Bahá’í World News Service
National Spiritual Assembly
nsa@bahai.org.uk
5 April 2017
17 Bahá 174 B.E.
All believers in the United Kingdom
Dearly loved friends,
The National Spiritual Assembly is pleased to share with you news received from the Universal House of Justice about an important advance in the development of the online Bahá’í World News Service, located at http://news.bahai.org
In a letter to all National Spiritual Assemblies, dated 19 March 2017, the House of Justice wrote:
Efforts undertaken over the last several years have allowed the News Service to offer a window on certain dimensions of how the members of the Bahá’í community are applying the teachings of Baha’u’llah and striving to contribute to the betterment of society, providing thereby a glimpse of constructive processes unfolding across the globe. The accounts featured and the insights from practical experience they contain have increasingly stimulated meaningful conversations amongst Bahá’ís and their friends, and the News Service has emerged as a promising instrument to reinforce the current endeavours of the Bahá’í community. To build on these strengths, steps have now been taken to further enhance the News Service through the refinement of the website’s design and presentation across various types of devices, the addition of multimedia elements, the introduction of mobile applications and the improvement of ways to share articles and features on social media. It is envisaged that in time the News Service will also be made available in all the languages of the Bahai.org site.
The National Spiritual Assembly warmly encourages the friends to make use of the Bahá’í World News Service’s email subscription feature, so that they may avail themselves of this opportunity to become increasingly well-informed about latest developments around the Bahá’í world, and draw upon these inspiring stories as a stimulus for their conversations with their friends, who could also be encouraged to subscribe.
With loving Bahá’í greetings,
Patrick O’Mara,
Secretary
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