On Monday, June 28, singer Emily Price, stepped off a plane at Chicago’s O’Hare airport and after twenty hours of travel she headed straight for rehearsal with the city’s Grant Park Chorus.  While she sight-read French choral music and withstood fatigue, images of India danced in her head.

At the end of this month, 200 voices will together sing songs of divinity as Baha'is and friends from across the country travel to Wilmette, Ill. for the 4th Annual Baha’i Choral Music Festival and Concerts.

The annual event, held during the 12-day Festival of Ridvan, which commemorates Baha'u'llah's proclaiming in 1863 His mission as God's Messenger for this age, is when delegates come together to elect the nine-member National Spiritual Assembly.

The Fourth Annual Choral Music Festival was held May 27-30, 2010 and there were two free concerts at the Baha'i House of Worship on Sunday, May 30th at 9:00 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. 

Baha'i communities across the United States and the globe are demonstrating their concern and support for seven Iranian Baha’i leaders who are scheduled to appear before an Islamic Republic Revolutionary Court on February 7, 2010.

Hundreds of Baha'i communities throughout the United States observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day by helping to organize public events to commemorate the great, slain civil rights leader.

Baha’is are urged to “Consort with the followers of all religions in a spirit of friendliness and fellowship.” One way they do this is through the commemoration of World Religion Day -- Sunday, January 17.

If communities were like people, turning a hundred would be one of those kindly occasions for a gentle birthday party where the kids might be cautioned not to get the honored senior overstimulated.

Acceptance of the ethical dimension of climate change has risen to a new level of importance in discussions at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, say members of the Baha'i delegation.

Baha'is from five continents, including two from the United States, are making presentations at the Parliament of the World's Religions – an event now held every five years in the modern continuation of an initiative begun more than a century ago.