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 […]

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