Prayer services at the Baha'i House of Worship seem to be simple affairs: a series of readers stepping up to the lectern to recite, chant or sing prayers.

Three Baha’is currently imprisoned in Yemen are facing the possibility of imminent deportation to Iran

“Study circle” sounds sedate and mundane, but Baha'i study circles can be anything but.

BJ Lee, Baha'i since 2006
Eloy, Arizona

I was confirmed a Catholic -- my mother’s doing. My father was Jewish and an agnostic. Both raised me to question things and to accurately interpret information, which is what I did when searching for a religion starting in the ‘70s.

You might assume the Michigan Gender Equity Team was founded by a woman. You’d be wrong. A man named Tom Wilson of Wyandotte, Mich., is behind the organization, which serves as a clearinghouse for organizations devoted to gender equality.

The Baha'is of Chicago were well represented at the 79th annual Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic on Aug. 9, conducting wholesome, fun children’s activities at the picnic part of the event.

Navajo artist Chester Kahn, 72, is a humble man, says his niece Seowah Kahn, someone who is "not in the habit of elevating himself” -- except perhaps to climb a scaffold to paint one of his renowned murals.

The Baha’i International Community categorically rejects statements reported in the Resalat daily, an Iranian newspaper, that seven Baha’i leaders who have been imprisoned in Iran since May have confessed to setting up an illegal organization with ties to Israel to undermine Iranian national security.

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a resolution condemning the persecution of the Baha’is in Iran.

Blend American jazz, Brazilian samba and Chinese traditional sounds and what do you have? A song played at the Olympics in Beijing.