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938:. In 1928 there were seven assemblies between New Zealand and Australia – by 1939 the number of assemblies had reduced to 4 but the locations with Baháʼís increased to 17 and by 1940 the count of assemblies reached 19 while there were still 17 other locations with smaller groups of Baháʼís. In 1931 Keith Ransom-Kehler also visited. In 1934 Baháʼís from Australia and New Zealand elected a regional National Assembly - there were three delegates from Auckland, three from Sydney and three from Adelaide. From 1934 to 1939 Stevenson served on the regional National Spiritual Assembly of Australia and New Zealand and then died shortly thereafter in 1941. In 1940 the community held its first season school. In 1947 Alvin and Gertrude Blum left the United States for New Zealand where they lived until 1953 when they pioneered and became 1031:, 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 recognised Baháʼí socio-economic development projects. By 1987, the number of officially recognised development projects had increased to 1482. In the modern Baháʼí community of New Zealand the Baháʼís have multiplied their interests internally and externally. Aside from major themes there have also been individual work done in variety of topics – for example 866: 575: 710: 517:.) The Babís were blamed for an attempted assassination of the Shah of Persia. Recent scholarship has identified a fringe element distinct from all the major aspects of the religion, its community and leadership at the time. Nevertheless, coverage in newspapers at the time often echoed the Persian government's view blaming the Babís and Babís in large numbers were in fact executed as a result. 742: 662: 646: 582: 889: 758: 694: 678: 614: 598: 873: 726: 905: 630: 774: 39: 411: 1150:) estimated some 7400 Baháʼís in 2005. There are more than 65 local Baháʼí communities around New Zealand, the large city communities have hundreds of members and assemblies, while some rural areas having groups of just two or three Baháʼís. About 46 are full-fledged assemblies. The religion was called a "mainstream religion" by the 1112:. In 2007 Dunedin Baháʼís had been granted access to a community centre. The Universal House of Justice called for a regional conference for the Baháʼís from New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Fiji, Hawaii, Kiribati, New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu to be held in Auckland's 1227:
was a member of the New Zealand Parliament from 1972 to 1975. He later enrolled in the Baháʼí community and served on the national governing body for two years before he and his wife, Miette, began a period of service at the Baháʼí World Centre in Haifa, Israel, which lasted from 1994 to 2007. At the
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A 1999 report from the census bureau noted that of the citizens of New Zealand of Middle Eastern ethnicity, 4% were Baháʼí and 20% of the Baháʼís in New Zealand are members of some ethnic minority. The 1991 and 2006 New Zealand census reports about 2800 Baháʼís though the 1996 census listed just over
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After receiving a compilation on forming Assemblies they then returned to New Zealand in December 1925. They also returned with some dust from the Tomb of Baháʼu'lláh which was placed in New Zealand soil at Stevenson's home in a ceremony held on 14 February 1926. Later in 1926 the Baháʼís in Auckland
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resident Margaret Stevenson's sister living in the United Kingdom had sent her a copy of "The Christian Commonwealth" which had reported on ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's speech in London on 27 March 1911. In 1912 Stevenson rented a room to English Baháʼí Dorothea Spinney – a traveling performer of Greek plays – who
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invited Russell to do some live concerts, radio and television shows and to lecture at the various universities around the country on behalf of the New Zealand Broadcasting Commission and Music Trades Association. Russell, finished with his lectures and concerts and on advice of friends, drove up to
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on 4 April 1919, and published in Star of the West magazine on 12 December 1919. Chambers is known to have exchanged letters with ʻAbdu'l-Bahá in 1919. Stevenson received a visit by Australian community founders John and Clara Hyde-Dunn in 1922 and again in 1923 and the New Zealand community quickly
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would be celebrated in New Zealand on 21 March each year. The first awards were in 2001. There are reviews of speeches in 2007, 2008, and 2009. National coverage of events with the police was affirmed in 2008. In addition to national-scale events various localities have had local competitions – an
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As the Baháʼí community has grown in size and complexity it has also run into controversies and survived. In the 1980s there was a controversy about the status of women not being electable to the Universal House of Justice. In 1989 there was a controversy over the burial of a Māori Baháʼí, Pakaka
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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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which also covers the Cook Islands, American Samoa, and Adelaide, Australia. There has also been an independent documentary by a non-Baháʼí New Zealander exploring the religion in 2007. In 2011 Baháʼís participated in the community memorial for those who had died in the
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spoke at a conference in New Zealand in 2000, noting that the Universal House of Justice had received letters "written in distasteful language" from New Zealand – he encouraged systematic education of children, application of a moral life, a serious study of the
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had just arrived from New York via Auckland. Spinney's stay was probably brief as she is known to have been in New York in November 1912 and again in January 1913. Following learning from a Baháʼí first hand Stevenson decided to subscribed to
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was in 1846 continuous contact began around 1904 when one individual after another came in contact with Baháʼís and some of them published articles in print media in New Zealand as early as 1908. The first Baháʼí in the
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with three delegates from Auckland and two each from Devonport, New Plymouth and Wellington. This convention elected the first National Spiritual Assembly of New Zealand. In 1958 Hand of the Cause of God,
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and married a Māori) when she found this kind of marriage highly accepted among Baháʼís. The members of the National Assembly, who participated in the convention for the first election of the
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from New Zealand when Nora Lee moved to Fiji from 1924 to about 1930. In 1925 Stevenson left with two other New Zealand converts as well as a contingent from Australia for a year-long trip on
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published edition of 30 December 1908 about the religion. Other articles followed in 1909, 1911, and 1913. It is also known that letters were exchanged in 1910 between a Mildred Burdon of
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with a project to honour the memory of Hedi Moani, an Iranian-born Baháʼí who worked to promote positive race relations. Discussions took place over many months and on 10 December 1998 (
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has produced a lists of New Zealand Baháʼí artists, reviews of the shows and articles published dealing with New Zealand. The national assembly posted profiles of some Baháʼís in 2011.
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Following this initial mention of incidents related to the religion there were several contacts between New Zealanders and Baháʼís at the beginning of the 20th century. New Zealander
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while continuing to be involved with documentaries and projects associated with the Baháʼí Faith through individual initiative or commissioned as well as his own ongoing project –
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Beyond controversies, the Baháʼís in New Zealand have broadened their interests both through individual initiatives and collective action. In 1991 an assembly was elected in the
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in 1957. By 1963 there were four Assemblies, and 18 localities with smaller groups of Baháʼís. The 2018 census reports about 2925 Baháʼís in some 45 local assemblies though the
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The first mention of events related to the history of the religion was a report in a Wellington newspaper in July 1846. These were reprints of an 1845 article in the London
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descent to accept the Baháʼí Faith was Albert White, who was one quarter Māori. In 1949 the first Persian Baháʼí pioneer, Manoochehr Alaʼi, arrived as a student at
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Liner Notes – This Bio Was approved by Russell Garcia and Gina Garcia in connection to their collaboration on Charmed Life: Shaynee Rainbolt SINGS Russell Garcia
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grew, including Stevenson's sisters Amy and Lilias. The community tried to form an Assembly without properly following procedure in 1923 or 1924. In 1924
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example was the observance in Whangārei and Lower Hutt in 2009. In 2012 then 13-year-old Rima Shenoy submitted a video that won first place in the
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An address given at the fiftieth anniversary celebrations of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of New Zealand, on 28 April 2007. By
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was begun publishing for New Zealand and Australia during their voyage out of Auckland (transferred publishing to Adelaide Australia in 1931.)
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Momen, Moojan (August 2008). "Millennialism and Violence: The Attempted Assassination of Nasir al-Din Shah of Iran by the Babis in 1852".
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was Dorothea Spinney who had just arrived from New York in Auckland in 1912. Shortly thereafter there were two converts about 1913 –
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Sheryl Davis works for a charitable trust focused on promoting economic development and tourism in the northern part of the country.
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of the country was attempted in 1923 or 1924 and then succeeded in 1926. The Baháʼís of New Zealand elected their first independent
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and was written on 11 April 1916, but was delayed in being presented in the United States until 1919 because of disruptions from
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Spiritual Experiences and Environmentalism of Recreational Users in the Marine Environment: New Zealand Surfers and Scuba Divers
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in Iran who were allowed to settle in New Zealand. Between 1987 and 1989, a further 142 Iranian Baháʼís settled in New Zealand.
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and is a composer who has worked with major Hollywood artists and producers. Garcia and his wife Gina have been members of the
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the Hands of the Cause updated and published a kind of census of the religion. At that time there were four assemblies -
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Outposts of A World Religion by a Baha'i Traveler; Journeys Taken In 1933-1934-1935, Accompanied by Edward R. Mathews
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who first heard of the religion in 1911 and by her own testimony was a Baháʼí in 1913. After ʻAbdu'l-Bahá wrote the
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and talked with elders and four years later, when Hand of the Cause of God, Dr Muhajir visited, Ephraim Te Paa, a
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Tawhai. Though the National Assembly had consulted with Tawhai's wife about burial, Pakaka's tribal family, the
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Ross, Margaret J. 1979. "Some Aspects of the Baháʼí Faith in New Zealand." M.A. Thesis. University of Auckland
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Whoever converted first, there was at least one Baháʼí in New Zealand in 1912 and more shortly thereafter.
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was a writer of semi-autobiographical comic novels who travelled widely and became a Baháʼí about 1982.
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Messages to the Antipodes:Communications from Shoghi Effendi to the Baháʼí Communities of Australasia
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Messages to the Antipodes:Communications from Shoghi Effendi to the Baháʼí Communities of Australasia
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had met ʻAbdu'l-Bahá in London in 1911 and in 1912 moved to New Zealand where he helped found the
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Report of the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Committee, New Zealand House of Representatives
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which strongly affected New Zealand and beyond. These tablets were translated and presented by
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In 1853 there was an event with caused great suffering on Babís ( who Baháʼís hold as a direct
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since 1955. In 1966 they set sail and ended up in the south Pacific when some musicians from
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dated 20 October 1983 was released. Baháʼís were urged to seek out ways, compatible with the
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in London in 1911 and moved to New Zealand in 1912 and is considered a Baháʼí by 1914 and
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The Attempted Assassination of Nasir al Din Shah in 1852: Millennialism and Violence
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Heather Simpson is a District Court judge, enrolled in the Baháʼí community in 1983.
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Official website of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of New Zealand
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Pax Assadi - Comedian. Star of the TV comedy, drama seriers "Raised by Refugees".
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see for example Greg Zemke-Smith who both works in government and is a Baháʼí –
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There isn't a definite date Felkin is considered a Baha'i except before 1914 –
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which mentions New Zealand the community grew quickly so that the first Baháʼí
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where they stayed some 19 days and then visited with the community of the
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National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of the United States (1977).
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has produced an independent serious documentary exploring the religion:
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Baháʼí World Centre, Murray served as Deputy Secretary General of the
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in 1916–1917; these letters were compiled together in the book titled
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and eventually won an Emmy in 1974, for an episode in the series
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The Baháʼí Community of the Kapiti Coast District of New Zealand
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Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (26 October 2001).
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While the first mention of events related to the history of the
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Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions
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National Spiritual Assembly of New Zealand (6 October 1989).
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Letters from the Universal House of Justice, unpublished
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Hassall, Graham. 'Ala'í, Sitarih; Daws, Colleen (eds.).
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Author: Shoghi Effendi, Source: Australia, 1971 reprint.
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The Bahá´í Association For the Arts and its publication
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Since its inception the religion has had involvement in
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which relied on Muslim reactions to the new religion.
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for the Solomon Islands. In 1948 the first person of
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Index

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Baháʼí Faith

Baháʼu'lláh
The Báb
ʻAbdu'l-Bahá
Teachings
Unity of God
Unity of humanity
Unity of religion
Laws
Prayer
Calendar
Nineteen Day Feast
Kitáb-i-Aqdas
Kitáb-i-Íqán
The Hidden Words
Some Answered Questions
Other Texts
Covenant of Baháʼu'lláh
Administrative Order
The Guardianship
Universal House of Justice
Spiritual Assemblies
Baháʼí history
Timeline
Bábism
Persecution
Shoghi Effendi
Hands of the Cause

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