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| 1888 (In the year) |
Jamál Effendi, accompanied by Hájí Faraju'lláh-i-Tafrishí, embarked on a long journey to the East visiting Burma, Java (Indonesia), Siam (Thailand), Singapore, Kashmir, Tibet, Yarqand, Khuqand in Chinese Turkistan, and Afghanistan. [EB123–4; PH22] |
Myanmar (Burma); Java; Indonesia; Siam (Thailand); Thailand; Singapore; Kashmir; India; Tibet; Yarqand; Khuqand; Chinese Turkistan; China; Afghanistan |
Jamal Effendi; Haji Farajullah-i-Tafrishi |
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| 1916 summer |
Mr Vasily Eroshenko, a young blind Russian, visited Thailand, the first Bahá'í to do so. |
Thailand |
First travel teachers and pioneers |
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| 1954 15 Feb |
Charles Duncan (a musician and composer) and Harry Clark, both Americans, arrived in Brunei from Kota Kinabalu (Jesselton) in Sabah, where they had been waiting for several weeks, and were named Knights of Bahá’u’lláh. [BW13:451; PH63]
Later he pioneered to Thailand where he learned the language. See Servants of the Glory page 19 |
Brunei; Thailand |
Knights of Bahaullah; Charles Duncan; Harry Clark |
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| 1964 Ridván |
The National Spiritual Assembly of Thailand was formed with its seat in Bangkok and having jurisdiction over the Bahá'ís of Laos. [BW14p99] |
Bangkok; Thailand; Laos |
National Spiritual Assembly, formation |
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| 1974 (In the year) |
Owing to difficulties within the Bahá’í community, the National Spiritual Assembly of Thailand was disbanded. |
Thailand |
National Spiritual Assembly, formation |
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| 1974 (In the year) |
In Cambodia, political upheaval and a ban on the Bahá’í Faith had scattered its communities and caused some believers to be imprisoned briefly. Dempsey and Adrienne Morgan returned in 1971 and discreetly helped facilitate communication among Bahá’ís. Once the ban was lifted in 1974, he assisted in re-formation of several Local Spiritual Assemblies and instituted training classes. The foundation built by the national Bahá’í community helped it endure the devastating upheavals of subsequent years.
[The American Bahá'í, Servants of the Glory page 48]
"All effective contact with the Cambodian Bahá’ís was lost during the period of Khmer Rouge rule (1975-79), and apart from contact with Bahá’ís subsequently found in refugee camps in Thailand, the community had to be completely re-established in the 1980s." [Religious Freedom in the Asia Pacific: The Experience of the Bahá'í Community p87 by Graham Hassall]
“With the conclusion of warfare and the establishment of the new regime all Bahá’í activity in Cambodia is at a standstill, as far as can be ascertained. For a time the national Teaching Committee secretary wrote of continuing teaching activity among the believers and enquirers but there are now no available channels of communication and there has been no recent news of the fate of the Khmer Bahá’ís”. [BW16 p.138] |
Cambodia; Thailand |
Dempsey Morgan; Adrienne Morgan; Ban; Persecution, Cambodia |
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| 1975 Ridván |
The first local spiritual assembly to be elected among the Meo tribes, Laotian refugees in northern Thailand, was formed. [BW16:262] |
Thailand |
Local Spiritual Assembly |
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| 1977 (In the year) |
The National Spiritual Assembly of Thailand re-formed. |
Thailand |
National Spiritual Assembly, formation |
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| 1985 (In the year) |
A regional office of the Bahá’í International Community affiliated with the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) was established in Bangkok. [BW19:161–2] |
Bangkok; Thailand |
Bahai International Community; Social and economic development |
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| 1986 6 Aug |
The Indo-Chinese Refugee Committee of Thailand estimates that five to six thousand people are Bahá’ís in the refugee camps on the Thai border. [BINS158:17] |
Thailand |
Indo-Chinese Refugee Committee |
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| 1990 (In the year) |
The Bahá'í International Community was invited to participate in the World Conference on Education for All in Thailand because of its involvement in the work of the Task Force for Literacy under the aegis of UNESCO. [AWH75] |
Thailand |
Bahai International Community; Education; Literacy; UNESCO |
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| 1994 Feb 17 – 20 |
The first Bahá'í ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) Forum was held in Bangkok. [BINS312:6] |
Bangkok; Thailand |
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from the Main Catalogue
- Encyclopaedia Iranica: Selected articles related to Persian culture, religion, philosophy and history, by Encyclopaedia Iranica, in Encyclopaedia Iranica (1982-2023). Sorted, categorized collection of links to over 170 articles. [about]
- Jamál Effendi and the early history of the Bahá'í Faith in South Asia, by Moojan Momen, in Bahá'í Studies Review, 9 (1999). Includes maps on Jamal Effendi's journeys in India, and journeys in Southeast Asia. [about]
- Meta-Narrative of Peasant Religious Conversion, The: A Case Study of the Baha'i Community In Thailand, by Amanah Nurish, in En Arche: Indonesian Journal of Inter-Religious Studies, 4:1 (2015). A study of why the peasant peoples of Yasothon, Thailand have turned to the Bahá'í Faith instead of the more common Buddhism; how local political movements and resistance develop among the poor working-class in agricultural areas. [about]
- Ridván 1996 (Four Year Plan) - To the Followers of Bahá'u'lláh in Cambodia, Hong Kong, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Macau, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam: Bahá'í Era 153, by Universal House of Justice (1996). Country-specific portion of the annual message to the Bahá'ís of the world: East Asia. [about]
- Servants of the Glory: A Chronicle of Forty Years of Pioneering, by Adrienne Morgan and Dempsey Morgan (2017). Memoirs of a black couple from the United States who lived and spread the Bahá’í Faith in across parts of east Asia and Africa in the 1950s-1980s. Text by Dempsey Morgan, poems by Adrienne Morgan. Link to document offsite. [about]
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