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Baháʼís all around the world as well as in Macau have adopted an education and training program which caters to the spiritual needs of its participants and is arranged for different age groups as follows: Ages 5 – 7: Children's spiritual education classes Grade 1; Ages 8 – 11: Children's spiritual
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Spiritual Assembly of the Bahaʼis of Macau made an exchange visit to the provinces of Shaanxi and Gansu. Their hosts were the Ethnic and Religious Affairs Committee of these two provinces and exchanges were made with the Women Federation, Poverty Alleviation Department, and different religious
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The above systematic sequence of training courses is able to develop in participants a meaningful spiritual life and enable them, in various ways, to serve society. The above programs are usually delivered in the participants' homes in small groups. An individual need not be a Baháʼí to take these
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after studying this system of belief for five months—Mr. Harry P.F. Yim (Yen Pei-feng or Yim Pui Fung), a small-business proprietor from Canton (Guangzhou), China. In
October 1954 the second Macanese, Mr. Paul Kao became a Baháʼí. In that year, Mr. Manuel Ferreira, became the first Portuguese to
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Malaysia, the Baháʼí membership climbed to 36 adults with eleven youth. A few months later reports showed 47 adult Baháʼís and twelve youth in the three areas of Macau. A later statistical
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energies of junior youth; circles of study, open to all, that enable people of varied backgrounds to advance on equal footing and explore the application of the teachings to their individual and collective lives. “ [ Ref: Universal House of
Justice, “To the Baháʼís of the World” Ridvan 2010)
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Coloane. By 1973, there were eighteen believers spread out in three localities, the
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National Spiritual Assembly of the United States, but after the National Spiritual Assembly of North East Asia was elected in 1957 they were administered by that body.
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Director General of SARA, Mr. Ye Xiao Wen, led a delegation from SARA to visit the Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of Macau. In April the same year, he led another delegation to Israel, which included a visit to the
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The Director of the Policy and Regulations Department of SARA and the vice-chairman of the Ethnic and Religious Affairs Committee of Guangdong Province visited the office of the Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of
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Mr Zhang Lebin, the new Deputy Director-General of SARA also visited the Office of the Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of Macau. SARA's Director for External Affairs accompanied Mr. Wang and Mr. Zhang on their
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The Baháʼí community and the other four major religions in Macau jointly invited Mr. Wang Zuo'an, the new Director-General of SARA to Macau. He visited the office of the Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of
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gave permission for Macau to elect its own National Spiritual Assembly. It was the third National Spiritual Assembly in Chinese territory. Taiwan was the first, in 1967, with Hong Kong the second.
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The following is a non-exhaustive timeline of some of the recent activities of the Macau Baháʼí Community involving various institutions and government agencies of the People's Republic of China.
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The Chairman of the Spiritual Assembly went to Beijing, together with other religious leaders, to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China.
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1030:Kyrgyzstan
1010:Kazakhstan
930:Bangladesh
920:Azerbaijan
790:References
772:April 2010
403:Statistics
398:Prophecies
350:Pilgrimage
340:Síyáh-Chál
1226:Hong Kong
1180:Palestine
1105:Sri Lanka
1100:Singapore
980:Indonesia
592:courses.
388:Cosmology
93:Teachings
1249:Category
1170:Abkhazia
1120:Thailand
1075:Pakistan
1055:Mongolia
1050:Maldives
1045:Malaysia
945:Cambodia
694:May 2007
426:Category
273:Apostles
235:Timeline
123:Calendar
34:a series
32:Part of
1145:Vietnam
1060:Myanmar
1040:Lebanon
970:Georgia
925:Bahrain
915:Armenia
785:visits.
714:groups.
517:Coloane
393:Symbols
298:Táhirih
224:History
70:The Báb
1190:Taiwan
1125:Turkey
1090:Russia
1025:Kuwait
1005:Jordan
995:Israel
955:Cyprus
940:Brunei
935:Bhutan
776:Macau.
755:Macau.
328:Qiblih
312:Places
257:People
240:Bábism
118:Prayer
87:Basics
36:on the
1231:Macau
1150:Yemen
1110:Syria
1085:Qatar
1065:Nepal
1000:Japan
975:India
965:Egypt
950:China
513:Taipa
470:Macau
355:Haifa
283:Bábis
1070:Oman
1035:Laos
990:Iraq
985:Iran
644:The
641:1993
515:and
464:The
360:Acre
113:Laws
1202:and
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630:.
546:.
511:,
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872:v
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