A map purporting to show the second-largest religion in each state appeared on the Washington Post‘s GovBeat blog early this month, and it made a surprising claim: Of all 50 states, South Carolina was ...

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Sienna Mae Heath holds a container of sumac, or “somaq,” which represents sunrise, Thursday near her south Bethlehem apartment. It’s one of several symbolic items she’ll place on a table for the ...

SPRINGFIELD — Persian culture often is misunderstood and the Baha’i Faith little understood by many. So for local dentist Dr. Kayvon Nezhad, the Global Education and Peace Network’s speaker series is ...

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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X On March 20, 2020, just after the spring equinox, Sienna Mae Heath scrounged up what spices, ...

Many religious groups, particularly those of biblical faith, have covenants – agreements between people and God – as central to their beliefs. Members of the Baha’i faith have two types of covenants, ...

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 ...

Long persecuted by Iran's Islamic regime, followers of the Baha'i faith in Tehran have now been told they must bury their dead upon the mass graves of political prisoners. The Baha'i community in the ...

Israel is the last country where an Iranian raised in a Muslim family would have expected to find a place to feel at home. But that’s exactly what happened when I visited. In January 2013, I spent a ...