Chronology: Date 1995-1

date	event	tags	firsts
1995 Oct	The publication of Turning Point For All Nations by the Bahá'í International Community, United Nations Office, in New York in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the United Nations. It was a call for world leaders to define a role for the UN. [Turning Point for all Nations, en français]	Turning Point For All Nations (statement); Bahá'í International Community; - BIC statements; - Statements; * Publications; United Nations; New York, USA; USA
1995 20 Oct	The first local spiritual assembly in the Komi Republic was formed at Syktyvkar. [BINS357:8]	Local Spiritual Assembly; Syktyvkar; Komi	First local assembly formed in the Komi Republic.
1995 Oct – Dec	More than a million people visited the Bahá'í House of Worship in India in this period. [BINS357:5]	Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Delhi; Lotus temple; Statistics; New Delhi, India; India
1995 1 Dec	The 51st Session of the UN Human Rights Commission was held. In January the Bahá'í International Community submitted Promoting Religious Tolerance addressed an individual's basic human right to follow his/her conscience in matters of religion and belief.	United Nations; Bahá'í International Community; - BIC statements; Geneva, Switzerland; Switzerland
1995 26 Dec	Start of the Institute Process In its message of 26 December 1995 to the Conference of the Continental Boards of Counsellors the Universal House of Justice announced that a Four Year Plan would be rolled out at Ridván. See as well the Ridván Message 153 As the term "institute" has assumed various uses in the Bahá'í community, a word of clarification is needed. The next four years will represent an extraordinary period in the history of our Faith, a turning point of epochal magnitude. What the friends throughout the world are now being asked to do is to commit themselves, their material resources, their abilities and their time to the development of a network of training institutes on a scale never before attempted. These centres of Bahá'í learning will have as their goal one very practical outcome, namely, the raising up of large numbers of believers who are trained to foster and facilitate the process of entry by troops with efficiency and love.	Training Institutes; - Teaching Plans; Four Year Plan (1995-1999); Counsellors; Counsellors conferences; * Institute process; - Basic timeline, Expanded; - Bahá'í World Centre; Haifa, Israel
1995 26 Dec	The Universal House of Justice clarified the functioning of the Continental Boards: "Fundamental to the work of the Counsellors is the understanding that all members of the Continental Board are responsible for the entire continent, and should, to the degree possible, endeavor to familiarize themselves with the conditions of the Cause in the countries therein. Through periodic reports from individual Counsellors, the Board is kept abreast of developments in all areas of the continent and is able to offer guidance to assist its members in the execution of their duties. Whereas no Counsellor should be regarded as having exclusive responsibility for any one territory, the detailed familiarity acquired by each through close interaction with the National Spiritual Assembly and Auxiliary Board members in a particular area is in fact a valuable asset to all the Counsellors on the Board." [26 December 1995]	Counsellors
1995 Dec 28 – 30	The first teaching conference of Lithuania was held in Vilnius, attended by Bahá'ís from five countries. [BINS355:1]	Conferences, Bahá'í; Conferences, Teaching; - First conferences; Vilnius; Lithuania	first teaching conference of Lithuania
1995 31 Dec	In a message from the Universal House of Justice addressed – To the Bahá'ís of the World dated 31 December, 1995 the Four Year Plan was announced.	- Teaching Plans; Four Year Plan (1995-1999); * Institute process; - Bahá'í World Centre
Try also a shorter date like or 1995 or 199 try also the Chronology Canada — 1995-1 or 1995 or 199

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