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| 1990 (In the year) |
The United Nations International Literacy Year. [VV108] |
United Nations; Literacy |
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| 1990 - 1992 |
The accelerating growth of the Bahá'í communities and the drastically changing conditions in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc impelled the Universal House of Justice to call for a subsidiary Two Year Teaching Plan to run from Riḍván 1990 to Riḍván 1992, with greatly increased goals for all these lands. [BW20p199] |
Two Year Teaching Plan; - Teaching Plans; Soviet Union |
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| 1990 (In the year) |
The Bádi Foundation was established in Macao through an initial endowment in honour of Badi'u'llah Farid and Shidrokh Amirkia Bagha, who were outstanding examples of dedication, service and self-sacrifice for the well-being of humankind. The fundamental purpose animating the Bádi Foundation has always been to contribute, however modestly, to the spiritual and material progress of China. [Website]
Its projects include:
- Early Childhood Education:
The award winning Hidden Gems Programme, implemented by educational organizations across Asia, includes content in the areas of mathematics, science, and character development for children aged 3 to 6.
- Junior Youth Program:
Drawing on the talents of a group of youth volunteers and working in partnership with a number of local educational institutions, the Moral Empowerment through Language Programme seeks to release the potential of 12-15 year olds to contribute to the transformation of their communities.
- School of the Nations offers education to over 600 students from kindergarten through high school in Macao. The school offers programmes characterized by academic rigor and an integrated approach to the moral and intellectual development of its students.
- The Centre for Continuing Education at School of the Nations offers a range of educational programmes seeking to promote community well-being. Its aim is to provide quality, innovative learning opportunities to a growing number of people, of all ages and backgrounds.
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Social and Economic Development Organizations; Badi Foundation; Macau; China |
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| 1990 (In the year) |
The National Spiritual Assembly of Taiwan opened a permanent Bahá'í Office of the Environment for Taiwan in Taipei. [BINS221:5] |
Environment; Taipei, Taiwan; Taiwan |
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| 1990 (In the year) |
An Association for Bahá'í Studies was established in Kenya. |
Bahá'í Studies, Associations for; Kenya; - Africa |
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| 1990 (In the year) |
The Italian Association for Bahá'í Studies was established in Rome. [BINS232:5]
It lapsed in 1991 but was re-established in 1992. |
Bahá'í Studies, Associations for; Rome, Italy; Italy; - Europe |
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| 1990 (In the year) |
The first Adam Benke Project was organized by the Bahá'í European Youth Council in Bulgaria.
The first semi-public talks and lectures in Bulgaria were given in restaurants, where people are invited to private meetings.
Eleven people become Bahá'ís.
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European Bahá'í Youth Council; Youth; Firsts, other; Bulgaria |
First Adam Benke Project; first semi-public talks and lectures in Bulgaria |
| 1990 (In the year) |
The Purest Branch Project in Belize resulted in over a thousand people becoming Bahá'ís from the Garifuna population around Dangriga. |
Teaching campaigns; Mass conversion; Belize; Dangriga, Belize |
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| 1990 (In the year) |
Amata Kabua, President of the Marshall Islands, visited the Bahá'í World Centre. [BW94–5:83] |
Amata Kabua; - Presidents; Prominent visitors; Islands; Marshall Islands; Oceania; - Bahá'í World Centre |
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| 1990 (In the year) |
The National Spiritual Assembly of South Africa made a submission for the drafting of a new constitution.
The judge that received it, the President of the South African Law Commission, commented that this document stated the Bahá'ís were the only group whose ideas had a spiritual and moral basis for the constitution. [AWH87-8] |
National Spiritual Assembly; Constitutions (Bahá'í); South Africa |
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| 1990 (In the year) |
The Asian Buddhist Conference for Peace was held in Mongolia.
A representative of the International Bahá'í Community was the only non-Buddhist speaker invited to address a public meeting held in conjunction with the conference. [AWH88] [VV101]
The paper that was delivered was entitled The Common Goal of Universal Peace in Buddhism and the Bahá'í Faith. |
- Buddhism; - International peace conferences; Bahá'í International Community; Interfaith dialogue; Mongolia |
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| 1990 (In the year) |
Pope John Paul II made mention of the Bahá'ís at a reception held in his honour in Burundi. [AWH88] |
Pope John Paul II; - Popes; Burundi |
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| 1990 (In the year) |
With the approval of the Universal House of Justice, the Bahá'í administrative institutions of the eastern and western parts of Germany were re-united. [BINS230:2] |
National Spiritual Assembly of Germany; Germany |
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| 1990 (In the year) |
The Bahá'í International Community, through the Office of the Environment in collaboration with other environmental organizations, re-instituted the annual World Forestry Charter Gathering that had be founded in 1945 by Richard St. Barbe Baker. [AWH75] [VV106] |
Bahá'í International Community; Environment; Richard St. Barbe Baker |
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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] |
Bahá'í International Community; Education; Literacy; UNESCO; Thailand |
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| 1990 (In the year) |
A branch of the Bahá'í International Community's United Nations Office for the Pacific region was opened in Suva, Fiji. [AWH76; VV54] |
Bahá'í International Community; Suva, Fiji; Fiji |
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| 1990 (In the year) |
For the first time a representative of the United Nations was able to officially meet with a representative of the proscribed Bahá'í community in Irán. The report to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights resulted in a resolution being adapted on Irán in a session held in Geneva. [AWH76] |
United Nations Commission on Human Rights; Bahá'í International Community; Iran; Geneva, Switzerland |
first time a representative of United Nations able to officially meet with a representative of proscribed Bahá'í community in Irán |
| 1990 (In the year) |
The formation of the European Bahá'í Business Forum in France with members from 26 countries in Europe and elsewhere. [VV115]
Formed by a group of Bahá'ís active in business and management meeting in Chamonix, France, due to concern about the decline of ethics and values in business.
Forum created to promote the moral and spiritual wisdom and principles of the great religious traditions of the world (sources included Judaism, Hinduism, and Christianity as well as the 19th century revelation of Bahá'u'lláh) such as adherence to the principles of justice, respect, trustworthiness, integrity and unity.
Beginning as an informal network, its membership grew requiring the election of a Governing Board.
Members have attached importance to sharing their broad experience and to contributing to the improvement of management in emerging free-market economies of Central and Eastern Europe. [ebbf]
See The History of EBBF: Twenty-Five Years of Contributing to the Discourse of Ethics in Business by Francois Couillard.
Under advice from the Universal House of Justice, EBBF changed its name from European Bahá'í Business Forum to the less parochial name Ethical Business Building the Future. [The above, pg45]
ebbf website. |
European Bahá'í Business Forum (EBBF); Business; Ethical Business Building the Future (EBBF); Chamonix, France; France; - Europe |
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| 1990 (In the year) |
The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously adopted a resolution calling for the emancipation of the Iranian Bahá'í community and outlined the steps to be taken by the US government towards this end. [AWH76; VV60] |
House of Representatives; USA |
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| 1990 (In the year) |
The Council of Agriculture of the Executive Yuan (Senate) of Taiwan co-sponsored with the National Spiritual Assembly a Bahá'í educational programme on environmental protection. [BINS218:5]
This was the first formal joint effort between the Bahá'ís of Taiwan and the government authorities. |
Agriculture; Environment; Taiwan |
First formal joint effort between Bahá'ís and Taiwan government |
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