Happy Ridván to everyone!

Ridván is the king of Bahá’í festivals, celebrating Bahá’u'lláh’s declaration of His mission in the Najibiyyih Garden across the Tigris from Baghdad.

Like local Bahá’í communities across the world, our community in the Hertfordshire town of Welwyn elected its Local Spiritual Assembly, its local governing council. We even managed to elect our Local Assembly officers, since all members of the newly elected Assembly were present.

Next week, members of National Spiritual Assemblies (Bahá’í national governing councils) from all over the world will travel to the Bahá’í World Centre in Haifa, Israel, to participate in the election of the Universal House of Justice, the community’s world governing council.

Yours truly will be one of those privileged to take part in this glorious gathering.

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