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1940 Jul
194-		 Gerrard Sluter, a German with Canadian citizenship and previously a pioneer in Guatemala (1939-1940) and Honduras, arrived in Colombia, the first Bahá'í to settle in the country. [BW8p1036; BW8p1036; BW9p1000; The Beginnings of the Bahá'í Faith in Latin America: Some Remembrances by Artemus Lamb]
  • He later became a Covenant-breaker and caused much difficulty to the Bahá'ís in many South American countries. In response to a query to the U.S. National Bahá'í Archives we receive the following information.
      During 1946 and 1947 he wrote copiously to the U.S. National Assembly and to the Inter-America Teaching Committee, making diffuse accusations against those bodies and against several Bahá’ís in Colombia..... The last message we found from the US National Assembly to Sluter is dated January 10, 1947; it counseled him to moderate his actions and referred to an earlier decision by the Bogota Assembly, ..,. The correspondence with Sluter in both the NSA and Inter-America Teaching Committee files ends in 1947. [email message from Edward Sevcik, Archivist, 2025 May]
    		•  Colombia; Covenant-breaking; Gerrard Sluter-Schlutius first Bahá’í to settle in Colombia
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