brutal crackdown on protesters in recent months.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
FOR IRAN’S Christian community, the postwar crackdown has been particularly severe, with at least 50 members detained by authorities. Here, Iranian Christians take part in the New Year prayer ceremony at a church in Tehran last January.

When faith comes under fire: How Iran’s repression of religious minorities has increased

IRAN AFFAIRS: A new report by NUFDI titled “Faith Under Siege” has documented the religious oppression, providing many examples of the individuals who have been arrested.

|ByALEX WINSTON
Members of the Baha'i faith hold flowers as they demonstrate outside a state security court during a hearing in the case of a fellow Baha'i man charged with seeking to establish a base for the community in Yemen, in the country's capital Sanaa April 3, 2016

Iranian regime weaponizes judicial systems against Baha'i minority, Human Rights Watch claims

The Baha'i International Community reported that the occurance persecutory acts against Baha’i between July and November 2025 was three times higher than the same time period in 2024.

|ByGOLDIE KATZ

Religious minorities forbidden from teaching in Iranian kindergartens

"It is clear that this announcement is explicitly opposed to the laws of the country," wrote a Zoroastrian member of Iran's Parliament.

JUNE 3, 2019ByTZVI JOFFRE
Students play with Lego bricks in the Pishtaz School in Tehran October 2011

Baha’is in Iran plagued by worsening ‘systematic persecution’

Member of 300,000-strong community who fled Islamic Republic describes life under oppressive regime.

MAY 1, 2019ByMAYA MARGIT/THE MEDIA LINE
A BAHA’I family in Fars province stands near where an arson attack was committed.

Living out the Baha'i faith in service: A journey to Israel

More than a million people visit the gardens every year. Apart from being at the holiest site of his faith, for members it's an opportunity to meet other members of the faith serving there.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018ByWYATT MASSEY
A holy shrine of the Baha'i faith is seen in the northern Israeli city of Haifa in November 2006 picture. Founded in the 19th century by a Persian nobleman, Baha'i is considered by some scholars to be an offshoot of Islam. The faith sees itself as an independent religion and its 5 million followers

From their headquarters in Haifa, Baha’is seek to ‘unify humanity’

The religious group celebrates on Sunday the 200th anniversary of its founder, Bahaullah.

OCTOBER 21, 2017ByBEN LYNFIELD
The Bahai gardens, Haifa