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Abstract: List of pages at bahai.org (offsite) with reports, descriptions, and videos of youth events across the globe. The accompanying map gives an impression of the spread of the worldwide Bahá'í community. Notes: Mirrored from news.bahai.org/community-news/youth-conferences — visit that site to see the interactive map and the sortable list of conference reports. The bare-bones text below, lacking this functionality, is posted here only for cross-reference and linking purposes. |
About:(The following text and map are from news.bahai.org/community-news/youth-conferences, but do not include the javascript functionality of the original site. Specifically, the map at the top of news.bahai.org/community-news/youth-conferences has a clickable view for each continent, and it has a javascript allowing the list of conferences below to be sorted by date, location, or country. [-J.W., 2022])
On 8 February 2013, the Universal House of Justice addressed a message to the Bahá’ís of the world. Noting the decisive contribution made by young people on every continent to efforts aiming at the betterment of society, it announced the convocation of 95 youth conferences in locations that span the globe. The message stated:
To every generation of young believers comes an opportunity to make a contribution to the fortunes of humanity, unique to their time of life. For the present generation, the moment has come to reflect, to commit, to steel themselves for a life of service from which blessing will flow in abundance.
A few weeks later, and owing to the overwhelming response to its announcement in February, the House of Justice shared in a message its decision to convene an additional 19 conferences, bringing the total number of gatherings to 114.A further message dated 1 July 2013 from the House of Justice addressed to the participants in the 114 youth conferences provided the framework for the gatherings, exploring such themes as the characteristics inherent to the period of youth, the historical contribution of young people to the transformation of society, the responsibilities of the present generation of youth, the society-building power of the Bahá’í Teachings, and the importance of faith and tenacity to a life of service.
Reports, photographs, and audio-visual materials from the conferences will be added to this website as they become available.
Conference reports (sorted below by country; see the original website to see this list sortable by location and by date as well):
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