A Bahá'í Glossary - Bahá'í Chronology - 102 B.E. (A.D. 1945-1946)

Bahá'í Chronology - The Guradianship - 102 B.E. (A.D. 1945-1946)

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• 102 B.E. • A.H. • April A.D. 1945 • A.M.	Shoghi Effendi sent the following cable to the Bahá'í world: "My faithless brother Ḥusayn, after long period of dishonourable conduct, has abandoned the Master's home to consort with his sister and other Covenant-breakers". [Bahá'í News, No. 174, p.2]
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• 102 B.E. • A.H. • April A.D. 1945 • A.M.	The first local spiritual assembly in Ecuador is established in Guayaquil.
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• 102 B.E. • A.H. • April A.D. 1945 • A.M.	The first local spiritual assembly in the Dominican Republic is established in Santo Domingo. There are nine indigenous believers in the city.
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• 102 B.E. • A.H. • April A.D. 1945 • A.M.	The first local spiritual assembly of Bolivia is established in La Paz.
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• 102 B.E. • A.H. • April A.D. 1945 • A.M.	The first local spiritual assembly of Venezuela is established in Caracas.
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• 102 B.E. • A.H. • 25 April A.D. 1945 • A.M.	The United Nations convenes in San Francisco. For the Bahá'í response see BW17:81.
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• 102 B.E. • A.H. • 8 May A.D. 1945 • A.M.	The war in Europe ends. For Shoghi Effendi's response see MA80–1, PP185 and UD175. For the war's effect on the Bahá'í community worldwide see BW17:80. See CF36 for Shoghi Effendi's opinion of the significance of the role of the United States in the war.
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• 102 B.E. • A.H. • June A.D. 1945 • A.M.	The 20 Bahá'ís in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, are a sufficient number for the local spiritual assembly to gain legal recognition for the Bahá'í Faith as a religion. It is registered as a cultural, religious and social organization on 5 August 1946.
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• 102 B.E. • A.H. • 1 August A.D. 1945 • A.M.	A children's hostel is founded in Panchgani, Maharashtra state, India. [BBD171; BBRSM153; BW16:320] It expands into the New Era High School. For the history of the school see BW16:320–6.
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• 102 B.E. • A.H. • 14 August A.D. 1945 • A.M.	The German Bahá'ís, 80 per cent of whom live in the American sector of occupied Germany, obtain permission to re-organize. [BBRSM185]
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• 102 B.E. • A.H. • August A.D. 1945 • A.M.	Marguerite Wellby Preston, an English Bahá'í married to a Kenyan tea grower, settles in Sotik, Kenya, becoming the first Bahá'í in the country. [UD484] Until the 1950s she is the only Bahá'í in East Africa. [UD484]
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• 102 B.E. • A.H. • 2 September A.D. 1945 • A.M.	The war in Japan ends.
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• 102 B.E. • A.H. • 20 October A.D. 1945 • A.M.	Emeric and Rosemary Sala of St. Lambert, Quebec depart on a four month tour of Central and South America. They will visit 19 republics and Mr Sala will give seventy-nine talks. They will visit many pioneers and will pay homage at the grave of May Maxwell at Quilmes, about one hour from Buenos Aires. [TG93-101]
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• 102 B.E. • A.H. • 24 October A.D. 1945 • A.M.	The United Nations is formally established. For the relationship of the Bahá'í Faith to the United Nations see BW16:327–52.
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• 102 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1946 • A.M.	Between 1946 and 1951, Johanne Sorensen (later Hoeg), the first Danish Bahá'í, sends letters and Bahá'í literature to 93 towns, villages, settlements, and radio stations throughout Greenland. Hendrik Olsen, the first Bahá'í indigenous to Greenland, enrols in 1965 after receiving a Bahá'í book from Miss Sorensen in 1946 and maintaining a 17-year correspondence with her.
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• 102 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1946 • A.M.	The first Bahá'í summer school in Argentina is held in Ezeiza. [BW11:45]
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• 102 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1946 • A.M.	The restoration of the House of Bahá'u'lláh in Ṭihrán is completed.
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• 102 B.E. • A.H. • Jaunary / February A.D. 1946 • A.M.	Canadian Elizabeth Greenleaf is on pilgrimage in Haifa. SETPE1p114
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• 102 B.E. • A.H. • 20 / 25 January A.D. 1946 • A.M.	The first teaching conference in Latin America is held in Panama City on the instructions of Shoghi Effendi. Twenty–five delegates from ten South American countries attend. [BW10p707, Historical Background of the Panama Temple by Ruth Pringle]
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