Chronology: Date 1953-08-0

date	event	tags	firsts
1953 Aug	Udai Narain Singh arrived in Sikkim and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455; PH63]	Udai Narain Singh; Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Sikkim, India; India
1953 Aug	Edythe MacArthur arrived in the Queen Charlotte Islands (now Haida Gwaii) and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455; BWIM143-145]	Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Islands; Queen Charlotte Island, BC
1953 Jul - Aug	Amín and Sheila Banání, a Persian-American couple, settled in Athens-Kifissia in August 1953 and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh for Greece. [BW452] They were able to stay in Greece until 1958 when they were asked to leave by the government. [from an interview with Sheila Banani 10 November, 2022 on Thursday Night @7] See Professor Amin Banani, 1926–2013: A Prominent Scholar of Iranian Studies by Ehsan Yarshater in Iranian Studies, 2014, Vol 47 No 2 p347-351 for an obituary of Amin Banani.	Amin Banani; Sheila Banani; Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; In Memoriam; Athens, Greece; Greece
1953 Aug	Salísa Kirmání and Shírín Núrání arrived in Karikal and were named Knights of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:452]	Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Karikal
1953 Aug	Amír Húshmand Manúchihrí arrived in Liechtenstein and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:453]	Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Liechtenstein; Europe
1953 Aug	Shiyam Behari arrived in Pondicherry and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455]	Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Pondicherry, India; India
1953 2 Aug	Fred Schechter, an American, arrived in Djibouti and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for French Somaliland. [BW13:451] Mr Schechter went on to pioneer to several Latin American countries, he spent thirteen year on the Continental Board of Councillors for the Americas and served on the International Teaching Centre. He passed away on 27 January 2017 in California, U.S.A. He was 89 years old. [BWNS1149] See In Memoriam Fred Schechter: Bahá'í House of Worship Memorial Program.	Fred Schechter; Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Counsellors; International Teaching Centre, Members of; In Memoriam; Births and deaths; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); French Somaliland; Djibouti, East Africa
1953 Aug	'Abbás Vakíl arrived in Cyprus and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:450]	Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Cyprus
1953 Aug	Shawkat Nahví arrived in Pondicherry and was named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [BW13:455]	Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Pondicherry, India; India
1953 Aug	The Congo-Belgian colony had its first believers, identified under the term "The Spiritual Sowers". The story begins with Louis Selemani Bin Kimbulu (the first person to accept the Faith) and Sébastien Ilunga Ngoy Buanga Tumba, two Congolese bank officials who were living and working in neighbouring Burundi, where they received, from a servant working for a Western expatriate, a book of Bahá'í prayers which they did not hesitate to liken to a grimoire. Finding it interesting, they sent a letter for further clarification regarding the nature of the prayers to the Bahá'í Publishing House which published the book. In response to their correspondence, an American Bahá'í living in Usumbura, present-day Bujumbura, went to meet these two men. Some time after they met, and after conducting the independent search for Truth, they decided to become Bahá'ís. This is how they began to spread the "new message" to their other colleagues at the Bank, all Congolese living in eastern DRC. Very quickly, these two young bankers succeeded in finding souls receptive to the message of the Bahá'í teachings. They were 19 in all and constituted the nucleus called "Spiritual Sowers", the founders of the Faith in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [bahai.org; bahai.org; A Remarkable Response Film 4:18]	Louis Selemani Bin Kimbulu; Sébastien Ilunga Ngoy Buanga Tumba; Bujumbura, Burundi; Congo, Democratic Republic of (Zaire)	first believers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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