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1968 (Late in the year) | Two Chilean Bahá'ís, Aníbal Soto, a telegraph operator in the Chilean Navy and his wife, Norma Soto, were posted to a Chilean base in Antarctica. | Pioneering; Antarctica | ||
1968 10 Dec | The Louis G. Gregory Award for Service to Humanity was established by the National Spiritual Assembly in 1968. The first recipients, honoured at a banquet in the Washington Hilton and sponsored by the North American Bahá'í Office for Human Rights (NABOHR, were the Xerox Corporation and Clark M. Eichelberger.
Mr. Eichelberger, Chairman of the Commission to Study the Organization of Peace, will receive the award for his accomplishments in the field of human rights over a period of many years. He was a consultant to the League of Nations Secretariat and was a member of a committee to prepare the first U.S. working draft of the United Nations Charter. He was a consultant to the U.S. delegation to the 1945 Conference in San Francisco to organize the United Nations. His most recent effort was overseeing the drafting and presentation of a special report on The United Nations and Human Rights. He is the author of four books on the U.N. The Xerox Corporation was selected because of its sponsorship of the television series Of Black America and its other outstanding efforts in behalf of human rights. [Bahá'í National Review Issue 12 December 1968 p3; Bahá'í National Review Issue 14 February 1969 p10] |
Race amity; Louis G. Gregory Award for Service to Humanity; Louis G. Gregory; Washington, DC, USA | ||
1968 Dec | George Howard arrived on Union Island, the first person to take the Bahá'í Faith to the Grenadine Islands. | George Howard; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | first Bahá’í teacher to Grenadine Islands | |
1968 7 Nov | Sixteen Persian Bahá'ís in Algeria were expelled from the country and their properties confiscated; native Algerian Bahá'ís were put under restrictions and five were exiled to the Sahara and the eastern mountain regions. [BW15:172; BWIM114]
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Persecution, Algeria; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution, Court cases; - Persecution; Court cases; Human Rights; Algeria | ||
1968 4 Nov | Following the participation of Algerian Bahá'ís in the first Oceanic Conference in Palermo, Sicily, and subsequent international news coverage, foreign Bahá'ís in Algeria were summoned by the police and interrogated. [BW15:172] | Persecution, Algeria; - Persecution, Other; - Persecution; Algeria | ||
1968 Nov | Mohammed Brimer (Mohammed Braimah Belem), the first person to become a Bahá'í in Upper Volta, enrolled. | Mohammed Brimer; Upper Volta, Burkina Faso | first Bahá’í in Upper Volta | |
1968 Nov | Fereidun Khazrai arrived in Romanian and was designated a Knight of Bahá'u'lláh. [Bahaipedia] | Knight of Bahá'u'lláh; Fereidun Khazrai; Romania | ||
1968 24 Oct | The Moroccan Bahá'í sentenced to three years' imprisonment in January 1968 appelled and his sentence was extended to four years. [BW15:172]
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Persecution, Morocco; - Persecution, Court cases; - Persecution; Court cases; Human Rights; Morocco | ||
1968 9 Oct | The widowed mother of seven children was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in Morocco for refusing to deny her faith. [BW15:172]
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Persecution, Morocco; - Persecution, Arrests; - Persecution, Court cases; - Persecution; Court cases; Human Rights; Morocco | ||
1968 9 Oct | The Universal House of Justice addressed its second letter to Bahá'í Youth. [BW15:324; WG152–4; 9 October 1968] | Universal House of Justice; Youth; - Bahá'í World Centre | ||
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