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Entrance to the Shrine of Baha'u'llah.
Entrance to the Shrine of Baha'u'llah.

Saturday, May 28th marks the anniversary of the Ascension of Baha’u'llah, the prophet-founder of the Baha’i Faith. Baha’u'llah passed away after a brief illness in 1892 outside of Akka, Israel.

Baha’u'llah—the “Glory of God”—is the Promised One foretold by all of the Divine Messengers of the past. Baha’u'llah delivered a new Revelation from God to humanity. Thousands of verses, letters and books flowed from His pen. In His Writings, He outlined a framework for the development of a global civilization which takes into account both the spiritual and material dimensions of human life. For this, He endured 40 years of imprisonment, torture and exile.

The Ascension of Baha’u’llah is one of nine holy days during the year on which Baha'is suspend work, if possible. The Holy Day starts at sunset on Friday, the 27th, and ends at sunset on Saturday, May 28th. As a result, the offices and studios of Radio Baha’i are closed for this period. The station will continue to air music and programs throughout the Holy Day.

Please join your local Baha’i community for their commemoration of the Ascension of Baha’u’llah, or you can join us on air for our observance of this Holy Day at 4:00 AM Saturday morning, which coincides with the actual time of His passing. For more information about Baha’u’llah, or the Baha’i Faith click on any of the links, or scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the links there.

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May 23rd, Baha'is around the world are celebrating the Declaration of the Bab. This Holy Day commemorates the day in 1844 when the Bab announced that He was a new divine Messenger, sent to herald a new age for humanity and to prepare the way for the coming of Baha'u'llah, the Glory of God.

The Declaration of the Bab, which starts after sunset on May 22nd and goes until sunset on, May 23rd, is one of nine holy days during the year on which Baha'is should suspend work, if possible. As a result, the Radio Baha'i offices or studios will be closed. The station will continue to air music and programs during this period.

Click here for more information on the Baha'i Faith..

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P1060907Wednesday, April 20th, is the First Day of the Ridvan Festival. This annual Baha’i festival commemorates the 12 days in 1863, from April 20th to May 1st, when Baha’u’llah, the founder of the Baha’i Faith, resided in a garden called Ridvan, in Baghdad, Iraq. While He was in the Garden of Ridvan, Baha’u’llah publicly proclaimed His mission as God’s messenger for this age, the promised one of all religions. The first, ninth and twelfth days of the Ridvan Festival are celebrated as holy days when work or school is suspended for Baha’is, if at all possible.

Since Wednesday is a Baha’i Holy Day, the staff of the station will not be working. So you won’t hear the program hosts doing their regular programs. If you want to know the name of a song that day, go to our website, wlgi.org, and click on Playing Now, or you might be able to just look at your radio, if it displays song and artist information. Our streaming player also gives song title, artist and album information.
We will air a special First Day of Ridvan program at 18:00 PM on Tuesday the 19th, and again at 3:00 PM on Wednesday, the 20th. Please join us for a joyous celebration in songs, prayers and readings.

Call the local Baha'i community near you, or check their website or Facebook page, for information about a Ridvan celebration nearest to you. Usually, communities observe this Holy Day at 4:00 PM.

So, when you meet a Bahá'í on Wednesday, wish him or her a Happy Ridvan! Or, post Happy Ridvan greetings on the Facebook Wall of your Bahá'í friends.

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The dawn of a new day.
The dawn of a new day.

Sunday, March 20th is Naw Rúz, the Baha’i New Year’s Day. The Baha’i New Year is on the same day as the spring equinox, March 20th, the first day of spring. For Baha'is, Naw Ruz marks the end of the annual 19-Day Fast and is one of the nine holy days of the year when work is suspended, if possible. As a result, there will be no one working in the Radio Baha’i studios on Sunday.

We will air a special Naw Rúz program at 7:30PM Saturday, 12Midnight, and 10:00 AM on Sunday the 20th. Please join us for a joyous celebration in songs, prayers and readings.

To satisfy your curiosity, here is a link to several online posts about Naw-Ruz:
http://bahaiblog.net/site/2015/03/8-great-posts-about-naw-ruz-the-bahai-new-year/

And here are some links about the Badi Calendar, the official name of the Baha'i Calendar):
http://bahaiblog.net/site/bahai-calendar/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtfvzI3TofM

When you meet one of your Baha’i friends on Sunday, wish him or her a Happy Naw Rúz! Or, post Happy Naw Rúz greetings on the Facebook Wall of your Baha’i friends, or Tweet them.

Happy Naw Ruz!

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CHARLESTON- Marian Wright Edelman was apparently destined for a life of service to humanity.

The lessons about helping others that her parents taught her and the abject poverty she saw in Mississippi in the 1950s and 1960s instilled in her the determination to do something to make a difference, the founder of the Children’s Defense Fund (CDF) told a standing room only audience at the Sottile Theatre at the College of Charleston Tuesday night.

"One of the earliest lessons I learned was that I am God's child and that nobody can look down on me and because we are all God's children, that I can look down on nobody," said the Bennettsville, SC, native who founded the CDF in 1973. "Those with financial, material, intellectual and other kinds of wealth have a responsibility to share with others" to promote justice and equality.

Edelman's speech was the first in the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture's Race and Social Justice Initiative, a response to recent tragic events in the Charleston area, including the shooting death of Walter Scott by a police officer in April 2015 and the mass shooting at Mother Emanuel AME Church in June 2015.

A graduate of Yale Law School and the first African American woman admitted to the Mississippi Bar, Edelman spoke of the continuing need to fight for justice and equality in an "ethically-polluted" society that is often indifferent to such values.
"It appears that we have too often lost the sense of what is important," she said. "Truth-telling and morality seem to have become unimportant. Yet, we live in a nation that spends three times more to house prison inmates than on public school students. That's about the dumbest investment I can think of. Mass incarceration is the new slavery."

Before founding the CDF, Edelman had been director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund office in Jackson, Mississippi. She is also the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Prize" Fellowship and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award.

"We've got to save our nation's soul," she said, as she turned her remarks towards the poor treatment many children in the United States receive and the danger that she said that presents for the nation. "Black children, Latino children and Native American children can take nothing for granted."

Referring to recent national discourse about immigration and national security threats, she said that "the real enemy is the failure to invest sufficiently in all of our children. Leaving children to struggle and trying to grow up in an ethically-polluted society for the very things they need to thrive is the real national security issue."
Edelman ended her speech by exhorting the audience to be vigilant in the struggle for justice, fairness and equality for all people. Despite the challenges, her life and work and that of people like SC natives Benjamin E. Mays and Mary McLeod Bethune confirm what is possible when one is determined that nothing can stop them.

"Be a strategic flea" and bite the big dog of injustice and inequality, she said. "Do all you can where you can with what you have. With enough fleas biting him, the biggest dog will have to move."

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