771:, in which they could become involved in the social and economic development of the communities in which they lived. Worldwide in 1979 there were 129 officially recognized Baháʼí socio-economic development projects. By 1987, the number of officially recognized development projects had increased to 1482. In 1985 the Baháʼí International Community canvassed the National Assemblies with a questionnaire - 77 of the 143 then existing assemblies responded. Jamaican responses highlighted a sense that women in Jamaica were taking on leadership positions in local assemblies. Former assistant to the dean of the
608:. Urge earnest deliberation with the incoming National Assembly to ensure its complete fulfillment. The first century of the Baháʼí Era is drawing to a close. Humanity entering outer fringes most perilous stage its existence. Opportunities of present hour unimaginably precious. Would to God every State within American Republic and every Republic in American continent might ere termination of this glorious century embrace the light of the Faith of Baháʼu'lláh and establish structural basis of His World Order.
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802:, proclaimed a National Baháʼí Day first on July 25 in 2003 and it has been an annual event since. Among the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of the first Jamaican local spiritual assembly after two weeks of events was a blood drive organized by the Baháʼís of Kingston. The festivities were also attended by retired Continental Counselor Ruth Pringle just two weeks before her death. In 2006 the Baháʼís of
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the new executive director at the Women's
Resource and Outreach Centre in Kingston. In 2005 the international Baháʼí choir, Voices of Bahá, performed in Jamaica as part of their first tour in the Caribbean and performed at Ward Theatre and the University's Chapel with proceeds earmarked to two Jamaican charities serving families of policemen slain in the line of duty and the Denham Town Golden Age Home.
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Mitchell, Mr. Alfred Senior, Miss Emily Taylor, Miss Ruby Taylor, Mr. Clarence
Ullrich, Mrs. Margarite Ullrich. Later the Universal House of Justice called for eight Oceanic and Continental Conferences and one was held in Kingston for the Caribbean region in May 1971. In 1981, just before the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Baháʼí community in Jamaica, Hand of the Cause
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held a 4-day exhibition at the public library on the history of the Faith in
Jamaica with the Baháʼí Day observance. The Baháʼí Centre in Kingston has hosted Sir Howard Cooke's Thursday Group which has continued to operate since Sir Cooke's retirement in 2006. In 2008 Baháʼí Dorothy Whyte was named
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of the United States and Canada appointed the Inter-America
Committee to take charge of the preparations. During the 1937 Baháʼí North American Convention, Shoghi Effendi cabled advising the convention to prolong their deliberations to permit the delegates and the National Assembly to consult on a
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traveled throughout the
Caribbean region and spent six days in Jamaica. She was received by the Governor General and Prime Minister while over two hundred Baháʼís attended a weekend conference and more non-Baháʼís attended a public meeting. A twenty-minute television interview as well as general
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as the new head of the religion. The electors were the members of the national assemblies then in existence. The members of the
Jamaican National Assembly who participated in the election were Miss Doris Maud Buchanan, Mr. Randolph Fitz-Henley, Miss Alice Maude Gallier, Mr. Wm. Arthur Wellesley
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After a brief visit in 1939 by John and Rosa Shaw from San
Francisco, the community of the Baháʼí Faith in Jamaica began in 1942 with the arrival of Dr. Malcolm King - from Portland, Oregon, United States and of Jamaican background. King taught the religion to Marion Maxwell, the first Jamaican
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beginning by giving greater freedom to women, promulgating the promotion of female education as a priority concern, and that involvement was given practical expression by creating schools, agricultural coops, and clinics. The religion entered a new phase of activity when a message of the
670:. There was also Eustace Whyte among the early Baháʼís of Jamaica who served as president of UNIA's Harmony Division in Kingston as well as elected to the Local Spiritual Assembly of Kingston. Garvey scholar Robert Hill gave a eulogy at one of Whyte's funeral services.
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From the early period of development the Baháʼí community in
Jamaica grew in organization and relationship with the wider community while growing internally as well. Before national independence, the Jamaicans were part of a regional National Spiritual Assembly of the
629:(1937–44), which was an international plan designed by Shoghi Effendi, gave the American Baháʼís the goal of establishing the Baháʼí Faith in every country in Latin America. With the spread of American Baháʼís in Latin American, Baháʼí communities and
488:, proclaiming a National Baháʼí Day first on July 25 in 2003 and it has been an annual event since. While there is evidence of several active communities by 2008 in Jamaica, estimates of the Baháʼís population range from the hundreds to the thousands.
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Warren Odess-Gillett interviews Harry Logan, a Bahaʼi from
Jamaica that was passing through after being in Haifa, Israel as a delegate from his country to elect the world governing body of the Bahaʼis called the Universal House of
480:, and on the eve of national independence in 1962, the Jamaica Baháʼís elected their own National Spiritual Assembly in 1961. By 1981 hundreds of Baháʼís and hundreds more non-Baháʼís turned out for weekend meetings when
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779:, Naomi McCord, and her husband served as caretakers of the National Baháʼí Center in Kingston for a number of years. McCord willed more than 200 volumes from her personal library to the center.
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Jamaican community, the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of Jamaica was a founding member of the Jamaican Interfaith Council in 1992.
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1374:. World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women: Equality, Development and Peace. Nairobi, Kenya: Baháʼí International Community.
1210:"The Baháʼí Faith: 1844-1963: Information Statistical and Comparative, Including the Achievements of the Ten Year International Baháʼí Teaching & Consolidation Plan 1953-1963"
650:). The first Baháʼí Local Spiritual Assembly of Jamaica, in Kingston, was elected in 1943. Mitchell was the Jamaican delegate to the Baháʼí All-America Convention called for by
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during August 28–31, and in 2002 Baháʼís participated in a national dialogue on transcending tribalistic boundaries present in politics. Governor General of Jamaica, Sir
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839:) estimated some 5137 Baháʼís in 2005. In 2006 there were 21 local spiritual assemblies. In 2008, Baháʼí community events are listed especially in Montego Bay,
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of the United States and Canada, and asked for the systematic implementation of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's vision to begin. In his cable he wrote:
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dated 20 October 1983 was released. Baháʼís were urged to seek out ways, compatible with the
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Appeal to assembled delegates ponder historic appeal voiced by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá in
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in 1916-1917; these letters were compiled together in the book titled
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to be established in all the countries of Latin America. The Baháʼí
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1336:"The Baha'i Faith 1957–1988: A Survey of Contemporary Developments"
1123:. Wilmette, Illinois, USA: Baháʼí Publishing Committee. p. 6.
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coverage by radio and television reporters highlighted her visit.
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1593:"Missionary Atlas Project - Central America, Snapshot of Jamaica"
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In 1963 the Baháʼís of the world looked to the election of the
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Baháʼí and William Mitchell (previously accountant for the
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began to form in 1938 across the rest of Latin America.
1660:. National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of Jamaica
552:.…(travel to) the Islands of the West Indies, such as
1572:"Jamaica International Religious Freedom Report 2004"
508:. The sixth of the tablets was the first to mention
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536:. The sixth tablet was translated and presented by
1180:Postnationalism Prefigured: Caribbean Borderlands
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1291:draft "A Short Encyclopedia of the Baha'i Faith"
1910:Baháʼí Faith in Latin America and the Caribbean
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913:Tablets, Instructions and Words of Explanation
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1146:. Oxford, UK: George Ronald. p. 254.
1103:. West Linn, OR: M L VanOrman Enterprises.
986:"National Spiritual Assemblies Statistics"
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1570:U.S. State Department (2005-09-15).
1334:Momen, Moojan; Smith, Peter (1989).
1013:Baháʼí World, Vol. XVIII: 1979-1983
910:ʻAbbas, ʻAbdu'l-Bahá (April 1919).
625:in Wilmette, Illinois. In 1937 the
540:on April 4, 1919, and published in
1387:"Naomi McCord, 83, Baha'i teacher"
777:Washington University in St. Louis
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1385:Ann Moore, Waveney (2005-01-26).
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1687:A Bahaʼi Perspective 10.18.2008
1142:Cameron, G.; Momen, W. (1996).
1097:Lamb, Artemus (November 1995).
965:"Joyous festivities in Jamaica"
544:magazine on December 12, 1919.
1450:Baháʼí International Community
1366:Baháʼí International Community
1311:Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi (1997).
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1625:"Most Baha'i Nations (2005)"
1530:. 2008-10-06. Archived from
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1426:Wright, Andre (2002-10-27).
1411:. 2000-10-28. Archived from
1352:10.1016/0048-721X(89)90077-8
932:Bridge, Abena (2000-07-05).
837:World Christian Encyclopedia
702:. In 1963 there were Baháʼí
1682:Baháʼí Community of Jamaica
1501:. UPF/IIFWP. Archived from
1493:Sayre, Sally (2008-07-30).
1254:House of Justice, Universal
1208:Residing in the Holy Land.
618:National Spiritual Assembly
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1068:Tablets of the Divine Plan
792:International Day of Peace
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760:socio-economic development
747:Universal House of Justice
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704:Local Spiritual Assemblies
682:Jamaica parishes and towns
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506:Tablets of the Divine Plan
196:Universal House of Justice
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460:begins with a mention by
367:Socioeconomic development
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1428:"Baha'is call for unity"
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598:Baháʼí Annual Convention
580:, have great importance…
470:Local Spiritual Assembly
2211:Bahá'í Faith by country
1264:. Baháʼí Library Online
1232:. Baháʼí World Centre.
1010:Locke, Hugh C. (1983).
878:Baháʼí Faith by country
863:Have You Heard the News
662:to the area now called
623:Baháʼí House of Worship
181:Covenant of Baháʼu'lláh
157:Some Answered Questions
1599:. 2007. Archived from
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1476:Jamaican Gleaner News
1432:Jamaican Gleaner News
1409:Jamaican Gleaner News
1317:Baháʼí Studies Review
1258:"Ridván Letter, 1969"
938:Jamaican Gleaner News
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666:in 1953 and later in
627:First Seven Year Plan
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312:Shrine of Baháʼu'lláh
277:Letters of the Living
1654:"Schedule of Events"
1391:St. Petersburg Times
1175:V. Carnegie, Charles
201:Spiritual Assemblies
186:Administrative Order
2206:Religion in Jamaica
2014:Trinidad and Tobago
1926:Antigua and Barbuda
1725:Religion in Jamaica
1293:. Bahai-library.com
1120:Messages to America
847:, and the Kingston/
1965:Dominican Republic
1472:"Baha'i celebrate"
1206:Hands of the Cause
888:History of Jamaica
883:Culture of Jamaica
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646:(UNIA) founded by
538:Mirza Ahmad Sohrab
257:Hands of the Cause
117:Nineteen Day Feast
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693:Hand of the Cause
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92:Unity of humanity
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