Baha\'is to celebrate Christmas in Haifa, Israel

A worker puts the finishing touches on a display of a Christmas tree, a crescent, and a menorah at the main traffic circle in front of the Bahai Gardens in Haifa for the Festival of Festivals, December 2014. (photo credit: Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

 

Shoghi Effendi : Baha\'is should discontinue observing holidays as Christmas and New Years

 

Although Shoghi Effendi Said :

“As regards the celebration of the Christian Holiday by the believers; it is surely preferable and even highly advisable that the friends should in their relation to each other discontinue observing such holidays as Christmas and New Years, and to have their festival gatherings of this nature instead during the Intercalary Days and Naw-Rúz….”

www.bahaism.blogspot.com