2024

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2024 was a leap year of the Gregorian calendar, the 2024th year of the Common Era (CE), the 24th year of the 21st century, and the 5th year of the 2020s decade. 2024 corresponds to the years 180–181 of the Bahá'í Era (BE) according to the Badi calendar.

Events

January

• The Kitáb-i-Aqdas is officially published in Polish for the first time.
• Over 150 Iranian human rights advocates and activists sign a public statement condemning a new wave of arrests of Bahá’ís in Iran.
• The Bahá’í Office of Public Affairs for Kazakhstan holds a series of national gatherings inviting scientists, government officials, and representatives of faith communities to discuss family life.

February

• The Bahá’í Office of External Affairs for Bolivia holds a forum on ensuring equal educational opportunities for women and men which is attended by government officials, civil society leaders, academics, and journalists.

March

• A Bahá’í radio station based in Labranza, Chile, begins a national archive project to collect recordings of the Mapuche culture.

April

• The Centenary of the National Spiritual Assembly of India is commemorated at the New Delhi House of Worship.
• Restoration of an apartment where ‘Abdu’l-Bahá stayed in Bristol, England, in 1911 is completed by the Bahá’í community of the United Kingdom.

May

• A Bahá’í House of Worship is dedicated in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.

June

• The Kitáb-i-Aqdas is published in Swahili for the first time with the occasion being commemorated at an event in Tanzania.

July

• The Bahá’í community of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil provides assistance to the wider community through grassroots community networks after the region is impacted by severe flooding.
• The 60th Anniversary of the Bahá’í House of Worship in Langenhain, Germany, is commemorated.

August

• Bahá’ís abducted in Sanaa, Yemen, in May 2023 due to their religion are released from imprisonment.

September

• Construction aiming to renovate the Shrine of the Báb and increase accessibility by enhancing walkways begins.

October

• The Bahá’í community of Azerbaijan collaborates with the Azerbaijan State Committee on Religious Associations to hold a conference on the harmony between science and religion.
• The Universal House of Justice announces that National Mashriqu’l-Adhkár's are to be constructed in Brasília, Brazil, and Lilongwe, Malawi, and a local Mashriqu’l-Adhkár is to be constructed in Batouri, Cameroon.

November

• A Bahá’í facilitated youth group in Germany creates a short film on the impact of social media on genuine friendship which is screened at a small cinema in Potsdam.
• A Bahá’í Youth Conference is held in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and attended by seven hundred youth who discuss how communities can embody the funamental principles of peace through practical action.
• Construction on the surroundings of the Shrine of the Báb to increase accessibility are completed.
• A series of conferences are facilitated by the Bahá’í community of Bahrain at which the potential for the concept of the family to foster societal transformation is discussed. The conferences are attended by over four hundred people.
• A symposium on how artistic expression can transform society is held at the Bahá’í House of Worship in New Delhi, India.

December

• A Bahá’í Youth Conference in Maradi, Niger, is held which is attended by over three hundred youth. The role youth can play in building peaceful communities is discussed.
• Representatives of the Bahá’í International Community participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Baku, Azerbaijan.
• The United Nations General Assembly votes in favor of a resolution rebuking Iran for human rights violations mentioning its criminalization of non-Muslim religious expression including the Bahá’í Faith.
• Counsellor Omid Seioshanseian is arrested while in Egypt and detained for thirteen hours at Cairo International Airport during which he was physically mistreated, interrogated, and threatened, and later forced to record a denial that he was mistreated while under duress.

Deaths

• October 9: Husayn Banani, Persian Canadian Bahá’í who served on several administrative institutions of the Faith in Canada.

Publications

Compilations

• Messages from the Universal House of Justice, 2001-2022: The Fifth Epoch of the Formative Age
• Returning Home: Words of Comfort at the End of Life, compiled by Corinne Randall.

Books

• The Science and Art of Being Human by Margaret Appa.
• A European Union Youth Strategy: Some Considerations by the Bahá’í International Community.
• In the Vanguard: The Role of Youth in an Ever-Advancing Global Society by the Bahá’í International Community.
• Reimagining the Role of Institutions in Building Gender-Equal Societies by the Bahá’í International Community.
• Religious Perspectives on the Narratives of America: The Search for Just, Honest, Inclusive and Forward-looking Tellings published by the Bahá’í Office of Public Affairs of the United States & Aspen Institute’s Religion and Society Program.
• The Olympic Games: Advancing the Oneness of Humanity by Kiser Barnes.
• How you can contribute to a more prosperous, just & sustainable organization published by Ethical Business Building the Future.
• When the Smoke Cleared by Helen Flynn, illustrated Louisa Kwan Shabani.
• A Very Old Neighbourhood by Dicy Hall.
• Quddús: The First in Rank by Boris Handal.
• ‘Adasíyyih: The Story of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's Model Farming Community by Paul Hanley.
• Visions of the Sacred: Conversations with Bahá’í Artists by Kim MacQueen.
• The Coming of the Glory: Volume III by Eileen Maddocks.
• Dr. Susan I. Moody's Travels to Iran, 1909-1934: Courageous Odyssey by Hoda Mahmoudi.
• Hands of the Cause of God: Volume IV by Elika Mahony.
• Moments of Truth by Keith McDonald.
• Reality Beyond the Visible by Fazel Naghdy.
• The Baha'i Faith: Doctrinal and Historical Explorations edited by Moojan Momen and Zackery Mirza Heern.
• Eyes to the Ages: A Bahá’í-Inspired Philosophy of History by Harold Rosen.
• A Tale of Love: More Prison Poems by Mahvash Sabet, translated by Sandra Lynn Hutchison and Shahin Mowzoon.
• Towards the Summit of Reality: An Introduction to the Study of Baha’u’llah's Seven Valleys and Four Valleys, Second Edition, by Julio Savi.
• Sparks of Fire: Unknown Poetry of Táhirih by Ṭáhirih, translated by John S. Hatcher and Amrollah Hemmat.
• Second Century Believers by Deborah Clark Vance.
• Shantha and Chellie: A Story of Faith, Love and Service by Padma Sundram Wong & Susheel Sundram Croft.
• ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Europe, 1912-1913 by Mírzá Maḥmúd-i-Zarqání, translated by Adib Masumian and Farnaz Masumian.

Videos

• For the Betterment of Society published by the Bahá’í Community of Kazakhstan.