Baha'is celebrate the festival of Ayyam-i-Ha each year from sunset on Feb. 25 to sunset of March 1 as a preparation for the Fast, which begins March 2 and ends March 20. During Ayyam-i-Ha, members of the Faith perform acts of charity, give gifts to friends and family, and attend social gatherings.

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As Christmas season went into full swing this year, Glen Fullmer's 7-year-old son came home from school with an assignment: Make a poster illustrating his family holiday traditions.

Every year we're asked, "How do Baha'is handle the winter holidays?" "When is the Baha'i gift-giving season?" "How do Baha'is view Christ?"

This year we spoke with Veda Mosavi, a Baha'i from Calif. who was raised by a Persian Baha'i father and a mother from a Baptist background, who became a Baha'i when Veda was young.

Rebecca Bonner, 9, has memorized enough Baha’i prayers to earn herself a shiny, golden badge that features the globe and has the words, “Unity of Mankind” resting proudly on the North Pole.

This year’s commemoration of Universal Children’s Day, on November 20, also marks the 20th anniversary of the Campaign for U.S. Ratification of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and 20 years of effort by the United Nations to give the world's children protected status through an inclusive, legally-binding human rights treaty. 

The Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1989 by a unanimous vote and was instituted as international law in 1990. The purpose behind drafting the CRC was to promote and protect all children worldwide.

Between the ages of 10 and 15 years old kids undergo tremendous transition. They're not children anymore.

The Baha'is of Chicago were well represented at the 79th annual Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic on Aug. 9, conducting wholesome, fun children’s activities at the picnic part of the event.

Brilliant Star, a bimonthly children’s magazine published by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States, has won an APEX 2008 Award of Excellence for the second year in a row.