Chronology of the Bahá'í Faith

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1977 27 – 30 Dec The first Bahá'í summer school of Sierra Leone was held in Magburaka. [BW17:151] First summer and winter schools; Magburaka, Sierra Leone; Sierra Leone first Bahá’í summer school of Sierra Leone
1977 15 Dec The Hemispheric Bahá'í Radio and Television Conference was held in Panama, with 125 participants from 24 countries. [BW17:219; Mess63-86] Conferences, Bahá'í; Conferences, Other; Bahá'í Radio; Television; Media; Panama
1977 Dec Properties confiscated by the Iraqi government belonging to individual Bahá'ís were returned; properties and funds belonging to the Faith were turned over to the Ministry of the Interior for disposal. [BW17:80] Persecution, Iraq; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Iraq
1977 Dec The first International Conference of Bahá'í Women in South America was held in Lima, Peru, attended by 200 women from 12 countries. [BW17:172]
  • For picture see BW17:211.
    		• Conferences, Bahá'í; - Conferences, International; Conferences, Women; Women; - First conferences; Lima, Peru; Peru first International Conference of Bahá’í Women in South America
    1977 Dec The restoration of the house of 'Abdu'lláh Páshá began. [BW17:84] House of `Abdu'lláh Páshá; Restoration; Akka, Israel; - Bahá'í World Centre; Haifa, Israel
    1977 17 Oct At the end of the Asian Bahá'í Women's Conference Hand of the Cause Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih Khánum laid the foundation stone of the Mother Temple of the Indian Subcontinent. [BW17:85, 180, 368–70; VV35] * Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (House of Worship); Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Delhi; Lotus temple; Amatul-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum; Foundation stones and groundbreaking; Conferences, Bahá'í; Conferences, Women; New Delhi, India; India; Asia
    1977 13 – 16 Oct The Asian Bahá'í Women's Conference was held in New Delhi, attended by more than a thousand women from across Asia. 1,200 women from 36 countries were in attendance. [BW17:180]
  • For picture see BW17:212.
    		•  Conferences, Bahá'í; Conferences, Women; Women; New Delhi, India; India; Asia
    1977 12 Oct The first Bahá'í educational and cultural radio station, HCRN-1 Radio Bahá'í del Ecuador, made its inaugural broadcast at 1420kHz, 20 watts, in Spanish and Quechua from studios in Otavalo. [BBD193; BW17:169, 215–17; BW19:120; VV77; Mess63-86p373]
  • Radio Bahá'í was first housed in the Amatu'l-Bahá Ruhiyyih Khanum Institute in Otavalo. [BW18p226]
  • For pictures see BW17:216, 218 and VV77.
  • Full time programming (six hours a day) was initiated on the 12th of December, 1977. The 1 kiloWatt transmitter was located at Cahas, 20km south of Otavalo. [Radio Bahá'í Ecuador p23, 52]
  • On December 12th, 1979, programming was initiated in the short wave band on 2340 kHz in the 120-metre band. The 1 kilowatt transmitter was located about 30 km north of Otavalo at an altitude of 10,000 feet. In 1982 the transmission frequency was switched to 4990 kHz on the 60-meter band. [Radio Bahá'Í Ecuador p205 note 23]
  • For further details on this radio station see Radio Bahá'í Ecuador by Kurt Hein.
  • See as well the compilation entitled Use of Radio and Television in Teaching attached to the message from the Universal House of Justice dated 25 May 1975.
  • Pictures
    		• Bahá'í Radio; Bahá'í-owned radio; Firsts, other; Education; Otavalo, Ecuador; Cahas, Ecuador; Ecuador first Bahá’í educational and cultural radio station in Ecuador makes inaugural broadcast

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