Chronology of the Bahá'í Faith

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Date 1968-07-00, descending — sort earliest first

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1968 Jul In the United States a "Bahá'í Teacher and Speaker List" was compiled for distribution to goals committees and assemblies. 600 people were approached for inclusion on the list. [Bahá'í National Review Issue 13 January 1969 p7] Bahá'í Teacher and Speaker List; United States
1968 Jul The meaning of "Just Government" was clarified by The Universal House of Justice. The reply sent to an individual called attention to a letter to a believer dated September 7, 1937 in which the beloved Guardian said:
    "As regards the Bahá'í principle of obedience to just governments, what is meant here by just is recognized and well-established authority."
The Universal House of Justice further stated that in a letter to the National Teaching Committee for Central America dated July 3, 1948, the beloved Guardian, in explaining the statement in the Master's Will, said:
    "What the Master's statement really means is obedience to a duly constituted government, whatever that government may be in form. We are not the ones, as individual Bahá'ís to judge our government as just or unjust - for each believer would be sure to hold a different viewpoint, and within our own Bahá'í fold a hotbed of dissension would spring up and destroy our unity. We must build up our Bahá'í system, and leave the faulty systems of the world to go their way. We cannot change them through our becoming involved in them; on the contrary, they will destroy us."
The same believer who asked about the meaning of "just government" also asked whether or not Bahá'ís should own or buy guns to protect themselves and their families. The Universal House of Justice replied:
    "Under the present circumstances in the United States it is preferable that Bahá'ís not buy or own arms for their protection or the protection of their families."
[National Bahá'í Review No 7 July 1968 p2]		 Just Government; Guns; Bahá'í World Centre
1968 Jul Louis Joseph, the first Bahá'í indigenous to Dominica, enrolled in Roseau. First Bahá'ís by country or area; Roseau; Dominica first indigenous Bahá’í to Dominica
1968 Jul Christian and Elanzo Callwood, Norris Duport and Ethien Chinnery, the first people to become Bahá'ís on the island of Jost Van Dyke in the British Virgin Islands, enrolled. First Bahá'ís by country or area; Islands; Jost Van Dyke; British Virgin Islands first Bahá’ís in British Virgin Islands

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