The Bahá’ís should give up the celebrating of Christian Holy
Days such as Christmas. The same applies to Bahá’ís of Jewish and Moslem
extraction etc. However, this is not a thing for the Spiritual Assemblies to
enforce now; but each one should conscientiously begin to do this―otherwise,
people will never know we are members of a new religion, but will think we are
just people believing two or three things at the same time.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter
dated 15 August 1957 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, quoted by the
Universal House of Justice in a letter written on its behalf dated 6 November
1986; ‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1986-2001)
