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1976 12 Sep His Highness Malietoa Tanumafili II of Western Samoa visited the resting place of Shoghi Effendi. [BW17:69; VV22] Malietoa Tanumafili II of Western Samoa; Shoghi Effendi, Resting place of; Samoa; London, England; United Kingdom
1976 3 – 6 Aug An International Teaching Conference was held in Paris, attended by some 5,700 Bahá'ís. [BW17:81; DM416; VV33]
  • For the message of the Universal House of Justice see BW17:131–2.
  • For the message of Kurt Waldheim, Secretary-General of the United Nations, see BW17:140.
  • For pictures see BW17:109, 117–19.
    		•  Kurt Waldheim; United Nations; United Nations, Secretary-Generals; Conferences, Bahá'í; Conferences, Teaching; - Conferences, International; Teaching; Paris, France; France; - Europe
    1976 23 – 25 Jul An International Teaching Conference was held in Anchorage, Alaska, attended by 1,005 Bahá'ís. [BW17:81]
  • For the message of the Universal House of Justice see BW17:130–1.
  • For pictures see BW17:110, 113, 116–17.
    		•  Conferences, Bahá'í; Conferences, Teaching; - Conferences, International; Teaching; Anchorage, AK; Alaska, USA; USA
    1976 9 – 11 Jul An International Youth Conference was held in Ivory Coast, attended by nearly 200 Bahá'ís. [BW17:150, 153] Conferences, Bahá'í; - Conferences, International; Conferences, Youth; Youth; Ivory Coast; - Africa
    1976 5 – 8 Jul An International Teaching Conference was held in Helsinki, Finland, attended by some 950 Bahá'ís. [BW17:81; VV33]
  • For the message of the Universal House of Justice see BW17:129–30.
  • For pictures see BW17:109, 112, 114–15.
    		•  Conferences, Bahá'í; Conferences, Teaching; - Conferences, International; Teaching; Helsinki, Finland; Finland
    1976 7 May Saichiro Fujita, (b. 1886) the second Japanese to become a Bahá'í, passed away in Haifa. [BW17:406; Bahá'í Canada No 294 June 1996 p6]
  • For his obituary see BW17:406–8.
  • 1903 came to California for education.
  • 1905 became a Bahá'í (Mrs. Kathryn Frankland)
  • 1912 joined 'Abdu'l-Bahá's party in Chicago as they were near departure for California.
  • 1919 came to the Holy Land after studying electricity and horticulture.
  • 1928 Shoghi Effendi sent him back to Japan with the war impending.
  • 1955 returned to the Holy Land.
  • Was buried in the Bahá'í Cemetery in Haifa.
  • References: Traces That Remain and Japan Will Turn Ablaze
    		•  Saichiro Fujita; In Memoriam; Births and deaths; Haifa, Israel
    1976 May Bahá'í activities in Mali were restricted by order of the government and the decree of recognition of the Faith suspended. [BW17:81] Persecution, Mali; - Persecution, Bans; - Persecution; National Spiritual Assembly, formation; Mali
    1976 24 Apr The passing of Mark George Tobey (b. December 11, 1890 Centerville, Wisconsin – d. April 24, 1976 Basel, Switzerland) [Bahá'í News page 341, Wiki, VV119]
  • He had been introduced to the Faith by Bernard Leach. [OPOP223]
  • Another version is that In 1918 Mark Tobey came in contact with Juliet Thompson and posed for her. During the session Tobey read some Bahá'í literature and accepted an invitation to Green Acre where he converted. [Seitz, William Chapin (1980). Mark Tobey. Ayer Publishing. p. 44]
  • Tobey was one of the twentieth century's most cosmopolitan of artists. An inveterate traveler—he eventually settled in Basel, Switzerland—he was always better known in Europe than in his homeland.
  • His mature 'white writing' works are made up of pulsing webs of lines inspired by oriental calligraphy, explicitly acknowledged the direct influence of the Bahá'í Faith on his painting. It has been said that Tobey "made line the symbol of spiritual illumination, human communication and migration, natural form and process, and movement between levels of consciousness." He often stated, "that there can be no break between nature, art, science, religion, and personal life".
  • See Bahá'í World 1994-95 pg248 for an article by Anne Boyles entitled "The Language of the Heart: Arts in the Bahá'í World Community" for mention of Mark Tobey.
  • For his obituary see BW17:401–4.
  • Towards the end of his life, Tobey was the recipient of some of the highest distinctions that the European art scene of his time could bestow. He won the gold medal at the Venice Biennale in 1958—the first American painter to do so since 1895. In 1961, a major retrospective of his work was held at the Louvre in Paris, an unprecedented achievement for a living and American artist.
  • See The Journal of Bahá'í Studies, Volume 26, number 4 – Winter 2016 p94 for an article by Anne Gordon Perry entitled Anne Gould Hauberg and Mark Tobey: Lives Lived for Art, Cultivated by Spirit.
  • An exhibition, Mark Tobey: Threading Light showed at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, 6 May to 10 September 2017 and at the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 4 November 2017–11 March 2018.
  • An example of some of his works.
  • See World Order Vol 11 No 3 Spring 1977 for the following articles:
    • The Days with Mark Tobey by Marzieh Gail
    • Mark, Dear Mark by Bernard Leach
    • Memories of Mark Tobey by Firuz Kazemzahed
    • The Dot and the Circle by Mark Tobey
    		•  In Memoriam; Mark Tobey; Bernard Leach; Anne Gould Hauberg; Arts; Painting; Centerville, WI; Wisconsin, USA; USA; Basel, Switzerland; Switzerland
    1976 Ridván The National Spiritual Assembly of Swaziland and Mozambique was given the added responsibility of administering the Faith in Angola and therefore became the National Spiritual Assembly of Swaziland, Mozambique, and Angola. [BN no 608 November 1981 p10] National Spiritual Assembly, formation; Swaziland; Mozambique; Angola
    1976 24 – 25 Mar The first Continental Youth Conference of Western Asia took place in Karachi, Pakistan. [BW16:265] Conferences, Bahá'í; Conferences, Youth; Youth; - First conferences; Karachi, Pakistan; Pakistan; - Asia first Continental Youth Conference of Western Asia
    1976 8 Mar The Bahá'í International Community was granted consultative status with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). [BIC History Consultative Status; BW16:337–8; VV54] United Nations; UNICEF; Bahá'í International Community; New York, USA; USA
    1976 Feb The Bahá'í Publishing Trust of Korea was established. [BW16:237] Publishing Trusts; Korea
    1976 10 – 15 Jan The first National Bahá'í Children's School to he held in Rhodesia took place in Salisbury. [BW16:155] Bahá'í Childrens school; Salisbury (Harare), Zimbabwe; Rhodesia first National Bahá’í Children’s School in Rhodesia
    1976 10 Jan The most northerly-located local spiritual assembly in the world was formed in the Iñupiat community of Barrow, Alaska. Local Spiritual Assembly; Superlatives; Barrow, AK; Alaska, USA; USA
    1976 Jan Bahá'ís in Jamaica initiated a weekly 15-minute radio programme. [BW16:186] Radio; Jamaica
    1976 (In the year) Elizabeth Martin with Chris Lyons made a film called Retrospective, a memoir of Hand of the Cause John Robarts. It included his reminiscences of the Guardian and of the early days of the Faith in Canada. [HNWE36] - Film; Elizabeth Martin; Chris Lyons; John Robarts; - Hands of the Cause; Toronto, ON; Canada
    1976 (In the year) The publication of Selections from the Writings of the Báb compiled by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice and translated by Habib Taherzadeh with the assistance of a Committee at the Bahá'í World Centre. [SWB] Selections from the Writings of the Báb (book); Habib Taherzadeh; * Publications; * Báb, Writings of; - Bahá'í World Centre first authorized source of the Bab’s Writings in English.
    1976 (In the year) The government of Equatorial Guinea outlawed all religions and the national spiritual assembly was dissolved.
  • It was re-formed in 1984.
    		•  Persecution, Equatorial Guinea; - Persecution, Bans; - Persecution; National Spiritual Assembly, formation; Equatorial Guinea
    1976 (In the year) The Bahá'í Publishing Trust of Norway was established. Publishing Trusts; Norway
    1976 (In the year) Following the conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam, an anti-religion policy was implemented and the Bahá'í Faith, along with all other religions, were banned. Persecution, Vietnam; - Persecution, Bans; - Persecution; Vietnam
    1976 (In the year) The buildings for two new permanent Bahá'í institutes, at Kilifi and Mugweko, were completed, and the institutes began functioning. A large Bahá'í Centre was built in Nakuru and steps were taken towards completion of another at Tongeren. [BW16p145] Bahá'í Institutes; Kilifi; Mugweko; Nakuru; Tongeren; Kenya
    1976 to 1985 British pioneers Ron, Thelma, Simon and Suzanne Batchelor lived in Kathmandu, Nepal. [Thelma Batchelor on Bahá'í History UK] Pioneers; Kathmandu; Nepal

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