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| 1911 21 Oct |
News of the Battle of Benghazi (17 October) was headline news. It was one of the opening salvos of the Turko-Italian War and began on the 17th of October when Italian invasion forces began their bombardment of the Turkish garrison. The Turks were forced to abandon the city and there were many lives lost, Italians, Turks and civilians.
His talk, The Pitiful Causes of War, and the Duty of Everyone to Strive for Peace. [ABF96-100 PT28-30]
See as well SoW Vol 2 No 14 November 23, 1911 p5 for His talk on the Battle of Benghazi.
The talk was attended by Remi de Gourmont, literary critic, essayist, poet and writer. The following day his editorial, "Le Béhhaïsmie: les idées dujour" was published in the newspaper Le France. [ABF95n287, 98] |
Paris; France; Benghazi; Libya; Turkey; Italy |
Abdul-Baha, First Western tour; War (general); History (general); Peace; Remy_de_Gourmont |
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| 1952. 21 Feb |
For their part in the Africa Campaign, Egypt was asked to send pioneers to Libya and to Algeria. The first pioneer to Libya, Dr.
Hussein Gollestaneh, arrived in
Benghazi from Egypt.
By June 5, 1952 the first
Libyan. Mr El Alamy, declared his faith in
Bahá'u'lláh. Later in June a Bahá'í
family, the Gorrah family, arrived to assist with the
teaching work. [BN No 246 August 1951 p10; BN No 260 October 1952 p5] |
Benghazi; Libya |
Hussein Gollestaneh; Mr El Alamy; Gorrah |
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| 1953 26 Aug |
Ella Bailey (b. 16 December, 1864, Houston, Harris County, Texas) passed away in Tripoli, Tarabulus, Libya at the age of 88 years. [BW12:687]
She was elevated to the rank of martyr. [MBW170]
For the story of her life see PSBW131–42.
See Bahá'í Chronicles.
For her obituary see BW12:685–8.
For information on her burial site and a short biography see Find-a-grave.
See Youtube video I Adjure Them - The Ella Bailey Story as told by Hand of the Cause of God William Sears.
She had accompanied Mr and Mrs Rober Gulick in their settlement in Tripoli. [BN No 271 september 1953 p6] |
Tripoli; Libya; Houston; Texas; United States |
Ella Bailey; Names and titles; In Memoriam; Births and deaths |
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| 1953 (In the year) |
Pioneers began to arrive in Libya;
Mustapha Salem arrived in July and settled in Tripoli, [BN No 272 October 1953 p9}
Asia and Feridon Zein and their two children settled in Benghazi, [BN No 272 October 1953 p9}
Rizvaniyyih Iqrari pioneered to Benghazi on 10 September, Mohsen Enayat pioneered within Libya from Tripoli to Feezan on the 26th of September, Mr. and Mrs. Ne'mat 'Abdu'l Wahid and Mr. Wahid's sister-in-law arrived in Tripoli, Libya in late September. [BN No 273 November 1953 p12-13]
Mrs. Laura Kelsey Allen arrived in Tripoli, September 3, 1953. [BN No 280 June 1954 p9]
As a result a Local Spiritual Assembly was formed in Benghazi in 1953 and in November of the same year in Tripoli. . [BN No 274 December 1953 p2; BN No 280 June 1954 p10] |
Tripoli; Libya; Banghazi; Libya |
Mustapha Salem; Asia Zein; Feridon Zein; Rizvaniyyih Iqrari; Mohsen Enayat; Laura Kelsey Allen; Local Spiritual Assembly, formation; Mr. and Mrs. Nemat Abdul Wahid |
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| 1956 Ridván |
The Regional Spiritual Assembly of North East Africa was formed by expanding the jurisdiction of the National Spiritual Assembly of Egypt and Sudan. [BW13:284]
Its area of jurisdiction now included Egypt, Sudan, Abyssinia, Libya, Eritrea, British, French and Italian Somaliland and Socotra Island.
From this date forward all African territories originally allocated to the United States, the Persian, the Egyptian, the Indian, and the British National Spiritual Assemblies became, in the course of the Ten-Year Plan, to benefit from the advantages of sustained assistance by these Assemblies Spiritual Assemblies. [MBW71-72]
Since 1956 National Spiritual Assembly of North East Africa had been led by the former National Spiritual Assembly of Egypt and the Sudan. In 1960 difficulties in Egypt made it impossible to administer territories outside of Egypt a regional administrative committee was formed and this, in turn, was replaced with a new National Spiritual Assembly with its headquarters in Addis Abba. [BW13p287]
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Egypt; Libya; Sudan; Eritrea; French Somaliland (Djibouti); Djibouti; Italian Somaliland; Ethiopia; Socotra Island; British Somaliland; Abyssinia; Eritrea |
National Spiritual Assembly, formation |
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| 1983 Ridván |
The number of Local Spiritual Assemblies in Africa rose to some 7,200 and localities
where Bahá'ís resided to over 35,000. In Algeria, the
Congo, Egypt, Libya and Niger the Faith
remained banned. [BW19p147] |
Algeria; Congo; Egypt; Libya; Niger |
Statistics; Persecution; National Spiritual Assembly, formation |
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- References to the Bahá'í Faith in the U.S. State Department's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, by United States Department of State (1991). Excerpts from the State Department's annual compilation of Country Reports on Human Rights Practices on discrimination against the Bahá'í Faith and persecution of its adherents in twenty countries. [about]
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