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Search for location "Central America"
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| 1938 (In the year) |
William DeForge became the first Bahá’í to visit the Dominican Republic. He made a one-day trip from Puerto Rico. |
Dominican Republic; Central America |
First Bahais by country or area |
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| 1940 1 Aug |
The first four people to become Bahá’ís in Costa Rica accepted the Faith after Gayle Woolson and Amelia Ford from the United States arrived in Puerto Limón on 29 March 1940.
The first to enrol was Raul Contreras, followed by his cousin Guido Contreras, and by José Joaquin Ulloa and then Felipe Madrigal. |
Costa Rica; Central America |
First Bahais by country or area |
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| 1945 20 Oct |
Emeric and Rosemary Sala of St. Lambert, Quebec departed on a four month tour of Central and South America. They visited 19 republics and Mr Sala gave seventy-nine talks. They visited many pioneers and paid homage at the grave of May Maxwell at Quilmes, about one hour from Buenos Aires. [TG93-101] |
Central America; Latin America; St Lambert; Quebec; Canada |
Emeric Sala; Rosemary Sala |
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| 1952 Ridván |
The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Central America launched a One Year Plan (1952-1953). [Ruhi 8.2 p46]
Shoghi Effendi provided the following advice for the aims of the Central American Assembly:
-To establish harmony, love and understanding among the Bahá'ís
-To promote the teaching work
-To win support for the National Bahá'í Fund
-To assure publication of Bahá'í literature in well-translated Spanish editions in cooperation with the National Spiritual Assembly of South America. [BW12p68-69; Shoghi Effendi: Author of Teaching Plans ]
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Central America |
Teaching Plans; Teaching Plans, National |
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| 1952 Ridván |
The National Convention of the Bahá'ís of Central America was scheduled to be held in a prestigious hotel in San Jose, Costa Rica. When a distinguish believer, Mr Matthew Bullock, was not allowed to register at the hotel because of his race, the National Assembly moved the Convention to another venue and registered guests moved to small pensions rather than staying at the hotel. [SDSC65]
Matthew Bullock was one of the early African-American believers in the United States. He became an enrolled believer in 1940 after 15 years of knowledge of the Faith. In 1952 he was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly and along with fellow NSA member Elsie Austin, represented that institution at the first Intercontinental Teaching Conference in Uganda in 1953. [LoS108, SDSC102] |
San Jose; Costa Rica; Central America |
Conventions, National; NSA; Race (general); Matthew Bullock; Elsie Austin |
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| 1957 (In the year) |
Charles Winfield Small, a native of Barbados and the first to become a Bahá’í in the Bahamas, returned to Barbados, the first Bahá’í to settle in the country. |
Barbados; Central America |
First Bahais by country or area |
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| 1965 19 Sep |
Walter Garland and Miss Annie Lourie Williams, the first to become Bahá’ís on Grand Turk Island, enrolled. |
Grand Turk Island; Central America |
First Bahais by country or area |
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from the Main Catalogue
- Aboriginal and Indigenous People, Teaching Among, by Shoghi Effendi, in Compilation of Compilations, Volume 3 (2000). Importance and scope of the teaching work among the masses of various countries and their aboriginal and indigenous inhabitants. [about]
- Artemus Lamb, 1905-1998, by Quentin Farrand (1998). Biography of a pioneer to Central and South America, who also recorded pilgrim's notes with the Guardian. [about]
- Making of Central America, The: Intervention, Dictatorship, and Revolution, by Phillip Berryman, in dialogue magazine, 1:4 (1986). History of Western and Christian involvement in Latin America. (No mention of the Bahá'í Faith.) [about]
- Panama, The Crossroads between the Continents: The Story of the Early Days of the Bahá'í Faith in Panama 1939-1972, by Fuad Izadinia (2015). History of the first Bahá'í community in Panama, including a photo album; biographies of Martha Root, Mathew Kaszab, Louise Caswell, Cora Oliver, Julie Lois Regal, Hascle Cornbleth–Colon, Alfred Osborne, Raquel Francois, Clare Hamilton, Blanca De Campos. [about]
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