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| 1940. (In the year) |
Ruth and Ellsworth Blackwell were the first Bahá’í pioneers to move to Haiti, where they spent more than half of the next thirty-five years. The book, White and Negro Alike. Stories of Baha'i Pioneers Ellsworth and Ruth Blackwell tells the story of the victories and the challenges they experienced in Haiti and in periods when they returned to Chicago between 1940 and 1975. It was written by Audrey Mike and published by Our Life Words.
See the story of Ellsworth Blackwell, NSA member, ABM, pioneer to Madagascar and to Zaire (DRC) where he passed away in 1978. [Bahaipedia] |
Haiti; Madagascar; Zaire |
Ellsworth Blackwell; Ruth Blackwell |
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| 1953 Ridván |
Mrs Meherangiz Munsiff, the wife of an Indian diplomat in London, arrived in Madagascar and was acknowledged as the first Bahá’í in the country. [BWNS288]
There was one other Bahá’í in Madagascar before Mrs Munsiff but he was not a Bahá’í in good standing.
Suffering ill health, Mrs. Munsiff left in January 1954 a day after Danile Randrianarivo, 29, accepted the Faith, becoming the first Malagasy Bahá'í. |
Madagascar |
Meherangiz Munsiff; Danile Randrianarivo; First Bahais by country or area |
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| 1953 27 Dec |
Gilbert and Daisy Robert, a French couple, become Bahá’ís in Madagascar, the first people to accept the Faith in the country. |
Madagascar |
Gilbert Robert; Daisy Robert |
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| 1955 Ridván |
The first local spiritual assembly in Madagascar was formed in Tananarive (Antananarivo). |
Tananarive (Antananarivo); Madagascar |
Local Spiritual Assembly |
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| 1964 Ridván |
The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of South and West Africa that was formed in 1956, was altered and two additional national assemblies were formed, Indian Ocean, and South Central Africa. South and West Africa remained.
The National Spiritual Assembly of the Indian Ocean was formed with its seat in Port Louis had jurisdiction over the following countries: Mauritius, Chagos Archipelago, Rodriguez Island, Malagasy Republic, (formerly Madagascar; name changed in 1958) Seychelles Islands, Comoro Islands, and Reunion Island. [BW14p96; BW15:195] |
Port Louis; Mauritius; Chagos Archipelago; Rodriguez Island; Malagasy Republic (Madagascar); Seychelles; Comoro Islands; Reunion |
National Spiritual Assembly, formation |
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| 1972 Ridván |
The National Spiritual Assembly of the Malagasy Republic (Madagascar) was formed with its seat in Tananarive. [BW15:199, BWNS288]
For pictures see BW15:153, 198.
The "Mother Assembly", the National Spiritual Assembly of the Indian Ocean, was left with the Chagos Archipelago, Comoros with the formation of the National Spiritual Assemblies of Réunion, Madagascar and Mauritius. [BN no608 November 1981 p11] |
Tananarive (Antananarivo); Malagasy Republic (Madagascar); Madagascar |
National Spiritual Assembly, formation; BWNS |
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| 1989 Aug |
Forty Bahá’ís from Réunion, Mauritius, Seychelles and France joined a teaching campaign in Madagascar during which 724 people become Bahá’ís. [BINS217:4] |
Madagascar |
mass conversion |
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- Servants of the Glory: A Chronicle of Forty Years of Pioneering, by Adrienne Morgan and Dempsey Morgan (2017). Memoirs of a black couple from the United States who lived and spread the Bahá’í Faith in across parts of east Asia and Africa in the 1950s-1980s. Text by Dempsey Morgan, poems by Adrienne Morgan. Link to document offsite. [about]
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