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1957 Oct |
The third contingent of Hands of the Cause of God was appointed: Enoch Olinga, William Sears, John Robarts, Hasan Balyuzi, John Ferraby, Collis Featherstone, Rahmatu'lláh Muhájir and Abu'l-Qásim Faizí. [GBF111; MBW127; PP254, 442; SS47]
See TG160 for the story of how Enoch Olinga reacted to the news of being appointed a Hand of the Cause of God. |
- Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Appointments; Hands of the Cause, Contingents; Hands of the Cause, Third Contingent; Enoch Olinga; William Sears; John Robarts; Hasan Balyuzi; John Ferraby; Collis Featherstone; Rahmatullah Muhajir; Abu'l-Qasim Faizi; Haifa, Israel |
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1957 Oct |
From a message from the Guardian dated October 1957
Number of Bahá'í Centres from 2500 to 4500
Number of sovereign States and Dependencies: from 128 to 254
Number of National and Regional Spiritual Assemblies; from 12 to 26
Number of Local Spiritual Assemblies; more than 1,000
Number of islands open to the Faith: 70
The erection and completion of the International Bahá'í Archives Building at a cost of $250M
The enlargement of
the scope of Bahá'í international endowments
in the twin cities of 'Akka and Haifa at a present value of $5.5m
The Bahá'í holdings in Iran estimated at over 40m tumans
The acquisition of 48 National Haziratu'l-Quds at more than $500
The founding of Bahá'í national endowments in no less than 50 capitals and chief cities on all five continents, at a cost of at least $150,000
The initiation of the construction of the Mother Temples of both Africa and Australia
The purchase of 11 Temple sites for over $400,000
The incorporation of over 90 national and local Spiritual assemblies raising the global total to over 200
The translation of Bahá'í literature into 148 languages bringing the total to 237
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Statistics; Endowments; - Bahá'í World Centre |
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1957 Oct |
Shoghi Effendi designated the Hands of the Cause the 'Chief Stewards of Bahá'u'lláh's embryonic World commonwealth'. [MBW127] |
- Hands of the Cause; - Hands of the Cause, Institution; Shoghi Effendi, Life of; Appointed arm; Shoghi Effendi, Basic timeline; - Basic timeline, Expanded; Shoghi Effendi, Works of; - Bahá'í World Centre |
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1957 Oct |
Shoghi Effendi called for the convocation of a series of Intercontinental Conferences to be held successively in Kampala, Uganda (Regional Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Central and East Africa); Sydney, Australia (National Spiritual Assembly of the
Bahá'ís of Australia); Chicago, United States (National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States of America,; Frankfurt, Germany (National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Germany and: Austria); and Djakarta, Indonesia (Regional Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of South-East Asia). [BW13:311–12; MBW125]
The five-fold purpose of the International Conferences was:
- offering
humble thanksgiving to the
Divine Author of our Faith, Who has
graciously enabled His followers,
during a period of deepening anxiety
and amidst the confusion and
uncertainties of a critical phase in
the fortunes of mankind,
- to prosecute
uninterruptedly the Ten-Year
Plan formulated for the execution of
the Grand Design conceived by 'Abdu'l-Bahá,
- of reviewing and celebrating
the series of signal victories
won so rapidly in the course of each
of the campaigns of this world-encircling
Crusade,
- of deliberating on
ways and means that will insure its
triumphant consummation,
- and of
lending simultaneously a powerful
impetus, the world over, to the vital
process of individual conversion -the
preeminent purpose underlying
the Plan in all its ramifications -
and to the construction and completion
of the three Mother Temples
to be built in the European, the
African, and Australian continents. [CBN No 94 Nov 1957 p1]
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Conferences, Bahá'í; Conferences, Teaching; - Conferences, Intercontinental; Ten Year Crusade; - Bahá'í World Centre; Kampala, Uganda; Uganda; Sydney, Australia; Australia; Chicago, IL; USA; Frankfurt, Germany; Germany; Jakarta, Indonesia; Indonesia |
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1957 Oct |
Shoghi Effendi announced the appointment of a second Auxiliary Board responsible for the protection of the Faith. [MBW127–128; PP442] |
Auxiliary board members; Assistants; Appointed arm; - Bahá'í World Centre |
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Try also a shorter date like 1957-1 or 1957
try also the Chronology Canada — 1957-10 or 1957-1 or 1957
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