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Date 1989-12, descending — sort earliest first

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1989 25 – 29 Dec
198-		 The first International Bahá'í Summer School of Bophuthatswana was held at the Pilanesberg National Game Reserve, attended by 263 people from 12 countries. [BINS215:1–2] Summer schools; First summer and winter schools; Bophuthatswana, South Africa; South Africa first International Bahá’í Summer School of Bophuthatswana
1989 18 Dec - 1990 2 Jan
198-		 West Berlin Bahá'í communities were joined by 26 Bahá'ís from six European countries and the United States in proclamation and teaching activities among East Germans. [BINS215:2]
  • More than 50,000 copies of a shortened version of the Peace Statement and other Bahá'í materials were distributed at four major border checkpoints in West Berlin and at the Brandenburg Gate. [BINS215:2]
    		•  Promise of World Peace (statement); Teaching; Berlin, Germany; Germany
    1989 18 Dec - 1990 2 Jan
    198-    		 During the Youth Winter School in Traben-Trarback participants from 12 countries including East Germany, Romania, Hungary and the Soviet Union gathered for the first time since the Second World War. [BINS215:2] Conferences, Bahá'í; Conferences, Youth; Youth; - Conferences, International; Winter schools; - First conferences; Traben-Trarbach, Germany; Germany; Eastern Europe; Soviet Union; Russia first gathering soviet-bloc countries since WW II
    1989 15 Dec
    198-    		 A World Forestry Charter Gathering organized by the Offices of Public Information in London and New York took place in London. [AWH75; BINS214:1–2]
  • It commemorated the centenary of the birth of Richard St Barbe Baker, the Bahá'í environmentalist who founded the Gatherings in 1945.
    		• Richard St. Barbe Baker; Environment; London, England; United Kingdom
    1989 (Late in the year)
    198-    		 The Local Spiritual Assembly of Budapest was re-elected for the first time since the proscription of 1950. [BINS223:4; Letter of the Universal House of Justice to the National Spiritual Assembly of Austria, 6 December 1989 www.bahai.hu Note 68]
  • The assembly was first elected in 1939 but lapsed during the war. It was re-formed in 1948 only to be dissolved two years later. [BINS223:4]
    		•  Local Spiritual Assembly, re-formed; Budapest, Hungary; Hungary
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