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1965 20 Sep | The obligation that Bahá'ís should seek exemption from combatant service was specifically affirmed by the Universal House of Justice in a letter to the American National Spiritual Assembly. That letter said:It is for each believer, under pain of his own conscience, to determine for himself what his actions should be, bearing in mind that the application of these principles is the spiritual obligation of every Bahá'í. It is rather for your Assembly to see that adequate instruction is provided so that the friends will let these principles be mirrored forth in their actions, and that they will be so steadfast in their love for Bahá'u'lláh that it would be unthinkable for them to willingly place themselves in a position where they must take human life.[Universal House of Justice letter to the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States ref41] |
Armed Forces; Military; Weapons; War (general); USA | ||
1965 19 Sep | Walter Garland and Miss Annie Lourie Williams, the first to become Bahá'ís on Grand Turk Island, enrolled. | First Bahá'ís by country or area; Grand Turk Island; Central America | first Bahá’ís on Grand Turk Island | |
1965 Aug | Thaddeus Smith, Clara Smith, Nando Valle, Evert Scott, Gloria Scott, Thomas Seymour and Lawrence Jebbers, the first to become Bahá'ís in the Cayman Islands, enrolled in George Town owing to the efforts of Ivan A. Graham, a Jamaican Bahá'í. | First Bahá'ís by country or area; Islands; George Town, Cayman Islands; Cayman Islands | first Bahá’ís in Cayman Islands | |
1965 1 Aug | Mrs Ridván Sadeghzadeh and Mrs Parvine Djoneidi and their children arrived in Niamey, Niger, from Tihrán, the first Bahá'ís to settle in the country. | First travel teachers and pioneers; Niamey; Niger | first Bahá’ís to settle in Niger | |
1965 22 Jul | Leroy Ioas, Hand of the Cause of God, passed away in Haifa. (b.15 February 1896 in Wilmington, IL). He was known as "the Guardian's Hercules" and was praised by Shoghi Effendi for his "tireless vigilance, self-sacrifice, and devotion to the Cause in all its multiple fields of activity, in 'prodigious labours' and his 'stupendous efforts'. [BW14:291-300, VV7]
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Leroy Ioas; - Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Births and deaths; In Memoriam; Hands of the Cause, First Contingent; Anita Ioas Chapman; Haifa, Israel; Wilmington, IL; USA | ||
1965 15 Jul | Hendrik Olsen, the first indigenous Greenlander to become a Bahá'í, enrolled.
He translated the first literature to Greenlandic and in July 1965 he invited Johanne Sorensen Hoeg to travel to Greenland. She visited several locations where she gave public speeches for approximately 50 to 100 people. Hendrik declared his faith as the first Bahá’í in Greenland. [Bahá'í Chronicles Johanne Sorensen Hoeg] |
Hendrik Olsen; First Bahá'ís by country or area; Greenland | first indigenous Bahá’í in Greenland | |
1965 Ridván | The first local spiritual assembly in Iceland was formed in Reykjavik. Its members were Asgeir Einarsson, Kirsten Bonnevie, Florence Grindlay, Jessie Echevarria, Carl John Spencer, Charles Grindlay, Liesel Becker, Barbel Thinat and Nicholas Echevarria. [Bahá'í News No 417 10 December 1965 p10]
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Local Spiritual Assembly, formation; Reykjavik, Iceland; Iceland | first LSA Iceland | |
1965 Apr | Franklin Bozor, an agricultural labourer, and Pierre Defoe were the first persons to become Bahá'ís in Guadeloupe. [Guadeloupe by Daniel Caillaud] | First Bahá'ís by country or area; Guadeloupe | first Bahá’ís Guadeloupe | |
1965 23 Mar | The case filed by the followers of Charles Mason Remey against the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States was dismissed on technical grounds. [BW14:95]
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Charles Mason Remey; Covenant-breakers; National Spiritual Assemblies; Court cases; Copyright and trademarks; USA | ||
1965 18 Mar | The Bahá'í International Community established its own offices in the United Nations Plaza Building in New York. [BW14:90, BIC-History] | Bahá'í International Community; United Nations; New York, USA | ||
1965 Feb | Jean and Ivanie Désert and their three children arrived in Guadeloupe from Haiti, the first Bahá'ís to settle on the island. [Guadeloupe by Daniel Caillaud] | First Bahá'ís by country or area; Guadeloupe | first Bahá’ís to settle on Guadeloupe | |
1965 (In the year) | The great, great, granddaughter of Chief Sitting Bull, Ina McNeil, became a Baha'i. She was born on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in South Dakota and is a member of the Hunkpapa Lakota tribe and the first Lakota to become a Bahá'í.
She was convinced of the truth of the Bahá'í Revelation because of the similarities between it and her Lakota heritage; to cite two examples, the legend of the return of White Buffalo Calf Maiden and the prophecies of Black Elk and his vision of Bahá'u'lláh. [Article by Radiance Talley] |
Ina McNeil; Chief Sitting Bull; White Buffalo Calf Maiden; Black Elk; Long Island, NY; New York, USA; Standing Rock Sioux Reservation; South Dakota, USA | Ina McNeil become the first Lakota to become a Bahá'í. | |
1965 (In the year) | Emma Reinert, the first Faroese to become a Bahá'í, enrolled. | First Bahá'ís by country or area; Faroe Islands, Denmark | first Faroese Bahá’í | |
1965 (In the year) | Nils and Sigrid Rutfjäll, the first Samer (Lapps) to become Bahá'ís, enrolled in northern Norway. [BW5:483] | First believers by background; Indigenous people; Sámi people; Sápmi; Norway | first Samer (Lapps) Bahá’ís | |
1965 (In the year) | William Carr visited Alert in Canada, only 800 km from the North Pole and the most northerly inhabited location in the world. | William Carr; Arctic; Alert, NU; Canada | ||
1965 (In the year) | The first pioneer to the San Andrés and Providencia Islands settled there briefly. | First travel teachers and pioneers; San Andres and Providencia Islands | first pioneer to the San Andrés and Providencia Islands | |
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