Category Archive: Baha’i Events
The Dec. 28, 2011 Message from the Universal House of Justice has been a catalyst for holding Institutional Conferences in the regional level. Recently, the Southern Luzon, Mindanao, and Palawan had their regional conferences.
Regional conferences to be held yet will be:
Visayas on April 8-10 at Cebu Baha’i Center (just completed… exciting news will be shared soon!!!)
Northern Luzon on April 8-10 at Santiago City, Isabela (just completed …exciting news will be shared soon!!!)
Central Luzon on April 15-17 at San Jose City, [...]
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April 1, 1844
Mulla Husayn goes to Bushihr, stops in Shiraz on way to Kerman
After 40 days in Masjid al-Wali mosque, Mulla Husayn with Muhammad Hasan (brother) and Muhammad-Baqir (nephew) returned to Najaf and passed from Karbala and finally arrived to Bushihr at 1th of April 1844
April 1, 1847
Bab received letter and gifts from Baha’u’llah in Kulayn
Mulla Muhammad Khoei and Mulla Muhammad Kandi arrived from Tihran to Kulayn and met Bab to present a letter and [...]
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Last Mar. 13-15, 2011 in Bataraza, Palawan, approximately 30 volunteers involved with community-building thru spiritual and social transformation gathered to study the Dec. 28, 2010 Message from the Universal House of Justice. Far-flung, this island province might be, however, they have initiated sustained programmes for Children’s Classes, Junior Youth Spiritual Empowerment Programmes, Study Circles, Devotional Gatherings in their own villages.
During the 3-day conference, the study material guided participants to review the path of development [...]
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Last Mar. 25-27, 2011, more than a hundred friends, community-building volunteers representing different provinces and clusters in Southern Luzon, attended a conference in Manila to study the Dec. 28, 2010 Message from the Universal House of Justice. In those three days, their involvement on Children’s Classes, Junior Youth Spiritual Empowerment Programmes, Study Circles, Devotional Gatherings in their own villages and neighborhoods were reviewed and analyzed from the context of how to sustain, [...]
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March 1
Fourth Day of Ayyam-i-Ha
The Baha’i calendar is made up of 19 months of 19 days each. The period of Ayyam-i-Ha adjusts the Baha’i year to the solar cycle. These days are set aside for hospitality, gift giving, special acts of charity, and preparing for the Baha’i Fast
March 1, 1897
Shoghi Effendi Rabbani was born in the House of Abdu’llah Pasha
Shoghi Effendi, was the Guardian and eldest grandson of Abdu’l-Baha, is born of Abdu’l-Baha’s eldest daughter [...]
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February 1, 1953
Completion of the Baha’i Home for the Aged in Wilmette, Illinois
The National Spiritual Assembly of the United States opened the first dependency of the Baha’i House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois: the Baha’i Home for the Aged.
February 2, 1849
Martyrdom of Mulla Hussein-i-Boshrui in the tomb of Shaikh Tabarsi
Bab’s “First Believer”, The Bab bestowed upon him the title of Bab-ul-Bab (“Gate of the Gate”), He was 18 yeas old when joined “Seyyid Kazim Reshti” and [...]
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January 2, 1844
Death Siyyid Kazim-i Rashti in Karbila
January 3, 1922
Will and Testament of Abdu’l-Baha formally read
Will and Testament of Abdu’l-Baha formally read. The Guardianship is inaugurated and Shoghi Effendi is appointed the first Guardian of the Baha’i Faith: the sole authoritative interpreter of the Baha’i Writings
January 9, 1951
Estanblishment of the first International Baha’i Council by Shoghi Effendi
Cablegram from Shoghi Effendi, 9 January 1951, The First Guardian of Baha’i Faith Shoghi Effendi establishes the first International [...]
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December 3, 1982
Death of Paul Haney, Hand of the Cause of God in Haifa, Israel
Paul Edmond Haney (August 20, 1909 – December 3, 1982) was a Custodian and Hand of the Cause of God in the Baha’i Faith. He was appointed by Shoghi Effendi as a Hand of the Cause of God on March 19, 1954 while serving as chairman of the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States.
December 5, 1913
Abdu’l-Bahas return to the Holy Land [...]
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November 1, 1845
The Times of London published the first known reference in print to the religion of the Bab
The first published account was that of proclamation by the Bab of his mission in Mecca and the arrest and punishment of four of the Bab’s disciples in Shiraz, and the arrest of the Bab. This account appeared in The Times of London on 1 November 1845.
November 4, 1870
Release from prison barracks to house within Akka
Release from prison [...]
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