The Bahá'í Faith is the youngest of the world’s independent religions. Its founder, Bahá'u'lláh (1817-1892), is regarded by Bahá'ís as the most recent in the line of Messengers of God that stretches back beyond recorded time and that includes Abraham, Moses, Buddha, Krishna, Zoroaster, Christ and Muhammad.

The central theme of Bahá'u'lláh's message is that humanity is one single race and that the day has come for its unification in one global society. One of the purposes of the Bahá'í Faith is to help make this possible. A worldwide community of some five million Bahá'ís, representative of most of the nations, races and cultures on earth, is working to give Bahá'u'lláh's teachings practical effect. Their experience will be a source of encouragement to all who share their vision of humanity as one global family and the earth as one homeland.

Among the principles which the Bahá'í Faith promotes as vital to the achievement of this goal are:

• The abandonment of all forms of prejudice
• Assurance to women of full equality of opportunity with men
• Recognition of the unity and relativity of religious truth
• The elimination of extremes of poverty and wealth
• The realization of universal education
• The responsibility of each person to independently search for truth
• The establishment of a global commonwealth of nations
• Recognition that true religion is in harmony with reason and the pursuit of scientific knowledge

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