A Bahá'í Glossary - Bahá'í Chronology - 129 B.E. (A.D. 1972-1973)

Bahá'í Chronology - The Universal House of Justice - 129 B.E. (A.D. 1972-1973)

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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Afghanistan is formed with its seat in Kabul. [BW15:243] For picture see BW15:151.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of the Arabian Peninsula is formed. For picture see BW15:151.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Bangladesh is formed with its seat in Dacca. [BW15:243] For picture see BW15:153.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Iceland is formed with its seat in Reykjavik. [BW15:225, 281] For picture see BW15:153.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of the Republic of Ireland is formed with its seat in Dublin. [BW15:283] For picture see BW15:153. The National Spiritual Assembly of the British Isles is renamed the National Spiritual Assembly of the United Kingdom. [BW15:290]
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of the Malagasy Republic formed with its seat in Tananarive. [BW15:199, BWNS288] For pictures see BW15:153, 198.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Puerto Rico is formed with its seat in San Juan. [BW15:218] For picture see BW15:155.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Burundi is formed with its seat in Bujumbura. [BW15:205] Because of disturbances in the country; the assembly is dissolved in the same year and the affairs of the Faith placed under an administrative committee. [BW15:205]
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Nepal is formed with its seat in Kathmandu. [BW15:249] For pictures see BW15:155, 248. With Hand of the Cause Ali-Akbar Furutan representing the Universal House of Justice, the Bahá'ís of Nepal held their first national convention to elect their National Spiritual Assembly in 1972 during the reign of King Mahendra. The convention had forty delegates. The members of the first national assembly were: Amar Pradhan, Shyam Maherjan, Jujubhai Sakya, Aranda Lal Shrestha, Dinesh Verma, Keith de Folo, W. F. Chaittonalla, P. N. Rai, D. K. Malla - from Buddhist, Hindu, Christian backgrounds. [Religion in Nepal website]
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The first national spiritual assembly in Micronesia, the National Spiritual Assembly of the North West Pacific Ocean, is formed with its seat in Ponape. [BW15:268] For picture see BW15:155.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Réunion is formed with its seat in St Pierre. [BW15:199] For picture see BW15:155.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Seychelles is formed with its seat in Victoria. [BW16:156] For picture see BW15:157.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Rwanda is formed. [BW15:205] For picture see BW15:157.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Gabon is formed. [BW15:206]
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Singapore is formed with its seat in Singapore. [BW15:257] For picture see BW15:157.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Eastern Malaysia and Brunei is formed with its seat in Kuching, Sarawak. [BW15:253] For picture see BW15:254.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of the Windward Islands is formed with its seat in St Lawrence, Barbados. [BW15:220] For picture see BW15:157.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Tunisia is formed.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The first local spiritual assembly in the Republic of San Marino is formed.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The Spiritual Assembly of Phuntsholing town is formed. It is the first assembly of Bhutan. [Bahá'í Collections]
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • 28 April / 2 May A.D. 1972 • A.M.	An international teaching conference is held in conjunction with the dedication of the Mother Temple of Latin America in Panama. [BW15:633–42] For pictures see BW15:632–49. Some 3,000 Bahá'ís attend. [TG191]
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • 29 April A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The House of Worship in Panama is dedicated in a series of ceremonies held throughout the day attended by Hands of the Cause Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih K̲h̲ánum, Ugo Giachery and Dhikru'lláh Khádem and four thousand Bahá'ís. [BW15:634; Vv14] For the history of the House of Worship see BW15:643–6. For statistics on the House of Worship see BW15:647–9.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • 30 April A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The House of Worship in Panama is publicly dedicated by Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih K̲h̲ánum in two sessions. [BW15:634]
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • May A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The northeast and southeast quadrants of the gardens at Bahjí are completed and the southern gardens are extended to ‘Abdu'l-Bahá's Tea House.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • 1 May A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The international teaching conference in Panama held in conjunction with the dedication of the House of Worship opens. [BW15:635] For the message of the Universal House of Justice see BW15:635–7.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The first Summer School of Jamaica is held. [BW15:218]
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • 7 June A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The Universal House of Justice announces the decision to construct its Seat. [DH172; MUHJ98–9; VV37]
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • 19 June A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The government of Indonesia re-affirms the ban on the Bahá'í Faith. Following this a number of Bahá'ís lose their jobs.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • Summer A.D. 1972 • A.M.	Over 150 American youth join European youth in Operation Hand-in-Hand, a joint teaching project. [BW15:338] For picture see BW15:347.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • 3 July A.D. 1972 • A.M.	Parvíz Sádiqí, Farámarz Vujdání and Parvíz Furúghí, Iranian youth pioneers, are murdered near Mindanao, Philippines, by Muslims. [BW15:257; DM316–17] The three are found in a shallow grave. All had been shot, grievously mutilated and two had been decapitated. The bodies are removed and given a Bahá'í burial in a beautiful plot donated for the purpose. [CBN261September1972p1] For their obituaries see BW15:514–16.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • 6 August A.D. 1972 • A.M.	‘Abdu'l-Ḥamíd Ishráq-Khávarí, Iranian scholar, author, translator and promoter of the Bahá'í Faith, dies. [BW15:520] For his obituary see BW15:518–20.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • September A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The Bahá'í Publishing Trust of Taiwan is established and registered. [BW15:262]
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • 7 September A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The first local spiritual assembly in Malta is formed.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • October A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The first local spiritual assembly in the Falkland Islands is formed. [BW15:650]
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The first Winter School of Luxembourg is held in Pétange. [BW15:284]
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • November A.D. 1972 • A.M.	Thirty–two people enrol in Corsica.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • 26 November A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The constitution of the Universal House of Justice is adopted. [BW15:169; BBRSM132, 138; VV14] For full text of the constitution see BW15:555–64.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • December A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The first International Youth Conference of Surinam takes places in Paramaribo. [BW15:341]
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • December A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The first winter school in Bangladesh takes place. [BW15:245]
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • 17 December A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The passing of Matthew Bullock (b. 11 September, 1881 in Dabney, North Carolina) in Detroit, Michigan. He was a singer, a talented athlete, a football coach, a teacher, a soldier, a war hero, a civic leader, a church leader. Lawyer-graduated from Harvard Law School in 1907. Found the Faith in 1940 after many years of careful investigation. Husband to Katherine Wright, (d. 1945), father to Matthew W. Bullock Jr (a judge) and Julia Gaddy (librarian). Chairman of the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Boston. Travel teacher to Haiti, Costa Rica, Mexico, Belgian Congo, Liberia. Elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of the the United States in 1952. Represented the NSA at the first Intercontinental Bahá'í Conference in Uganda, East and received permission to visit the Holy Land on pilgrimage prior to attending the Conference. Became a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh in 1953 for Dutch West Indies when he and four other members of the NSA resigned to take up pioneer posts. He received an honorary degree from Harvard in recognition of the lifetime of achievements. He spent his last years in Detroit in the care of his daughter. [BW15p535-539]
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • 29 / 31 December A.D. 1972 • A.M.	The passing of Matthew Bullock (b. 11 September, 1881 in Dabney, North Carolina) in Detroit, Michigan. He was a singer, a talented athlete, a football coach, a teacher, a soldier, a war hero, a civic leader, a church leader. Lawyer-graduated from Harvard Law School in 1907. Found the Faith in 1940 after many years of careful investigation. Husband to Katherine Wright, (d. 1945), father to Matthew W. Bullock Jr (a judge) and Julia Gaddy (librarian). Chairman of the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Boston. Travel teacher to Haiti, Costa Rica, Mexico, Belgian Congo, Liberia. Elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of the the United States in 1952. Represented the NSA at the first Intercontinental Bahá'í Conference in Uganda, East and received permission to visit the Holy Land on pilgrimage prior to attending the Conference. Became a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh in 1953 for Dutch West Indies when he and four other members of the NSA resigned to take up pioneer posts. He received an honorary degree from Harvard in recognition of the lifetime of achievements. He spent his last years in Detroit in the care of his daughter. [BW15p535-539]
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1973 • A.M.	The House of Bahá'u'lláh in Ṭihrán and its adjacent bírúní (reception area) are completely restored to their original structure, design and elegance.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1973 • A.M.	The first local spiritual assembly in St Helena is formed.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1973 • A.M.	The first local spiritual assembly in the Faroes is formed in Tórshavn.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1973 • A.M.	The first International Youth Conference of Mexico takes place in Puebla City, attended by 200 youth from five countries. [BW15:343]
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • jaunuary A.D. 1973 • A.M.	The Bahá'ís of The Gambia are granted freedom of worship by the Secretary-General of the Gambian government. [BW15:193]
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • 19 January A.D. 1973 • A.M.	The Synopsis and Codification of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas is completed. [BW15:169]
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • February A.D. 1973 • A.M.	Hand of the Cause Amatu'l-Bahá Rúhíyyih K̲h̲ánum and her companion Violette Nakhjavání complete their tour of Africa. [BW15:605] They have driven some 36,000 miles to visit more than 30 countries. [BW15:596; VV12] For details of the safari see BW15:593–607. See BW15:606–7 for the countries, islands and territories visited and the heads of state and other dignitaries who received them.
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• 129 B.E. • A.H. • 15 March A.D. 1973 • A.M.	The mansion at Mazra‘ih is purchased. [BW15:169; BW16:136; DH94; VV14] From the Ridván message of the Universal House of Justice ... "The Mansion of Mazra`ih, often referred to by the beloved Guardian as one of the "twin mansions" in which the Blessed Beauty resided after nine years within the walled prison-city of `Akká, and dear to the hearts of the believers by reason of its associations with their Lord, has at last been purchased together with 24,000 square metres of land extending into the plain on its eastward side." [MUHJ68-73]
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