Product Description
by The Baha'i Chair for World Peace (Editor), The Universal House of Justice (Author)
The 30th Anniversary Special Edition of The Promise of World Peace, prepared for publication by the Bah ' Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland, College Park, compiles the original 1985 message from the Universal House of Justice to the peoples of the world in ten languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Hindi, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swahili. The statement calls attention to the value of establishing agreement on principles from which people of goodwill can devise practical solutions to the barriers to peace.
Author Biography
The Universal House of Justice is the international governing council of the Bahá'í Faith. Its creation was ordained by Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith. Bahá'u'lláh conferred authority upon the Universal House of Justice to exert a positive influence on the welfare of humankind, to promote education, peace and global prosperity, and to safeguard human honor and the position of religion.
