Naw-Ruz is the Bahá’í new year. It is also the spring equinox, and the day that marks the start of Spring (in the northern hemisphere). Adults and children usually take the day off work or school and celebrate with their […]

Bahá’ís are observing the annual Fast, which takes place in the last month of the Bahá’í calendar and is known as the month of ‘Alá (Loftiness). Believers fast from sunrise to sunset for 19 days, culminating in the spring equinox […]

For many Baháʼí children, the upcoming celebration of Ayyám-i-Há is eagerly awaited: it's a time for the giving of gifts. Baháʼí s around the world celebrate Ayyám-i-Há with festivities, gifts, parties, service projects, and charitable humanitarian work. It is a time, wrote Bahá’u’lláh, when Baháʼí s should “provide good cheer for themselves, their kindred and, beyond them, the poor and needy.” Baháʼís set aside these days for joyous celebration, for service to others, and f

This year World Religion Day falls on Sunday 18 January though schools will often be marking it in the weeks before or after. Founded by the US Baháʼí community in 1950, World Religion Day was intended to highlight how the spiritual principles underlying the world's religions are harmonious, and how religion can play a significant role in unifying humanity. It was set to be observed on the third Sunday of January, but its widespread adoption for interfaith events and activit

How do we find meaning in our lives? In a divisive world, how do we avoid taking sides? How do we come to see that there is no “other”? These are some of the themes in a recent video review of the worldwide Baháʼí community in 2025. Published by the Baháʼí World News Service , the video may be of especial interest to KS3 and KS4 students. It offers glimpses from efforts of the global Bahá’í community to foster a more harmonious world. Its themes include a reimagining of the

The NATRE website has made available on YouTube the "Real People, Real Faith" videos commissioned by the pan-Berkshire SACREs and funded by NASACRE and Westhill. The videos include Baháʼí responses to three of the questions. Two of the videos were intended for KS1 but are likely to be suitable for lower KS2 as well. For one of the questions, there are KS1 teacher resources available to download. One of the videos is intended for KS3. The three questions are set out below. W

With the kind permission of the Baháʼí  community of Trafford, Greater Manchester, we have included here for the first time resources developed for use in Trafford schools - and proven in the classroom! - in line with the Trafford Agreed RE Syllabus . The KS1 and KS2 resources include presentations, lesson plans, teachers' notes and activity sheets. There are in addition resources for EYFS, which we hope to be able to include in this site in the future. These can be found o

'The Golden Rule', a natural topic for Interfaith Week, is the theme of the current issue of Dayspring , the UK Baháʼí children's magazine, providing ready-made resources for the classroom. At the Parliament of the World's Religions in 1993, more than 8,000 people, from many diverse religions, gathered to explore how religious traditions can work together on the critical issues confronting the world. As part of that gathering, some 143 leaders of the world's major faiths pro