The Champaign Baha’i Community invites you to The First Day of Ridván, The Most Great Festival, during which Bahá’u’lláh declared his Station to the world. Friday, April 21, 2023 beginning at 2:30 pm at the Baha’i Center in Urbana, 807 E. Green Street
On November 27, 2021, Baha’is the world over will commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the passing of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, one of the three central figures of the Baha’i Faith. He is not yet well known to much of the world, but his influence on the early Bahá'ís of Urbana was profound. Born on May 23, 1844, he lived for 77 years, more than 40 years as a prisoner of conscience with His family in exile in the prison city of Akka in old Palestine. Some of the first Bahá'ís in Urbana visited him in Palestine, others attended his talks in 1912 when he traveled in the United States for eight
Our nation has reached a crossroad concerning racism and has started in a new direction. The history of America will reflect a coming-to-terms with long-standing, unequal treatment of people. Inequity and injustice have fragmented people’s relationships with one another. We must not go backward into denial, but instead must go forward into healing by championing the inherent dignity of all people. Awareness of the past coupled with action in the present will guide us in building new patterns of community life based on equality and fairness.
