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The Macau Bahá'í Community
in the Early Years

Compiled by Barbara R. Sims

1991





        Approved by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Macau

        © Copyright 1991 by Barbara R. Sims
        Digital text © 1999 by Barbara R. Sims and the Bahá'í Academics Resource Library
        All rights reserved

        Typeset using SGML by Uniscope Inc., Tokyo


This is dedicated to the early Bahá'ís of the Chinese race




                       Contents

          Dedication

          Epigraph

     1.   The Ten Year Crusade, 1953 — 1963......................1

     2.   Macau..................................................2

     3.   Early Bahá'í History...................................3

     4.   The First Believers of Macau...........................8
               Four Naw Rúz Celebrations........................10

     5.   More About the Early Believers........................14
               Mr. Harry Yim....................................14
               Mr. John Chang...................................18
               Mrs. Mary Shia...................................19

     6.   More About the 1950s..................................19

     7.   John Chang Fulfills a Goal of the Ten Year Crusade....36

     8.   From the 1960s........................................38

     9.   Activities in the Late 1960s..........................46

     10.  Advances in the 1970s.................................48

     11.  Hands of the Cause Who Have Visited Macau.............52

     12.  Macau Comes Under the Jurisdiction of the National
          Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Hong Kong........60

     13.  The First National Spiritual Assembly of the
          Bahá'ís of Macau......................................61

          Names.................................................65

          Afterword.............................................67
     
          


Chapter 1


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