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Bahá'í Chronology - The Universal House of Justice - 145 B.E. (A.D. 1988-1989)

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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • April A.D. 1988 • A.M.	The House of Abdu'lláh Pás̲h̲á is open for the Bahá'ís to visit for the first time on the occasion of the Sixth International Convention. [ARG61-62]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1988 • A.M.	The Universal House of Justice is elected for the sixth time at the International Convention held in Haifa. Delegates from 148 National/Regional Assemblies participated. [BINS176; VV97] David Hofman and H. Borrah Kavelin announce their retirement. [VV97] A gift of a large bowl of 120 roses was received from the Bahá'í of Iran.
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • Riḍván A.D. 1988 • A.M.	The National Spiritual Assembly of Guinea is formed with its seat in Conakry. [BINS178:8]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • June A.D. 1988 • A.M.	Over 100,000 people, including large numbers of women, youth and families, become Bahá'ís in Uttar Pradesh, India. [BINS179:4]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • 30 June / 3 July A.D. 1988 • A.M.	The Bahá'í Arts Council, Canada, holds the first arts festival, ‘Invitation 88: A Festival of the Human Spirit' at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario. [BINS179:2]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • July A.D. 1988 • A.M.	Nearly 50 people become Bahá'ís in Saipan, Mariana Islands. [BINS181:5] Later reports indicate 91 people have enrolled by October 1988.
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • July A.D. 1988 • A.M.	Eighty–nine people become Bahá'ís in Belize. [BINS186:2]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • July A.D. 1988 • A.M.	In 18 days of teaching, 876 adults, youth and children become Bahá'ís in Haiti. [BINS181:7] Reports from the National Spiritual Assembly in September indicate that 2,371 people enrolled in the first phase of the teaching campaign.
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • 7 / 10 July A.D. 1988 • A.M.	The first Youth Convention of Spain is held in Madrid. [BINS180:5]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • 14 / 17 July A.D. 1988 • A.M.	The Bahá'í Association for Arts (BAFA) holds its first arts festival at the Bahá'í conference centre De Poort, Netherlands. [BINS180:4]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • 15 July A.D. 1988 • A.M.	The first International Women's Conference of Paraguay opens, attended by 130 women from seven countries. [BINS180:5]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • July / August A.D. 1988 • A.M.	Over 500 people become Bahá'ís in Liberia. [BINS184:8]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • August A.D. 1988 • A.M.	A 20-day teaching project in Coro, Falcon State, Venezuela, enrols 120 people in the first two days. [BINS182:7]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • 3 / 7 August A.D. 1988 • A.M.	The first Iberian Youth Conference is held in Lisbon, attended by 120 Bahá'ís from nine European countries. [BINS181:6]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • September A.D. 1988 • A.M.	An intensive teaching campaign in Kenya enrols 448 new Bahá'ís. [BINS184:8]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • September A.D. 1988 • A.M.	A five-day teaching project in the Lake Titicaca region of Peru enrols 738 youth and 1,026 adults, almost half of whom are women. [BINS184:10] A later report gives the figure as over 2,000. [BINS185:8]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • September A.D. 1988 • A.M.	A teaching project in Maddhya Pradesh, India, enrols 20,000 new Bahá'ís in Morena District. [BINS185:4]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • 10 September A.D. 1988 • A.M.	A three-month teaching project is launched in Colombia, resulting in 1,245 people becoming Bahá'ís. [BINS193:1]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • 24 / 25 September A.D. 1988 • A.M.	The first annual Bahá'í Studies Conference of Spain is held in Barcelona. [BINS192:5]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • 24 September A.D. 1988 • A.M.	The six-week Manicaland Teaching Campaign is launched in Zimbabwe, reporting 166 enrolments in the first three weeks. [BINS188:8]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • October A.D. 1988 • A.M.	In the State of Orissa, India, 2,600 people become Bahá'ís and 16 new local spiritual assemblies are formed in 15 days.
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • October A.D. 1988 • A.M.	One hundred and twenty people in Hong Kong and 280 in Macau become Bahá'ís as a result of teaching institutes. [BINS189:8] A later report states that more than 600 people in Macau have become Bahá'ís. [BINS194:3]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • October A.D. 1988 • A.M.	Thirteen Romanies become Bahá'ís in northern Spain. [BINS186:7]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • c. November A.D. 1988 • A.M.	Pietro Pandolfini, the first from the Albanian minority in Sicily to become a Bahá'í, enrols. [BINS189:5]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • November A.D. 1988 • A.M.	More than 2,500 people enrol in Bangladesh. [BINS190:5] A later report indicates that over 5,000 people have become Bahá'ís and 108 new local spiritual assemblies formed. [BINS192:1]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • November / December A.D. 1988 • A.M.	One thousand one hundred people become Bahá'ís in the State of Gujarat, India. [BINS190:5]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • November / December A.D. 1988 • A.M.	Six hundred people become Bahá'ís in West Bengal and 5,150 in Orissa, India. [BINS189:4–5]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • November / December A.D. 1988 • A.M.	The first members of the Jhana tribe to become Bahá'ís enrol in India. [BINS189:5]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • November A.D. 1988 / February A.D. 1989 • A.M.	Teaching projects are launched in the Philippines, resulting in 3,847 people becoming Bahá'ís. [BINS195:4]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • 26 November / 4 December A.D. 1988 • A.M.	Over a thousand people become Bahá'ís in Bolivia during a teaching project. [BINS189:2] A later report indicates that over 2,000 people have become Bahá'ís. [BINS195:1]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • 30 November A.D. 1988 • A.M.	The Bahá'í International Community is elected Secretary of the Board of the ‘Conference on Non-Governmental Organizations in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations' (CONGO) for the period 1988–91. [BINS189:2]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • c. December A.D. 1988 • A.M.	The Government of Western Samoa publishes a Christmas issue of four stamps of religious buildings, among them the Bahá'í House of Worship in Samoa. [BINS196:8]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • 4 December A.D. 1988 • A.M.	A two-week teaching project is launched, resulting in 414 people becoming Bahá'ís, including ten chiefs. [BINS192:4]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • 8 December A.D. 1988 • A.M.	The plenary session of the General Assembly of the United Nations adopts a resolution concerning human rights in Iran which specifically mentions the suffering of the Bahá'ís. [BINS189:2]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • 18 December A.D. 1988 • A.M.	H. Borrah Kavelin, former member of the first House of Justice, passes away in Albuquerque, New Mexico. [VV97]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • 28 December A.D. 1988 • A.M.	Sean Hinton, a British Bahá'í youth of 22 years, arrives in Ulaan Baator, Mongolia, as an official research scholar in ethnomusicology from the University of Cambridge, the first Bahá'í to reside in Mongolia. [VV101] Seven months later he is named a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh by the Universal House of Justice. See VV101 for a picture.
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • 29 December A.D. 1988 • A.M.	The Universal House of Justice issues a letter to the Bahá'ís in the United States published as Individual Rights and Freedoms in the World Order of Bahá'u'lláh.
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • 30 December A.D. 1988 / 1 January A.D. 1989 • A.M.	Senior officers of the Bahá'í International Community in the Holy Land, Geneva and New York meet with representatives of five national spiritual assemblies to discuss their collaboration with the United Nations, its agencies and their governments.
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • 24 December A.D. 1988 • A.M.	The first National Youth Conference of Côte d'Ivoire takes place. [BINS196:9]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1989 • A.M.	More than 250 people become Bahá'ís in Zambia in the first three months of the year. [BINS201:6]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1989 • A.M.	During a three-week teaching effort on the island of Tobago, 450 people become Bahá'ís. [BINS201:7]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The first travel teachers to visit Albania since World War II arrive from Italy.
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1989 • A.M.	Fourteen-year-old Olga Anatolevna Kirushkin becomes a Bahá'í in Minsk, the first known native person to become a Bahá'í in Belarus.
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The New Era Foundation was formed by the US National Spiritual Assembly to sponsor a wide range of development projects in several continents. [VV81]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1989 • A.M.	A branch of the Bahá'í International Community's Office of Public Information is established in Hong Kong in anticipation of the time when the Bahá'í Faith can be proclaimed on the mainland of China. [AWH61; VV54]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1989 • A.M.	Three International Music Festivals are held in Africa. [BINS215]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The establishment of the Bahá'í International Community's Office of the Environment in New York. Ridván Message 1992 [AWH75; VV54 106]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • January A.D. 1989 • A.M.	Three per cent of the population of North Tarawa, Kiribati, 70 people, become Bahá'ís. [BINS193:3]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • 7 January A.D. 1989 • A.M.	A week-long teaching project is launched in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands resulting in 43 enrolments and the re-formation of two local spiritual assemblies. [BINS191:7]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • February A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The inaugural publication of One Country, the newsletter of the Bahá'í International Community. It is a publication of the Office of Public Information of the Bahá'í International Community in New York. The periodical reports mainly on activities of the worldwide Bahá'í community in relation to issues of sustainable development, peace and world order, human rights, and the advancement of women. [BW'86-‘92 p.539]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • 8 February A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The publication of the statement by the Bahá'í International Community, "Eliminating Racism", to the forty-fifth session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • 9 February A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The publication of the statement by the Bahá'í International Community, "Right to Development", to the forty-fifth session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • 15 February A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The publication of the statement by the Bahá'í International Community, "Creating a Universal Culture of Human Rights", to the fourty-fifth session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • 9 March A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The Commission on Human Rights adopts a resolution expressing grave concern at human rights violations in Iran, mentioning the Bahá'ís three times. [BINS195:1]
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• 145 B.E. • A.H. • 17 March A.D. 1989 • A.M.	The Bahá'í International Community enters into a ‘working relationship' with the World Health Organization (WHO) for the period 1989–91. [AWH61; BINS201:1]
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