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Tag "Guatemala"

tag name: Guatemala type: Geographic locations
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6 results from the Chronology

1 result from the Chronology Canada

from the Chronology (6 results; collapse)

  1. 1936-00-01 — Mr E. R. and Mrs Loulie Mathews arrived in Guatemala, the first Bahá'í teachers to visit the country.
  2. 1939-08-27 — The first Bahá'í resident in Guatemala, Gerrard Sluter-Schlutius, arrived in the country from Toronto. [OBCC228]
  3. 1945-04-21 — Formation of first Local Assembly: Guatemala City, [The Beginnings of the Bahá'í Faith in Latin America: Some Remembrances by Artemus Lamb]
  4. 1957-04-21
      The Regional Spiritual Assembly of Mexico and the Republics of Central America was formed at Panama City, Panama. [BW13:257]
    • The countries involved were: Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico.
  5. 1960-00-04
      The first Maya-Quiche to become a Bahá'í in Guatemala, Filomena Cajas de Velasquez, a tourist guide, enrolled.
    • Later she was the first Guatemalan woman to serve on the national spiritual assembly.
  6. 1961-04-21 — The National Spiritual Assembly of Guatemala was formed with Hand of the Cause William Sears in attendance. Prior they had been part of Regional Spiritual Assembly of Mexico and the Republics of Central America. [BW13:258]

    Upon forming the Assembly was made responsible for administrating the Bahá'í community of British Honduras although there were no Bahá'ís in British Honduras at the time. British Honduras remained under its jurisdiction until forming its own National Spiritual Assembly in 1967. [BN No364 July 1961 p2]

from the Chronology of Canada (1 result)

  1. 1939-08-27 — Gerrard Sluter-Schlutius— German-born, former U-boat captain, enrolled in November of 1932 and was a member of the Montreal Bahá'í youth group. He moved to Toronto in March 1935 and to Guatemala in 1939 as the second overseas pioneer. [OBCC97, 104-105]

    He also pioneered to Honduras and later to Colombia. In the middle of 1940's Gerrard Sluter was removed from the rolls by the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Shoghi Effendi later declared him a Covenant-breaker for his persistent political involvement. Later Sluter appealed to the judicial courts of Colombia to demand the cancellation of the legal status of the Local Spiritual Assembly of Bogota. He failed in all his lawsuits against the Assembly. [BNVol2p315]. Note: This reference is not correct and is currently under investigation.

    The office of the U.S. Archives provided the following information:

      ..., During 1946 and 1947 he wrote copiously to the U.S. National Assembly and to the Inter-America Teaching Committee, making diffuse accusations against those bodies and against several Bahá’ís in Colombia.... The last message we found from the US National Assembly to Sluter is dated January 10, 1947; it counseled him to moderate his actions and referred to an earlier decision by the Bogota Assembly... The correspondence with Sluter in both the NSA and Inter-America Teaching Committee files ends in 1947. [from an email from Edward Sevcik, Archivist, 2025 May]
 
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