PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Little Tina Rose Wome came into the world on 28 January in a makeshift clinic, fashioned from a classroom at the Anis Zunuzi Baha'i School on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince.

On October 1, 2009, Baha'is attended a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing titled, “Violence Against Women: Global Costs and Consequences.” 

Violence against women and girls represents a global problem with great health, economic development, and human rights implications. At least one out of every three women and girls worldwide experience violence or abuse in her lifetime, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Violence against women and girls is a human rights violation, a public health epidemic and a barrier to solving global challenges, such as extreme poverty and armed conflict.

Imagine a world in which even the remotest inhabitants have access to good healthcare. That’s the vision of Health for Humanity, an international, not-for-profit, Baha'i-inspired organization that works with local partners to improve the health of their populations.

Hit with a major illness, Craig Farnsworth has found great comfort in the prayers and writings of the Baha'i Faith.

As soon as he learned he had a brain tumor, which after removal was diagnosed as an aggressive form of cancer, Craig Farnsworth did the opposite of what most people would do: He bypassed the usual stages of response -- grief, denial, anger, bargaining, and depression – and started on a spiritual path of healing.

When "staying connected" means nothing more than being able to get on the Internet, personal relationships suffer. Depression, anxiety and other problems take hold, studies show, especially in kids and teens who don't have healthy, face-to-face relationships.

A statement by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States - published in 2002