Bahá'í representative Carlos Alberto Silva presents an award to Bernardete Ferreira of March Eighth Woman's House. |
Silvio Humberto dos Passos Cunha (right), from the Steve Biko Benefactor Institute, accepted an award from Bahá'í representative Roberto Iradj Eghrari. |
Hildesia Medeiros of the Ministry of Social Security, presents an award to Luiz Takezi Tohara, representing the Gaspar Center for Human Rights. |
Bahá'í representative Osmar Mendes presents an award to Sonia Creide of the Malunga Group of African-descendant Women. |
Zilda Arns (right) after accepting an award from Bahá'í representative, Solange Aurora. |
Youth celebrate the golden anniversary of the arrival of the Bahá'í Faith in Sicily. |
Emma Mandell Rice (1898-1985) in 1978. |
Stanley and Florence Bagley. |
Dr. Ugo Giachery and his wife, Angeline, early 1970s. (Photo by Phillip Hinton.) |
First Local Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Palermo, 1958. |
Mr. Ali Nakhjavani and his wife, Violette, at the jubilee. |
At a reception at the House of Commons in London, Lord Avebury delivers messages for the Baha'i new year from Prime Minister Tony Blair and from David Cameron, leader of the opposition. |
Participants at the jubilee. |
Florence Bagley (1914-1990). |
Calvin Martin and Bill Anderson say they enjoy their group, for both learning and for recreation. |
Baha'is of Perth, Western Australia, sponsor more than 20 groups for "junior youth." |
One of the aims of the curriculum is to develop in young people their ability to express themselves well. |
Games form an important part of the learning. |
Classical singer Ranzie Mensah will perform in Cyprus, accompanied by pianist Alfredo Matera. |
Bijan Khadem-Missagh (pictured) and his two daughters, Dorothy and Shirin, will perform at the festival. Mr. Khadem-Missagh and his family played at the opening of the Mount Carmel terraces in 2001. |
Some of the Bahá'ís from the 27 countries who celebrated the centenary of the Bahá'í Faith in Switzerland. |
Swiss Federal Chancellor Annamarie Huber-Hotz (fourth from left), with eight members of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Switzerland. |
In Budapest, Hungary, people break into small groups to study a message from the Universal House of Justice, the international governing council of the Baha'i Faith, about the nature of Baha'i elections. Participants then elected their local council for the coming year. (Photograph by Edit Kalman) |
Children and adults gather for a Ridvan program near the Baha'i house of worship outside Frankfurt, Germany. The Festivalof Ridvan lasts 12 days, with most countries holding special events on the first, ninth and 12th days of the period. |
The first Bahá'ís of Switzerland, Dr. Joseph de Bons and his wife, Edith de Bons, with their daughter, Mona, in 1911. |
Young people in Guyana involved in a program called Youth Can Move the World helped collect data to study the correlation between religious belief and the spread of HIV/AIDS. |
Brian O'Toole trains people to help collect data for a study about the spread of HIV/AIDS in Guyana. He credits the network of young helpers for a higher-than-usual rate of response to the questionnaire. |
Musical celebrations: Bahá'ís perform at the Interlaken festivities. |
Dr. Auguste Forel, who wrote in his will: "I have become a Bahá'í. May this religion live and prosper for the good of mankind; this is my most ardent wish." |
Former member of the Universal House of Justice, Ali Nakhjavani (right) and his wife, Violette (second from left), with Holger and Joyce Siebers, members of the Bahá'í community of Switzerland, at the centenary celebrations. |
Four generations of Swiss Bahá'ís at the centenary: the Bahy-Vuichet family. |
Dorothy Marcic, in pink, poses with singers from one of the casts of "Respect." The singers are, from left, Paulette Dozier, Emily Price, and Jeanette Fitspatrick. |
Once a full-time college professor, Dorothy Marcic now devotes herself to "Respect." The musical is playing in the U.S. and Australia, with negotiations under way for 20 more countries. |
The lyrics of Top 40 hits accurately chronicle the women's movement, according to Dorothy Marcic, who wants audiences to have fun as they listen to all the songs she compiled. |
The first National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Switzerland, 1962. At front (center) is the late Fritz Semle, a stalwart member of the community from 1920. |
"The show is about the emerging equality of women," says Dorothy Marcic. She has always liked her presentations to appeal to the emotions as well as the intellect. |
One of the first two Bahá'ís in Switzerland, Edith McKay (later Edith de Bons), right, with May Bolles (later May Maxwell), who introduced her to the Bahá'í Faith in Paris in 1900. |
The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Switzerland, 2003. |
Map of Switzerland. |
Panel members at a discussion of moral questions resulting from climate change included, from left, Don Brown of the Collaborate Program on the Ethical Dimensions of Climate Change, Arthur Lyon Dahl of the International Environment Forum, and Rabbi Lawrence Troster of GreenFaith. |
Baha'i representative Jitka Spillerova signs documents for the Baha'i application for state recognition. At right is Jan Juran of the Ministry of Culture. The signing took place on 19 April 2007. |
Traditional dancers from Vanuatu's Tongoa island starting the jubilee parade from Bahá'í Street, just outside the national Bahá'í center. |
Bahá'ís from Pango and Port Vila communities parading through the capital's main streets |
Opening the extension to the national Bahá'í center...Madge Featherstone (left) and Vanuatu's first Bahá'í, Peter Kaltoli. |
Bertha Dobbins (centre), who took the Bahá'í Faith to Vanuatu, with Hand of the Cause, Collis Featherstone and his wife, Madge, in May 1971. |
Vanuatu Bahá'ís with Bertha Dobbins. |
The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Vanuatu at the Bahá'í World Centre, 1998. |
Training Institute, Lunganville, Santo, 2000. |
Youth volunteer Lui Albert with his students at the Forchenale Bahá'í School, Santo Bush, 1993. |
Peter Kaltoli, 1993. |