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Examine
the wondrous behaviour of the Prophets, and recall the defamations and
denials uttered by the children of negation and falsehood, perchance
you may cause the bird of the human heart to wing its flight away from
the abodes of heedlessness and doubt unto the nest of faith and certainty,
and drink deep from the pure waters of ancient wisdom, and partake of
the fruit of the tree of divine knowledge. Such is the share of the pure
in heart of the bread that hath descended from the realms of eternity
and holiness.
(Bahá'u'lláh,
The Kitáb-i-Íqán, p. 5 - 6)
The Monument Gardens: Resting Place of Ásiyih Khánum and Mírzá Mihdí, Haifa, Israel. 
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ULAANBAATAR, Mongolia — The coldest capital city on earth was the gathering place last weekend for 1,700 Baha’is from Mongolia, Russia, and other nations – called together to celebrate achievements in community-building work and make plans for future activities at the local level.
Temperatures reached minus 30 C a day or two before the conference as people made their way to the gathering. Some of the Baha’is from eastern Mongolia had to get special permission from the government to travel during a major snowstorm, but they made it safely to Ulaanbaatar and were pleased to be part of the gathering, the first of its kind to be held in the country.
The event was one of 41 such conferences convened by the Universal House of Justice, the head of the Baha’i Faith, in cities around the world over a four-month span.
Simultaneous conferences were held last weekend in Madrid, Spain, and Sydney, Australia. The gathering in Sydney drew nearly 5,500 participants, making it the largest Baha’i conference ever held in the Southern Hemisphere. The event in Madrid included some 1,400 participants from peninsular Spain, the Canary Islands, and Portugal.
The 33 conferences to date have attracted some 63,800 people. Coming this week are events in Auckland, New Zealand, and Battambang, Cambodia, to be followed the next weekend by conferences in Frankfurt, Germany, and Padua, Italy.
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