A Bahá'í Glossary - Bahá'í Chronology - 119 B.E. (A.D. 1962-1963)

Bahá'í Chronology - The Guradianship - 119 B.E. (A.D. 1962-1963)

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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • April A.D. 1962 • A.M.	Virginia Breaks, Knight of Bahá'u'lláh for the Caroline Islands, moves to Saipan, the first pioneer to the area.
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • 12 April A.D. 1962 • A.M.	Four Bahá'ís are arrested in Nador, Morocco. [BW13:289; BW14:97] Eventually 14 Bahá'ís in total are arrested: 7 in Nador, 2 in Fez and 5 in Tetuan. [MC17] For an outline of the situation as it developed over 20 months see MC16–19.
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1962 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Denmark is formed. [BW13:283] For picture see BW13:276.
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1962 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Finland is formed. [BW13:283] For picture see BW13:277.
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1962 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Italy is formed. [BW13:283] For picture see BW13:278.
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1962 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Luxembourg is formed. [BW13:283] For picture see BW13:279.
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1962 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of the Netherlands is formed. [BW13:283] For picture see BW13:279.
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1962 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Norway is formed. [BW13:283] For picture see BW13:280.
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1962 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Portugal is formed. [BW13:283] For picture see BW13:280.
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1962 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Spain is formed. [BW13:283] For picture see BW13:281.
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1962 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Sweden is formed. [BW13:283] For picture see BW13:281.
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1962 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Switzerland is formed. [BW13:283] For picture see BW13:282.
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1962 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Ceylon is formed in Colombo. [BW13:301]
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1962 • A.M.	The first local spiritual assembly of the Loyalty Islands is formed in Nouméa.
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1962 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Belgium is formed. [BW13:283] For picture see BW13:275.
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • 22 May A.D. 1962 • A.M.	The first Athabascan Indian north of the Arctic Circle to become a Bahá'í, Charley Roberts, enrols. [BW15:455]
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • 28 June A.D. 1962 • A.M.	President Tubman of Liberia visits the Shrine of the Báb. This is the second official visit of a head of state and is notable in that Liberia is the first black republic on the continent of Africa. [BW13:400] See BW13:400 for picture.
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • 22 August A.D. 1962 • A.M.	The Custodians ask the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States to make representations to the diplomatic missions of Morocco in Washington and at the United Nations concerning the 14 Bahá'ís imprisoned in Morocco. [MC368–9]
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • 23 September A.D. 1962 • A.M.	The Custodians ask the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States to obtain an interview with the personal representative of the King of Morocco who heads that country's delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in New York in connection with the Bahá'ís imprisoned in Morocco. [MC373–4]
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • Autumn A.D. 1962 • A.M.	A property is acquired outside of Gwalior, India, for a teaching institute. [DM192] The institute is later converted into a boarding hostel solely for Indian children and still later into the ‘Rabbani School', now an accredited agricultural school. [DM192–3; VV82]
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • 31 October A.D. 1962 • A.M.	The 14 Bahá'ís imprisoned in Morocco are arraigned before the Regional Court of Nador. [BW13:289; MC18] They are charged with rebellion and disorder, attacks on public security, constituting an association of criminals and attacks on religious faith. [BW13:289; BW14:97; MC18]
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • 16 November A.D. 1962 • A.M.	The superstructure of the European House of Worship near Frankfurt is completed and the Temple is turned over to the Bahá'ís by the contractor. [BW13:737; MC15]
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • 10 December A.D. 1962 • A.M.	The trial of the 14 Bahá'ís imprisoned in Morocco on charges of sedition opens. [BW13:289; BW14:97] The prosecution makes no attempt to prove the charges against the accused. [BW13:289; BW14:97]
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • 14 December A.D. 1962 • A.M.	The Regional Court of Nador gives its verdict in the case of the 14 Bahá'ís imprisoned in Morocco on charges of sedition: four are acquitted on the grounds that they claim to be Muslims; one is acquitted apparently through family connections; one is released on 15 years' probation owing to his diabetes; five are committed to life imprisonment; and three are condemned to death. [BBRSM174; MC18–19] The sentences are appealed to the Supreme Court. [BW13:289; BW14:97; MC19]
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • 17 December A.D. 1962 • A.M.	The Custodians ask the Bahá'í International Community to issue press releases deploring Morocco's persecution of religious minorities and pointing out its failure to adhere to the UN charter condemning religious intolerance. [MC397]
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • 21 December A.D. 1962 • A.M.	Telegrams are sent to 35 United Nations delegations appealing for help under the Genocide Convention for the Bahá'ís sentenced to death and imprisoned for life in Morocco. [BW13:794]
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • 23 December A.D. 1962 • A.M.	The Custodians ask national spiritual assemblies to cable Secretary General of the United Nations U Thant requesting his intervention on behalf of the Bahá'ís under sentence of death and imprisoned for life in Morocco. [BW13:794; MC397–8]
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • 27 December A.D. 1962 • A.M.	The Custodians ask national and local spiritual assemblies to write to the Moroccan ambassador in their respective countries pleading for justice and religious freedom. [MC398–9]
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • 31 December A.D. 1962 • A.M.	The first indigenous local spiritual assembly in Venezuela is formed among the Yaruro Indians of Apure state in the village of Agua Linda.
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1963 • A.M.	In Angola, Antonio Francesco Ebo and seven other Bahá'ís are arrested and imprisoned in a penal colony off the coast of southern Angola. They remain in confinement for eight years.
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • 1 January A.D. 1963 • A.M.	The Custodians ask all national and local spiritual assemblies to cable the King of Morocco appealing for justice for the Bahá'ís under sentence of death and imprisoned for life in his country. [BW14:97; MC19]
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• 119 B.E. • A.H. • 31 January A.D. 1963 • A.M.	Roger Baldwin, Chairman of the International League for the Rights of Man, appears before the UN sub-commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities and states that, as far they know; the Bahá'í prisoners in Morocco are the only example in recent history where members of a religion have been condemned to death solely for holding and expressing religious views regarded as heretical. [MC415–16]
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