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Messages to the Bahá'í World: 1950-1957
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Pages 85-86
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Achievements--Supplementary Report
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Share National Assemblies following announcement supplementing
message recently addressed to delegates of the Bahá'í Conventions.
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Annual elections of the second year, second decade, of the second
Bahá'í century, were signalized by the formation of the first
historic local Assemblies in communities as diversified and far
apart as Mecca, Qiblih of Islamic world, Muscat and Riaz, situated
on the shore and in the heart of the Arabian Peninsula; in the
Bahamas, British West Indies; in Diu Island, Kuala Lumpur, Malacca,
Sargodha, Saigon, in Southeast Asia; Monte Carlo, Basel,
Mongat, Orleans, Marseilles, Bergen, Cologne, in Europe; in Reunion
Island, Zanzibar, Seychelles, Madagascar, in the Indian
Ocean; in the holy cities of Kazímayn and Najaf, strongholds of
Shí'ih orthodoxy in `Iráq, in addition to the group already established
in Kárbilá; Teneriffe and Las Palmas, in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Africa alone boasts the establishment of above seventy new Assemblies,
raising the total number established since the launching of
the systematic simultaneous teaching campaigns on the African continent
four years ago to well above one hundred. Uganda in particular
achieved the unique, memorable feat of the formation of
seventeen new Assemblies, swelling number of Assemblies to forty-one,
localities to over hundred, total believers to almost nine hundred.
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The sacred dust of the Báb's infant son, extolled in the Qayyúmu'l-Asmá
was respectfully and ceremoniously transferred on
the anniversary of his Father's martyrdom, in the presence of pilgrims
and resident believers to the Bahá'í cemetery in Shíráz, the
prelude to the translation to the same spot of the remains of the
Báb's beloved and long-suffering consort.
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Five additional incorporations of local Assemblies, including
Suva, Fiji.
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A pioneer has embarked for Loyalty Island, the last remaining
unopened island in the Pacific Ocean outside the Soviet orbit.
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Negotiations for the purchase of national Haziras in Colombo
and Jakarta are nearing completion.
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Preliminary steps have been undertaken for the establishment
of a Bahá'í Publishing Trust in Tihrán.
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The design for the Mother Temple in the cradle of the Faith
was unveiled in the presence of pilgrims and resident believers assembled
within the Harám-i-Aqdas on the first day of Ridván.
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--Shoghi
[Cablegram, April 30, 1955]
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