SANTA ROSA DE COPAN, Honduras — Having a belief system is not so difficult, said 25-year-old Nava, participating in a recent university seminar in Honduras. The challenging part is building your life around your beliefs.

More than 1,500 young people addressed this challenge at recent Baha’i gatherings in five countries – Honduras, Italy, Australia, England, and the Philippines.

The youth are trying to examine their lives at a time when they have the opportunity to develop a lifestyle and career path that incorporate the values and activities which they believe can shape the kind of world they want to live in.

Nava Kavelin, of San Juan, Puerto Rico, helped facilitate sessions for some of the 60 university students from Central America who signed up for a 10-day seminar in Santa Rosa de Copan in early January.

Participants explored educational paths in light of their beliefs, said Ms. Kavelin. Among the professions they discussed was advertising.

“We looked at the mass media and the messages it communicates. We talked about how the media can paint people in a less-than-favorable light – yet as Baha’is we believe in promoting the nobility of man,” Ms. Kavelin said.

“The question for university students becomes, how will I use my degree to promote the values I agree with – and to not promote values that I don’t agree with.”

Read the full article from the Baha’i World News Service.