Ethics and Morality

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• Moral Leadership

  The dramatic emergence, during the last decade, of thousands of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) throughout the world, particularly in the South, represents a highly significant social phenomenon. With appropriate structure and leadership, NGOs have a potential to provide the type of moral leadership and vision that is required if we are to effectively promote, through actions, those essential values that must reorient the development process so that it is sensitive to and meets the needs of all who share the planet. More >

• Statement to the Millennium World Peace Summit

  Our world is undergoing rapid and far-reaching changes, drawing humanity ever closer together, into what some have called a global village. Cultures and peoples that, for most of history, have lived in isolation from one another are now interacting face-to-face, on a daily basis. More >

• Overcoming Public Corruption: A Bahá'í Perspective

  Prepared by the Bahá'í International Community and presented at the intergovernmental Global Forum on Fighting Corruption II. More >

• The Imperative for Moral Education

  The case for moral education is made most starkly by asking: Would this century's notorious death camps and campaigns of ethnic or racial purging have occurred if the world's population had achieved a higher level of moral development? More >

• Morality and Spiritual Growth

  The ultimate aim in life of every human soul, the Bahá'í writings state, should be to attain moral and spiritual excellence—to align one's inner being and outward behavior with the will of an all-loving Creator. That each individual has been bestowed with a unique destiny by God—a destiny which unfolds in accordance with the free exercise of the choices and opportunities presented in life—lies at the center of Bahá'í belief . More >

• Trustworthiness: A Cardinal Bahá'í Virtue

  Selections from the Bahá'í holy writings on the subject of trustworthiness. More >