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Date 1940-12-00, sorted by date, descending

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1940 Dec
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1940-12-00-03
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Gerald and Vivian MacBeans, a Jamaican couple, and their niece, Miss May Johnson, became the first people to accept the Faith in Haiti. - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Haiti first Bahá'ís in Haiti
1940 Dec
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1940-12-00-01
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Eduardo Gonzales, a university student, accepted the Faith and became the first native Bahá'í of Ecuador. He was accepted as a Bahá'í on the occasion of his 21st birthday on the 15th of October 1943. Eduardo (Les) Gonzalez performed outstanding service for the Cause both as an itinerant teacher abroad and pioneer to Spain and Venezuela. Sadly, in later years he became a Covenant-breaker and had to be ex-communicated.
  • He was not formally registered until his twenty–first birthday on 15 October 1941. [Heroes of God: History of the Bahá'í Faith in Ecuador, 1940-1979 p4; 8; 24]
  • - First believers by background; - Indigenous people; Ecuador; Eduardo Gonzales first native Bahá’í of Ecuador
    1940 Dec
    194-
    1940-12-00-00
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    Luis Carlo Nieto became the first Bahá'í in Colombia.
  • He soon left the Faith and Aura Sanchez, who became a Bahá'í in 1941, is considered the first Colombian believer.
  • - First Bahá'ís by country or area; Colombia first Bahá’í in Colombia
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