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Catholics. First, Roy was an amateur magician. Roy was a confident figure who held a show along with a piano the first night they arrived. Records show that within weeks he attracted Sunday audiences perhaps dropping attendance at Sunday services. In the judgement of researcher Graham Hassall, Roy was most likely unaware of the fact that sorcery and magic were practiced widely in Gilbertese culture, and were being actively suppressed by the Catholics ministers and now here was a new presence in the community giving shows including magic tricks. Indeed, there are reports the Catholic minister's actions against the Baháʼís helped spread knowledge of them. Then there was the attempt of the Fernies to set up an English language school - and the fund-raising activities they organised in Tuarabu conflicted with the Tuarabu Catholics attempt to raise funds for their own purposes and embarrassingly unable to match donations with another nearby Catholic community. Indeed, a quarter ton of text books were sent from the Baháʼís of Panama to support the imminent school which was to be open to all natives irrespective of their religion. Lastly the conversion of a seminarian and missionary teacher away from Catholicism - these are all issues mostly likely to lead to antagonism from the Catholics. Indeed, the Catholic mission worked to have the Fernies deported, and on several occasions used its journal to "warn" its members against examining this new religion. Central to their initial complaint to authorities, however, was the fact that missionary activity required 100 or 200 individuals to sanction a group of religionists to allow for missionary work. However over two hundred Abaiang residents registered their wish to become Baháʼís after showing up at the home of the Fernies at 3am, and some 90 people came the next day to see Koru whom Catholic opposition had forced into banishment to his home island of
718:, and excerpts from the writings of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá until later in 1956 when Marsella left. Before she left the Education Department had approved Elena and two native Baháʼís as teachers in the new school. The new Baháʼí community which had formed essentially in one year continued to function and for a time Shoghi Effendi requested no further pioneers go to the Gilbert Islands. Koru did not meet Baháʼís again until four years later, but he remained steadfast in his beliefs. By the time Baháʼís were eventually able to come to visit him, nine more people were active members of the religion on his island, (apparently nearly fifty had been drawn to the religion there.) One of them was a Protestant minister then under disciplinary sanction by his church.
744:, or the seat, of the National Assembly. Pioneers Joe Russell (arrived in May 1959, and became a Kiritbati citizen) and John Thurston soon followed. Meanwhile, the school started by the Fernies was noted as still in existence in 1958 despite their absence. By 1959 a new building, on donated land and built by Baháʼís alone, had managed to be built for the school while temporary housing for visitors and Baháʼí centers were being raised. By November 1959 two summer schools were held and a conference to discuss the progress of the religion on the islands. Russell was able to travel to Tabiteuea to join Koru in December 1959 and together they helped establish three assemblies by April 1960. By 1961 there were thirteen communities with Baháʼís.
1156:, 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. The Baháʼís of Kiribati have engaged a wide variety of social and economic development projects. The Ootan Marawa Baháʼí Vocational Institute, a high school, is the only teacher training institution for pre-school teachers in Kiribati. It is open to all, regardless of religion, and is assisted by the National Spiritual Assemblies of the Baháʼís of Australia and
493:, the communities of Baháʼís also reformed into separate institutions of National Spiritual Assemblies in 1981. The Baháʼís had established a number of schools by 1963 and there are still such today - indeed the Ootan Marawa Baháʼí Vocational Institute being the only teacher training institution for pre-school teachers in Kiribati. All together the Baháʼís now claim more than 10,000 local people have joined the religion over the last 50 years and there are 38 local spiritual assemblies.
731:. In earliest 1957 Shoghi Effendi allowed pioneers to consider the Gilbert Islands and Frances Heller from the United States was able to arrive on February 8, 1957. She was able to remain despite failing health until June 1958 - having helped elect the spiritual assembly of Betio. American Mabel Adelle Sneider was the next to arrive and she and Heller agreed the religion needed to be taken to the capital of the islands. So it was that Sneider established herself in the village of
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Suva, Fiji to which
Gilbert Island Baháʼís went. Following that conference a national conference for the Gilbert Islands was held at the Baháʼí Institute. As of 1972 the statistics of the national assembly counted 2700 members across Gilbert and Ellice Islands with 51 Assemblies. In February 1973 the national assembly produced two five-minute radio programs for an observance of
1069:. In 1978 the Baháʼís took various roles about societal issues. First in several events across the islands they participated in and helped organize the occasions commemorating Japanese soldiers who died in the islands in World War II. Second they helped during a cholera outbreak in September - the Baha'is relayed messages using the radio equipment on the Baháʼí-owned catamaran
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1169:, and ministers of government in speeches when they then attended a 1986 peace conference at which over 1000 Baháʼís attended. The successes of the schools in Kiribati were discussed at the 100th Anniversary of the Baháʼí Faith in Hawaii at breakout workshops in 2001 which included participants from many countries. The Kiribati government supported the
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Internal the community among the developments are the following. In 1990 the national convention elected two indigenous women, Maureen
Nakekea and Marao Teem, to the national assembly. At the 50th anniversary, 2004, celebrations of the Baháʼí Faith in Kiribati dignitaries attending included President
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and the other islands. With hearts overflowing with the love of God, with tongues commemorating the mention of God, with eyes turned to the
Kingdom of God, they must deliver the glad tidings of the manifestation of the Lord of Hosts to all the people. Know ye of a certainty that whatever gathering ye
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in
October 1958. Sneider lived there for 15 years helping to transfer the center of Baháʼí activities from the relatively remote island of Abaiang to the civic capital on Tarawa - eventually Snieder was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly often serving as secretary or treasurer at one time or
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There has long been a discrepancy between census figures and assertions by the Baháʼí community on their population in
Kiribati. The census figures are consistently between 2 and 3% while the Baháʼís claim numbers above 17% as far back as 1987. Baháʼís now claim more than 10,000 local people have
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in 1967. In 1970 the national assembly held three classes on methods Baháʼís use for growth of the religion and began holding them in a building, the Baháʼí Institute, owned by the assembly. In May 1971 an international conference on the progress of the religion across the south pacific as held in
477:(aka Charlotte Island, of the Gilbert Islands), on March 4, 1954. They encountered serious opposition from some Catholics on the islands and were eventually deported and the first convert banished to his home island. However, in one year there was a community of more than 200 Baháʼís and a Baháʼí
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was making a last run before the owner left the islands and came across a girl in the ocean who was returned to her native island alive though feared dead. By 1979 the national assembly reported there were 80 local assemblies - 16 of which were officially registered with the government and 13 of
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In 1956 four assemblies (including
Tuarabu, Tebero, and Kuria) were elected and five smaller groups of Baháʼís. In addition to Koru, other early converts included Taukoriri Eritai, who became a Baháʼí at the time the Fernies were on Abainag, and Timeon Tamaroa who helped take the religion to the
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When Koru became the first Baháʼí Shoghi
Effendi urged him in a letter of welcome to be "very discreet in spreading this Message", explaining that the Baháʼís did not wish to become a "source of discord, or arouse opposition". However several issues came to the fore to animate hostility from the
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the national assembly distributed background materials on the observance to national
Director of Information, thee King George IV boarding school, the island Teachers College, and to the Department of Education. In 1976 Hand of the Cause Collis Featherstone made a return trip the islands of the
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that was broadcast on radio in two languages, Gilbertese and Ellice. The program was on the equality of men and women, with passages from the
Writings of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá and a report on the advancement of women in the islands. In April 1973 twenty-three delegates from nine islands gathered in the
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and Madam Tong, Mr. Michael Fudakowski, representing the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of New Zealand and who lived for some 17 years in Kiribati with his wife, Robin White, now a member of the Continental Board of Counsellors in Australasia, and their family. Mr. Dominic Tabuaka
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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
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Following the growth of the institutions the sociological impact of the Baháʼís became more well known starting in the 1980s. It became known that the Baháʼís of Kiribati used traditional Maneba buildings to meet in. Thanks to Peter King, a New Zealand Baháʼí pioneer on
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and the outer islands. They accept pupils of all religious affiliations. After coming to a reception at the national convention and noting the importance of religious unity and liberty in Kiribati, the contributions to Kiribati society were noted by then president,
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later in June. His pregnant wife who went into labour had to be left behind in a hospital and she died a short time later. On 24 September 1955 the government gave legal recognition to the first Baháʼí institution in the islands, the village of Tuarabu's Baháʼí
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seminarian and mission teacher Peter Kanere Koru quickly became the first convert on the island. He attributed his conversion in part to his attraction to the racial equality practiced by the pioneers, and their desire to implement such equality in his society.
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With a few pioneers and many local converts the community in the South Pacific was organized into a regional national spiritual assembly for the South Pacific Islands which was elected from 1957 to 1967 including Cook Island, Fiji,
1110:, converted, and then moved on the islands of Micronesia, including back to Kiribati, and was well known to have reformed his behavior among his family on Kiribati and friends. He died in 1982 back on the Solomon Islands. In 1984,
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on the island of Abaiang. Regardless, Roy Fernie was deported in November 1955 with the support of local land owners. Through correspondence Koru and Elena Marsella were working on translations of a collection of the
528:. The seventh of the tablets mentioned taking the Baháʼí Faith to the Gilbert Islands and was written on April 11, 1916, but was delayed in being presented in the United States until 1919 — after the end of
548:(Tablet 7) "A party speaking their languages, severed, holy, sanctified and filled with the love of God, must turn their faces to and travel through the three great island groups of the Pacific Ocean—
765:(now called Banaba Island) and one of the delegates from the Gilbert Islands was able to attend the convention to elect the regional national spiritual assembly for the South Pacific Islands.
514:. ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, head of the religion from 1892 to 1921, mentioned the Gilbert Islands among the places Baháʼís should take the religion to. ʻAbdu'l-Bahá wrote a series of letters, or
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1444:"The Baháʼí Faith: 1844-1963: Information Statistical and Comparative, Including the Achievements of the Ten Year International Baháʼí Teaching & Consolidation Plan 1953-1963"
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was partly due to a certain amount of response from some youths of wider experience and education as well as from some village folk among whom Baháʼís settled In October 1966
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region. While in Kiribati he addressed a reception held in his honor and attended by the governor, deputy governor, and government ministers and secretaries. A copy of
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and the Gilbert Islands and others formed Kiribati, the communities of Baháʼís also reformed into separate institutions of National Spiritual Assemblies in 1981.
1588:"Message to the Annual Baha'i Conventions From the Hands of the Faith in the Holy Land;Widespread Enrollment of Indigenes (section mentioning Gilbert Islands)".
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1065:, vol. XIV, was presented to the governor for the House of Assembly library and a 20-minute radio interview with Mr. and Mrs. Featherstone was broadcast over
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which also ferried patients to the hospital and a Baháʼí served as secretary of the government's response committee created to manage the epidemic. The
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By the end of 1963 there were a wide range of communities across the Gilbert Islands with 14 assemblies, 19 groups, and 7 additional isolated Baháʼís.
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attended the dedication of the main Baháʼí center of the islands inaugurated with a conference discussing the progress of the religion on the island.
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professor Charles Forman analyzed religious trends across the Pacific Islands and attributes the surprising growth of the Baháʼí Faith across
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481:. Three years later the island where the first convert was sent to was found to now have 10 Baháʼís. By 1963 there were 14 assemblies. As the
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1887:"A review of international Baha'i programs in support of special United Nations days during 1973; (section on Gilbert and Ellice Islands)".
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1970:"Victory Messages - The Baha'i world resounds with the glorious news of Five Year Plan victories; (section on Gilbert Islands/Tuvalu)".
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enter, the waves of the Holy Spirit are surging over it, and the heavenly grace of the Blessed Beauty encompasseth that gathering."
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vote on the "Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran" (A/56/583/Add.3 Draft Resolution) on 19 December 2001.
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1872:"Around the World - National Conventions; Gilbert & Ellice Is. (section on Gilbert & Ellice Islands)".
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1668:"Message From the Hands of the Cause in the Holy Land to the Fifth Intercontinental Conference in Singapore".
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1683:"Message from the Hands of the Cause in the Holy Land To the First Convention of the South Pacific Islands".
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The first Baháʼís to Kiribati were Elena Marsella and Roy Fernie, who left their home in
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2250:"'Fire in the Pacific' conference marks 100th anniversary of the Baháʼí Faith in Hawaii"
2188:. University of Guam Press & Micronesian Area Research Center, Guam. pp. 73–95.
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1418:. University of Guam Press & Micronesian Area Research Center, Guam. pp. 73–95.
1253:(Paperback ed.). Wilmette, Illinois, USA: Baháʼí Publishing Trust. pp. 40–42.
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joined the religion over the last 50 years and there are 38 local spiritual assemblies.
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1848:"Report of Human Rights Day Observances (section on Gilbert and Ellice Islands)".
1160:. There are five pre-schools administered by Baháʼí local spiritual assemblies on
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1902:"Around the World; Gilbert Islands; Mr. Featherstone tours island communities".
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1603:"International News; Central America; Havana Convention termed Great Success".
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1698:"First South Pacific Teaching Conference at Suva Precedes First Convention".
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Finau, Makisi; Teeruro Ieuti; Jione Langi (1992). Forman, Charles W. (ed.).
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in 1916-1917; these letters were compiled together in the book titled
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2151:"The Baha'i Faith 1957–1988: A Survey of Contemporary Developments"
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1932:"Around the World; Gilbert Is./Tuvalu Baha'is help in epidemic".
1555:"Gilbert and Ellice Island Pioneers Establish Schools, Centers".
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1627:. Vol. XVIII. Baháʼí World Centre. pp. 705–7, 805–6.
1917:"Around the World; Gilbert Is./Tuvalu Baha'is in ceremonies".
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and positions on the National Spiritual Assembly of Panama to
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Island - Eita, Utiroa, Taku and Tababuea Primary Schools.
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Since its inception the religion has had involvement in
1326:"Baháʼí Faith in the Asia Pacific Issues and Prospects"
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than to the capital on Tarawa, 2000 miles to the west.
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another. She helped purchase the site for the National
1728:"First National Assembly of Pacific Islands Elected".
678:), on March 4, 1954. For this service they were named
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which form part of modern Kiribati. The first Baháʼís
1713:"Thirteen Villages Opened on Tabiteuea in Gilberts".
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Multiplying interests and activities of the community
1462:"National Spiritual Assemblies statistics 1923-1999"
560:, and the islands attached to these groups, such as
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2128:"Education of women and socio-economic development"
1818:"Gilbert and Ellice Islands Teaching Conferences".
1198:, the United States, and Western Caroline Islands.
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1803:"Pearls of the Pacific - The Oceanic Conference".
1570:"Asia; Enroll many believers in Pacific Islands".
2199:"The World; Reception honors Counsellor Benson".
1788:"Gilbert and Ellice Islands Teaching Institute".
1773:"Teaching Conference representing six islands…".
1521:"Pacific Islands Awaken to Call of Baha'u'llah".
536:. These tablets were translated and presented by
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2274:. Baháʼí International Community. Archived from
2106:draft "A Short Encyclopedia of the Baha'i Faith"
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1559:. No. 345. November 1959. pp. 11–12.
1489:Tablets, Instructions and Words of Explanation
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1460:Hassall, Graham; Universal House of Justice.
1081:As the Ellice Islands gained independence as
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1672:. No. 333. November 1958. pp. 2–4.
695:Incidents related to the first native Baháʼí
2203:. No. 680. November 1987. p. 14.
1951:. No. 585. December 1979. p. 14.
1906:. No. 540. March 1976. pp. 18–19.
1891:. No. 522. September 1974. p. 21.
1510:. No. 287. January 1955. pp. 2–3.
1492:. Mirza Ahmad Sohrab (trans. and comments).
1122:. By 1986 there is a Baháʼí on the Pacific
1048:National Teaching Institute and the Baháʼí
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2300:. No. 674. October 1990. p. 15.
2037:. No. 609. December 1981. p. 14.
1837:. No. 488. April 1973. pp. 9–10.
1822:. No. 488. November 1971. p. 14.
1762:. No. 366. September 1961. p. 9.
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518:, to the followers of the religion in the
489:and the Gilbert Islands and others formed
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2067:. No. 658. January 1986. p. 15.
1702:. No. 340. June 1959. pp. 9–10.
1525:. No. 301. March 1956. pp. 6–7.
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502:ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's Tablets of the Divine Plan
1974:. No. 581. August 1979. p. 9.
1807:. No. 485. August 1971. p. 12.
1732:. No. 341. June 1959. pp. 4–8.
1687:. No. 341. July 1959. pp. 8–9.
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1921:. No. 565. April 1976. p. 16.
1876:. No. 505. April 1973. p. 21.
1852:. No. 505. April 1973. p. 15.
1777:. No. 433. April 1967. p. 10.
1574:. No. 306. August 1956. p. 7.
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2593:1954 in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands
2323:. No. 676. July 1987. p. 4.
2226:. No. 674. May 1987. p. 17.
2182:"Pacific Baháʼí Communities 1950-1964"
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1792:. No. 483. June 1971. p. 21.
1747:. No. 363. June 1961. p. 18.
1717:. No. 362. June 1961. p. 19.
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722:Continued early growth of the religion
2272:"UN General Assembly Resolution 2001"
2102:"History of the Baha'i Faith in Iran"
2078:Trussel, Stephen (Fall–Winter 1986).
1592:. No. 351. June 1960. p. 3.
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1363:Island Churches: Challenge and Change
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2149:Momen, Moojan; Smith, Peter (1989).
457:begins after 1916 with a mention by
1996:Eyley, Claudia Pond (Winter 1984).
1621:Universal House of Justice (1986).
1486:ʻAbbas, ʻAbdu'l-Bahá (April 1919).
540:on April 4, 1919, and published in
2346:Kiribati Baháʼí National Community
2184:. In H. Rubinstein, Donald (ed.).
1506:"World Crusade; Gilbert Islands".
1414:. In Rubinstein, Donald H. (ed.).
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670:. They arrived on the island of
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2080:"Kiritimati: A Christmas Visit"
544:magazine on December 12, 1919.
2401:Federated States of Micronesia
2268:Baháʼí International Community
2246:Baháʼí International Community
2126:Kingdon, Geeta Gandhi (1997).
1947:"Around the World; Kiribati".
1294:Baháʼí International Community
1106:where he came in contact with
682:by then head of the religion,
674:(aka Charlotte Island, of the
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1758:"International News Briefs".
1743:"International News Briefs".
1332:. Vol. 6. pp. 1–10.
1078:which had their own centers.
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832:9. Taku, South Tabiteuea 10.
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2167:10.1016/0048-721X(89)90077-8
1013:Forming a national community
895:, Tarawa 6. Eita, Tarawa 7.
820:, North Tabiteuea 7. Kuria,
1862:Previously printed Naneaba.
1442:Residing in the Holy Land.
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1298:"Sailing in for a jubilee"
1250:Tablets of the Divine Plan
1150:Universal House of Justice
1145:socio-economic development
525:Tablets of the Divine Plan
196:Universal House of Justice
2254:Baháʼí World News Service
1998:"Robin White in Kiribati"
1302:Baháʼí World News Service
1098:, a center was raised on
748:Growth across the country
367:Socioeconomic development
2547:Northern Mariana Islands
2382:Baháʼí Faith in Oceania
2180:Hassall, Graham (1992).
1410:Graham, Hassall (1992).
1324:Hassall, Graham (1996).
707:Local Spiritual Assembly
479:Local Spiritual Assembly
455:Baháʼí Faith in Kiribati
2598:Bahá'í Faith in Oceania
2588:Bahá'í Faith by country
2512:Cocos (Keeling) Islands
2296:"The World; Kiribati".
2222:"The World; Kiribati".
2063:"The World; Kiribati".
1468:. Baháʼí Library Online
1466:Assorted Resource Tools
485:gained independence as
181:Covenant of Baháʼu'lláh
157:Some Answered Questions
840:, North Tabiteuea 12.
680:Knights of Baha'u'llah
655:
372:Progressive revelation
2495:and other territories
2132:Baháʼí Studies Review
2031:"The World; Kiribati"
1330:Baháʼí Studies Review
1180:Internal developments
844:, South Tabiteuea 13.
546:
312:Shrine of Baháʼu'lláh
277:Letters of the Living
2583:Religion in Kiribati
2008:(31). Archived from
1222:Religion in Kiribati
1139:Focus to the society
1036:Rahmatu'lláh Muhájir
602:Bismarck Archipelago
201:Spiritual Assemblies
186:Administrative Order
2108:. Bahai-library.com
1217:History of Kiribati
1126:which is closer to
1029:Collis Featherstone
640:, Gilbert Islands,
2084:East/West Magazine
1446:. pp. 26, 28.
1440:Hands of the Cause
1058:United Nations Day
852:, North Tabiteuea
578:Philippine Islands
538:Mirza Ahmad Sohrab
257:Hands of the Cause
117:Nineteen Day Feast
2570:
2569:
2562:Wallis and Futuna
2470:Associated states
1373:978-982-02-0077-7
1063:The Baháʼí' World
1026:Hand of the Cause
1003:
1002:
999:Village, Abaiang
510:and included the
473:to the island of
451:
450:
324:Shrine of the Báb
97:Unity of religion
92:Unity of humanity
2605:
2552:Pitcairn Islands
2522:French Polynesia
2507:Christmas Island
2436:Papua New Guinea
2416:Marshall Islands
2389:Sovereign states
2375:
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2361:
2352:
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2060:
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2027:
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1290:
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1241:
1174:General Assembly
1154:Baháʼí teachings
1134:Modern community
1124:Christmas Island
1100:Christmas Island
1045:Human Rights Day
964:Isolated Baháʼís
953:, Tabiteuea 19.
945:, Tabiteuea 17.
932:, Tabiteuea 15.
776:
646:Marshall Islands
638:Hawaiian Islands
626:Caroline Islands
614:Friendly Islands
542:Star of the West
443:
436:
429:
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307:House of Worship
191:The Guardianship
150:The Hidden Words
41:
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2062:
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2057:
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724:
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660:
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622:Society Islands
594:Loyalty Islands
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