Bahá’í Faith
Waco Area
"The earth is one country, and Mankind its citizens."
PO Box 8995
Waco, Texas 76714
(254) 744-7001
(254) 717-7903
Bahá’u’lláh
Worship services every Sunday, 10-11AM
Bahá’í Faith, 2500 Bosque Blvd. (at 25th Street)
Underlined items are links to safe off-site readings and resources.
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LINKS AND RESOURCES
LINKS AND RESOURCES
The Universal House of Justice - Haifa, Israel
"The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens."
The Universal House of Justice
Bahá’í World Centre,
Haifa, Israel
The supreme governing body of the Bahá'í Faith was officially founded in 1963, on the slopes of Mount Carmel, near Haifa, Israel. The Universal House of Justice is a legislative institution created to supplement and apply the Laws and Teachings of Bahá'u'lláh and `Abdu'l-Bahá. Its nine administrators are elected every five years from members in good standing of the world community by an electoral college consisting of all the members of each Bahá'í National Spiritual Assembly throughout the world. (There are more than five million Bahá'ís around the world in more than 200 countries and territories.)
Bahá'í House of Worship, Wilmette, Illinois
The Shrine of the Báb, Mount Carmel
Bahá’í World Center, Haifa
Bahá'í House of Worship, Wilmette, Illinois
While empowered to legislate on matters not explicitly addressed in Bahá'í scripture, the Universal House of Justice more often provides guidance for Bahá'ís across the world through letters and other messages. The institution is located within the greater Bahá'í World Centre, which also includes Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh near Acre, the Shrine of The Báb and its gardens on Mount Carmel in Haifa, libraries, worship centers, and various other buildings. Headquarters for American Bahá'ís is located in Evanston, IL –not far from a beautiful Bahá'í Temple in Wilmette.
Links and Resources
The entire body of authorized Bahá'í writings, including those by The Báb, Bahá'u'lláh, `Abdu'l-Bahá,
and Shoghi Effendi, is available online: http://www.bahai.org/library/
For a quick overview of Bahá'í teachings: http://www.oneworldcitizens.net/
For more background about The Báb (forerunner and "twin prophet" for Bahá’u’lláh), and the Bábi Faith,
The Báb - Herald of the Baha'i Faith, Bahá’í Reference Library: http://www.bahai.org/the-bab/
For Baha'i literature, music, activities, teaching materials, and other officially approved resources:
http://www.bahaibookstore.com/default.aspx
Bahá’í Prayers are among the most beautiful and expressive ever written. A representative selection,
listed by category, can be found here: http://www.bahaiprayers.org/indexlong.htm
The United States Bahá’í video library: http://media.bahai.us and the YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/usbahaifaith
The U.S. Bahá’í News e-Newsletter is a terrific resource for keeping abreast of concerns global, national, and regional for Bahá’ís and those interested in the Faith: http://bit.ly/zXVu5k
‘ABDU’L-BAHÁ, Some Answered Questions, Bahai Publishing Trust (1984). Contains a wide range of
Q&A compiled from a series of talks given by 'Abdu'l-Bahá in 1904, 1905, and 1906; of particular interest to Christians, available in full: http://bahai-library.com/abdulbaha_some_answered_questions
...and in PDF format at http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19289?msg=welcome_stranger
SEARS, WILLIAM, Thief in the Night: The Case of the Missing Millennium, George Ronald Pub. Ltd.
(1961), available in full: bahai-library.com/sears_thief_night
Greater Waco Interfaith Conference (GWIC): http://wacointerfaith.org/
The Bahá’í Calendar
The Bahá'í calendar was first implemented and used by the Bábí faith, and then adapted for use in the Bahá'í Faith, with some changes. However, the Bahá'í scriptures left a number of issues regarding the implementation of the calendar to be resolved by the Universal House of Justice, the governing body of the Bahá'ís, before the calendar could be observed uniformly worldwide. The calendar has previously been locked to the Gregorian calendar, with the new year always being March 21. However, on July 10, 2014, the Universal House of Justice announced provisions that will enable the common implementation of the calendar worldwide. Beginning at sunset on March 20, 2015, the calendar will no longer be locked to the Gregorian calendar, and the new year will start on the day of the vernal equinox.
The Universal House of Justice also selected Tehran, Iran --birthplace of Bahá'u'lláh -- as the location to which the date of the vernal equinox is to be fixed, and the point from which calendar dates will be determined based on modern astronomical tables.
