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1944 Nov (mid) 194- |
The publication of God Passes By, a survey of the history of the first century of the Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths by Shoghi Effendi. [BBRSM137; CB308; PG217-218; GPBXI; Collins5.62]
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* Shoghi Effendi (chronology); God Passes By (book); * Shoghi Effendi, Writings of; Gifts; * Publications; * Shoghi Effendi, Basic timeline; - Basic timeline, Expanded; Shoghi Effendi, Works of; - Historical overviews by Central Figures or BWC; * Bahá'í World Centre | |
The passing of John Stearns, pioneer to Quito while in Lima, Peru for medical treatment. He was buried in the British Cemetary. [BW10p539-540; Heroes of God: History of the Bahá'í Faith in Ecuador, 1940-1979 p11] | In Memoriam; John Stearns; Lima, Peru; Peru | ||
1944 Nov 194- |
Shoghi Effendi sent the cable below to the Bahá'í world: "Monib Shahid, grandson of both `Abdu'l-Bahá and the King of Martyrs, married according to the Moslem rites the daughter of a political exile who is nephew of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. This treacherous act of alliance with enemies of the Faith merits condemnation of entire Bahá'í world." [Bahá'í News, December, 1944 No. 172] | Covenant-breaking; Munib Shahid; Haifa, Israel | |
1944 Nov 194- |
The Local Spiritual Assembly of Bogotá, Colombia, was disbanded.
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Local Spiritual Assembly; Bogota, Colombia; Colombia | |
1944 after Aug 194- |
Following the murder of Bahá'ís at Sháhrúd, Iran, and the widespread publicity on the outcome of the trial, there was an upsurge in persecution of Bahá'ís throughout Iran. [BW18p389]
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Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Destruction; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Iran; Ábádih, Iran; Bandar-Jaz, Iran; Bandar Shah, Iran; Bushrúyih, Iran; Faran, Iran; Kashan, Iran; Nain, Iran; Gulpaygan, Iran; Zabul, Iran; Bujnurd, Iran; Gunabad, Iran; Tabas, Iran; Mahmudabad, Iran; Miyan-du-ab, Iran; Rafsanjan, Iran; Sangesar, Iran; Sirjan, Iran; Qasr-i-Shirin, Iran | |
1944 8 Aug 194- |
Three Bahá'ís were murdered in Sháhrúd, Iran, after three weeks of anti-Bahá'í agitation. Many Bahá'í houses were attacked and looted. [BW18:389]
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Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Deaths; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution, Court cases; - Persecution; Human rights; Court cases; Shahrud, Iran; Iran | |
1944 23 May 194- |
Shoghi Effendi unveiled the model of the Shrine of the Báb at the centenary celebration of the Declaration of the Báb in Haifa. [BBD210; BW10:154, 157; DH140; GBF104; PP239–40; UD166]
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Báb, Shrine of; Báb, Declaration of; Centenaries; Models; * Shoghi Effendi (chronology); * Shoghi Effendi, Basic timeline; - Basic timeline, Expanded; Shoghi Effendi, Works of; * Bahá'í World Centre; Mount Carmel; Haifa, Israel | |
1944 22–23 May 194- |
The Centenary of the Declaration of the Báb was commemorated in the Holy Land. [BW10:150]
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Centenaries; Báb, Declaration of; Haifa, Israel | |
1944 22–23 May 194- |
The Centenary of the Declaration of the Báb was celebrated at the House of the Báb in Shíráz. [BW10:181]
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Báb, Declaration of; Báb, House of (Shiraz); Conventions, National; NSA; Centenaries; Shíráz, Iran; Iran | |
1944 22 May 194- |
Centenary of the Declaration of the Báb.
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Centenaries; Báb, Declaration of; Formative Age; Ages and Epochs; - Worldwide | |
1944 19–25 May 194- |
An international celebration of the Centenary of the founding of the Faith was held at the House of Worship in Wilmette.
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Centenaries; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Wilmette; Wilmette, IL; United States (USA) | |
1944 12 May 194- |
Bahá'ís were persecuted at Ábádih, Iran. The Bahá'í centre was attacked by a mob of four thousand, the building was looted and destroyed and several Bahá'ís badly beaten. [BW18p389]
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Persecution, Iran; - Persecution, Destruction; - Persecution; - Persecution, Mobs; Haziratul-Quds (Bahá'í centres); Ábádih, Iran; Iran | |
1944 2 May 194- |
The German government held a public trial of some of the jailed Bahá'í leaders in Darmstadt. Dr. Hermann Grossmann was allowed to testify as a witness for the defense about the non-political nature of the Bahá'í Faith and the attitude of the trial had been pre-ordained. The government found the Bahá'ís guilty, levied large fines and banned all Bahá'í institutions ordering that they be immediately disbanded. [Bahá'í Teachings; German Bahá'í website archives] | Persecution, Germany; Hermann Grossmann; Darmstadt, Germany; Germany | |
1944 May 194- |
The first All-American Bahá'í Convention was held. Those elected to the National Spiritual Assembly were: George 0. Latimer, (Chair), Allen McDaniel, (Vice), Horace Holley, (Sec'y), Louis Gregory, (Recording Sec'y), Roy Wilhelm, (Treas), Dorothy Baker, Amelia Collins, Philip Sprague, and Leroy Ioas. [BW No 169 September 1944 p6]
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Conventions, National; Conventions, District; First conventions; Hilda Yen; North America; United States (USA) | first All-American Bahá’í Convention |
1944 May 194- |
The British at their national convention, decided to ask the Guardian for their own Six Year Plan. [UDXVI]
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Conventions, National; - Teaching Plans, National; Firsts, other; LSA; United Kingdom; Ireland; British Isles | first British collective enterprise |
1944 Ridván 194- |
The thirty-sixth National Convention was held in Wilmette and hosted representatives of the Bahá'í communities of Central and South America. Those elected to serve the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States and Canada were: George O. Latimer (Chairman), Allen B. McDaniel (Vice), Horace Holley (Secretary), Louis G. Gregory (Recording Secretary), Roy C. Wilhelm (Treasurer), Dorothy Baker. Amelia E. Collins, Philip G. Sprague, Leroy Ioas. The Assembly appointed Siegfried Schopflocher to serve as the Treasurer of the Canadian Bahá'í Fund. [BN No 169 July 1944 p2; BN No285 Nov 1954 p3-4] |
Conventions, National; George Latimer; Allen McDaniel; Horace Holley; Louis G. Gregory; Roy C. Wilhelm; Dorothy Baker; Amelia Collins; Philip G. Sprague; Leroy Ioas; Siegfried Schopflocher; North America; United States (USA); Canada | |
1944 Ridván 194- |
The first local spiritual assembly in Peru was established in Lima. [Heroes of God: History of the Bahá'í Faith in Ecuador, 1940-1979 p10] | Local Spiritual Assembly; Lima, Peru | first Local Spiritual Assembly in Peru |
1944 Ridván 194- |
The first local spiritual assembly in Honduras was established in Tegucigalpa. | Local Spiritual Assembly; Tegucigalpa, Honduras | first Local Spiritual Assembly in Honduras |
1944 Ridván 194- |
The first local spiritual assembly in Colombia was established in Bogotá. | Local Spiritual Assembly; Bogota, Colombia | first Local Spiritual Assembly in Colombia |
1944 Ridván 194- |
The first local spiritual assembly in Puerto Rico was established in San Juan. | Local Spiritual Assembly; San Juan, Puerto Rico | first Local Spiritual Assembly in Puerto Rico |
1944 Ridván 194- |
The first local spiritual assembly in Jamaica was established in Kingston. | Local Spiritual Assembly; Kingston, ON | first Local Spiritual Assembly in Jamaica |
1944 Ridván 194- |
The Bahá'ís of the British Isles launched a Six Year Plan, the British Six Year Plan (1944-1950). [Ruhi 8.2 p46]
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- Teaching Plans; British Six Year Plan; United Kingdom; British Isles | |
1944 20 Apr 194- |
The end of the first Seven Year Plan. Some of the accomplishments of the plan were:
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Seven Year Plan | |
1944 Apr 194- |
The first Bahá'í shortwave radio broadcast was beamed from New York towards South America. [BW9:44–5]
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Bahá'í Radio; Firsts, other; New York, USA; United States (USA) | first Bahá’í shortwave radio broadcast |
1944 21 Mar 194- |
On the occasion of the Centenary of the Declaration of the Báb, the Guardian provided two gifts to the Bahá'í world. To the Western believers it was God Passes By, and to the friends in the East, The Tablet of Naw-Rúz 101. Both dealt with the history of the Cause in the course of the century, a history of persecution and oppression, a history of suffering and victory, a history of joy and love, a history of the growth of the Cause of God, of its rise and of its descent into a wave-tossed sea of happenings, of its evolution from an embryonic state to its triumphant march towards its culminating point determining the destiny of man.
The Tablet of Naw-Rúz 101 has been named Lawh-i-Qarn (Tablet of the Centennial). It was unveiled in a solemn pilgrimage ceremony at the House of the Báb in the presence of the 91 delegates exactly one hundred years after the visit of Mullá Husayn. A partial English translation of this Persian document can be found in Tablet of the Centennial by Shoghi Effendi translated by Khazeh Fananapazir. This paper also makes reference to the article below. Dr Àlí Muhammad Varqa's article, Le Style persan du Gardien, was presented at the Association for Bahá'í Studies 9th Annual Conference in Ottawa in 1984 and can be found in the book of the proceedings of that conference, The Vision of Shoghi Effendi p209. In his paper he quotes from a number of Tablets to describe the style of Shoghi Effendi's writing in Persian, one of them is the Tablet of the Centennial. On 28 November 2023 the Universal House of Justice, in a message to the Bahá'ís of the world, provided a review of the previous 100 years of the Formative Age. |
Lawh-i-Qarn (Tablet of the Centennial); * Shoghi Effendi, Writings of; Centenaries; - Historical overviews by Central Figures or BWC; Shíráz, Iran; Iran | |
1944 22 Jan 194- |
Prior to mailing the manuscript to Horace Holley, Shoghi Effendi made the last corrections of the last installment of God Passes By. At that time the book had the working title of "Prospect and Retrospect". This marked the culmination of approximately two years of almost continuous work. [PP222] | God Passes By (book); * Bahá'í World Centre | |
1944 Jan 194- |
A Memorial to Keith Ransom-Kehler was erected in Isfahan to commemorate her work in Iran. She was the second American Bahá'í to die in Iran while serving the Cause. See picture. [BN No 169 Jul 1944 p8 | Keith Ransom-Kehler; In Memoriam; Isfahan, Iran; Iran | |
1944 (In the year) 194- |
As early as 1944 Mr. Rajab–Ali Vahdat, an agronomist of Iranian origin was the first Bahá'í to settle in what is now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the company of his wife of Belgian nationality. They settled in the city of Kabongo, then in the city of Kamina in what is now Upper Katanga. [bahai.org] | Rajab-`Alí Vahdat; Kabongo, Democratic Republic of Congo; Kamina, Democratic Republic of Congo | first pioneer to settle in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
1944 (In the Year) 194- |
The publication of The Divine Art of Living: Selections from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, the Báb, and 'Abdu'l-Bahá by the Chicago Publishing Committee. It was compiled by Mabel Hyde Paine. The book saw four revisions and up until 2006 and is still being reprinted. [Collins4.114 - 4.117]
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Divine Art of Living (book); Mabel Hyde Paine; Marian Crist Lippitt; Mary Francis Baral; Chicago, IL | |
1944 (In the year) 194- |
The first Bahá'ís arrived in the Mariana Islands.
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Joseph F. Peter; Joseph Tierno; Saipan, Mariana Islands | first Bahá’ís in Mariana Islands |
1944 (In the year) 194- |
The National Spiritual Assembly of Australia was incorporated. | National Spiritual Assembly, incorporation; Australia | |
1944 (In the year) 194- |
A Bahá'í committee in Tihrán identified the House of Bahá'u'lláh in the city and purchased it. | House of Bahá'u'lláh (Tihran); Purchases and exchanges; Tehran, Iran; Iran | |
1944 (In the year) 194- |
Hand of the Cause Collis Featherstone and his wife, Madge, were introduced to the Bahá'í Faith by Bertha and Joe Dobbins in Adelaide, Australia. They became Bahá'ís later in the year. | Collis Featherstone; Madge Featherstone; Bertha Dobbins; Joe Dobbins; Adelaide, Australia; Australia | |
1944 (In the year) 194- |
Gerardo Vega, of Costa Rica, was the first Latin-American native to pioneer when he began work in Panama. [BN No 171 November 1944 p4-5] | Pioneer; Gerardo Vega; Costa Rica; Panama | Gerardo Vega, of Costa Rica, was the first Latin-American native to pioneer when he began work in Panama. |
1944 (In the year) 194- |
In Iran a Central Women's Progress Committee was formed to organize women's activities throughout the country. Some of the fundamental tasks accomplished by this committee and its supportive bodies in various localities included holding the first convention of Anjoman-e Tarraqī-e Neswān (Society for the Advancement of Women) in 1947 in Tehran following which local and regional conferences, educational gatherings, and regular classes for illiterate women were conducted. As a result of continued effort and educational training, particularly during the Four Year Plan (1946-1950) the Bahá'í Persian women were enabled to acquire sufficient self-confidence and social recognition to fill elective and appointive offices in the community. [BW11p563; BW12p65; BAHAISM v. The Bahai Community in Iran by V. Rafati] | Central Womens Progress Committee; Society for the Advancement of Women; Women; Social and economic development; Iran |
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