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2003 18 Mar The President of India, Abdul Kalam, visited the Bahá'í House of Worship in New Delhi, the first official visit there by an Indian Head of State since the Temple was opened in December 1986. [BWNS204] `Abdu'l Kalam; Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, Delhi; Lotus temple, New Delhi; Prominent visitors; - Presidents; Firsts, other; Bahá'í World News Service (BWNS); New Delhi, India; India First visit to the Bahá'í House of Worship in New Delhi by an Indian head of state.
2003 11 Mar Bani Dugal Gujral was appointed Principal Representative of the Bahá'í International Community to the United Nations.
  • Ms. Dugal Gujral had been serving as interim Principal Representative since the resignation of Techeste Ahderom in 2001.
  • Ms. Dugal Gujral came to the Bahá'í International Community in 1994 and served as Director of the Community's Office for the Advancement of Women. A native of India, where she practiced law before coming to the United States, Ms. Dugal Gujral holds a Master's degree in Environmental Law from Pace University School of Law in New York. [One Country Vol.14 Issue4]
    		•  Bani Dugal Gujral; Bahá'í International Community; Women; Techeste Ahderom; United Nations; New York, USA; USA
    2003 3 Mar The passing of Knight of Bahá'u'lláh Una Dean, née Townshend, in Edmonton, Canada. Una lived a full life of Bahá'í service. In 1946 she was the first Bahá'í in Dublin and was later a member of the first spiritual assembly. She also helped to form the first spiritual assembly in Liverpool. In October 1953 she was the first Bahá'i in Malta, a goal of the Ten Year Crusade. In 1954 she returned to Ireland to tend to her ailing father and to assist him in writing Christ and Bahá'u'lláh. After his passing in 1957 she moved to America, met and married her husband, Dick Dean, and moved to Edmonton where she served on the Local Assembly until 1987. [BW02-03p269] Una Dean; Una Townshend; - Knights of Bahá'u'lláh; Births and deaths; In Memoriam; Edmonton, AB; Alberta, Canada; Canada; Malta; Ireland; Liverpool, England; Dublin, Ireland First Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Dublin.

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