The Bahá'í Faith is a religion followed by several million people in the world, from all countries and all backgrounds.

• All these people believe in the unity of mankind - that all people matter, and that the world should be run as one country for the benefit of everyone.
  
  
• They believe that it is the differences between us which make life interesting, and that we should cherish these differences, not ignore them.
  
  
• They believe that there has only ever been one religion - the religion of God. God sent His Messengers to different places at different times so that everyone in the world could hear about Him.
  
  
• Bahá'ís believe that there is only one God, though people may call Him by different names, God is Something we can never really understand: we can only learn about Him through His creation and His Messengers.
  
  
• Bahá'ís follow Baháúlláh, the latest in a long time of Messengers sent by God to tell us how we should live and behave. The name Baháúlláh means the Glory of God. Although He passed to next world nearly a hundred years ago, Baháúlláh wrote down everything we need to know to be able to build a better life here on earth and in the world to come.
  Bahá'ís believe that Christ, Muhammad, Budda, Moses and Krishna were all Messengers from God.
  
  
• These Messengers all said basically the same thing - that we should love God and love one another, that we shoal be honest, truthful, kind, trustworthy, humble. It was only their social teachings, which were different: this is because they were meant for a particular time and place. Now we are part of a world society new laws are necessary.
  All of these Messengers promised a time when a great Messenger would come to bring peace to the whole world. Bahá'ís believe that Baháúlláh was that Messenger and that the time for peace is now

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