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• Jalál 13 Jalál 169 B.E.
• Yawm as-Sabt 29 Jumādá al-ūlá
A.H. 1433
• Saturday 21 April A.D. 2012
• Yom Shabbat 29 Nissan A.M. 5772 |
Plans are announced for the
building of the first two national Mashriqu'l-Adhkárs that are to be
raised up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Papua New Guinea. [Riḍván 2012 To the Bahá'ís of the World] |
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• Jalál 13 Jalál 169 B.E.
• Yawm as-Sabt 29 Jumādá al-ūlá
A.H. 1433
• Saturday 21 April A.D. 2012
• Yom Shabbat 29 Nissan A.M. 5772 |
Plans are announced that the
Universal House of Justice is entering into consultations with
respective National Spiritual Assemblies regarding the erection of the
first local Houses of Worship in each of the following clusters:
Battambang, Cambodia; Bihar Sharif, India; Matunda Soy, Kenya; Norte del
Cauca, Colombia; and Tanna, Vanuatu.
[Riḍván 2012 To the Bahá'ís of the World] |
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• Istiqlál 14 Jamál 169 B.E.
• Yawm al-Jum'ah 19
Jumādá al-ākhirah A.H. 1433
• Friday 11 May A.D. 2012
• Yom Shishi 19 Iyar A.M. 5772 |
The Universal House of Justice sends a message to the Bahá'ís of Iran near the four-year
anniversary of the illegal arrest and imprisonment of the former members
of the Yárán and the more recent injustice meted out against the
co-workers of the Bahá'í Institute for Higher Education (BIHE). [BWNS823, Message from the Universal House of Justice dated 11 May, 2012, In Farsi] |
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• `Aẓamat / Ráḥmat 169 B.E.
• Rajab / Sha'bān A.H. 1433
• June A.D. 2012
• Sivan / Tammuz A.M. 5772 |
After the January 25th revolution
against Mubarak and a period of rule by the Supreme Council of the Armed
Forces, the Muslim Brotherhood took power in Egypt through a series of
popular elections with Egyptians electing Islamist Mohamed Morsi to the
presidency in June 2012.
On 3 July 2013, Morsi was deposed by a coup d'état led by the
minister of defense General Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. The situation of
Egypt's Bahá'í community remained uncertain. The prescriptions of the
1960 Presidential Decree, despite the revolution, had yet to be
annulled. This meant that despite the 2009 lifting of the restrictions
on identification documents, the Bahá'í Faith still had not received
actual recognition as a religion and Bahá'í were frequently subjected to
public vilification. It was a period of extreme unrest. It is estimated
that between Sisi's overthrow of Morsi and the 2014 presidential
elections, an estimated 20,000 activists and dissidents were arrested by
the police under the interim government. El-Sisi went on to become
Egypt's president by popular election in 2014. |
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• Ráḥmat / Kalimát 169 B.E.
• Sha'bān / Ramaḍān A.H. 1433
• July A.D. 2012
• Tammuz / Av A.M. 5772 |
The Bahá'í Chair for World Peace
was assumed by Professor Hoda Mahmoudi who previously headed a research
department at the Bahá'í World Center in Israel. [Bio Professor Hoda Mahmoudi] |
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• Kamál 14 `Ilm 169 B.E.
• Yawm al-Ithnayn 13 Dhū al-Ḥijjah
A.H. 1433
• Monday 29 October A.D. 2012
• Yom Sheni 13 Cheshvan A.M. 5773 |
The Bahá'í International Community publishes a special report on The Bahá'ís of Semnan: A Case Study in Religious Hatred.
This video report highlights the effect on one community of the Iranian
government's methodical and organized campaign to incite hatred against
the Bahá'ís and eliminate them as a viable social entity.
The Bahá'ís of Semnan have been the focus in recent years of an
intensifying persecution, facing an array of economic, physical and
psychological attacks. While these types of attacks on Bahá'ís are not
confined to Semnan, the situation there is noteworthy for its particular
intensity and the mobilization and coordination of official and
semi-official elements -- including the police, the courts, local
officials, and the clergy. |
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• Kamál 4 Qawl 169 B.E.
• Yawm al-Ithnayn 12 Muḥarram A.H. 1434
• Monday 26 November A.D. 2012
• Yom Sheni 12 Kislev A.M. 5773 |
The Universal House of Justice shares, in a message to all National Assemblies, a statement prepared by
the Office of Social and Economic Development at the Bahá'í World
Centre, a statement on the subject of and with the title of, Social Action.
The statement offers a brief overview of the involvement of the Bahá'í
community in the area of social and economic development, placing it in
the context of current activity at the level of the cluster. In this
connection, the House of Justice has requested us to make clear that the
distribution of the document should not be seen as a call for
widespread action in this area; it is intended as an instrument to raise
further consciousness about the nature of social action and some of the
methods it employs.
[Message from the Universal House of Justice dated 26 November, 2012] |
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• Ayyám-i-Há 169 / Bahá 170 B.E.
• Rabī' ath-thānī / Jumādá al-ūlá A.H. 1434
• March A.D. 2013
• Adar / Nissan A.M. 5773 |
The publication of the report entitled Violence with Impunity: Acts of Aggression Against Iran's Bahá'í Community published by the Bahá'í International Community. The report documents a
rising tide of violence directed against the Iranian Bahá'í community -
and the degree to which attackers enjoy complete impunity from
prosecution or punishment. From 2005 through 2012, for example, there
were 52 cases where Bahá'ís have been held in solitary confinement, and
another 52 incidents where Bahá'ís have been physically assaulted. Some
49 incidents of arson against Bahá'í homes and shops, more than 30 cases
of vandalism, and at least 42 incidents of cemetery desecration were
also documented. [BWNS972]
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• Fidál 4 `Alá' 169 B.E.
• Yawm ath-Thulāthā' 22 Rabī' ath-thānī
A.H. 1434
• Tuesday 5 March A.D. 2013
• Yom Shlishi 23 Adar A.M. 5773 |
The passing of Mas'ud Khamsi, former Counsellor member of the International Teaching Centre in Lima, Peru. [BWNS943] |
