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Dorothy Beecher Baker
Dorothy Beecher Baker (December 21, 1898 - January 10, 1954) was an American teacher and prominent member of the Baháʼà Faith. She rose to leadership positions in a Local Spiritual Assembly and then was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of the religion, serving a total of sixteen years. During World War II, she undertook leadership of the National Assembly's Race Unity Committee and of efforts to expand the religion into Mexico, Central and South America. In December 1951 she was recognized for her service, appointed by Shoghi Effendi, then head of the religion, to the rank of persons known as Hands of the Cause of God. People of this rank were appointed for life whose main function was to propagate and protect the Baháʼà Faith. Unlike the members of the elected institutions and other appointed institutions in the religion, who serve in those offices, Hands are considered to have achieved a distinguished rank in service to the religion. On 24 December 1951 she was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baháʼà Faith
The Baháʼà Faith is a religion founded in the 19th century that teaches the Baháʼà Faith and the unity of religion, essential worth of all religions and Baháʼà Faith and the unity of humanity, the unity of all people. Established by Baháʼu'lláh in the 19th century, it initially developed in Iran and parts of the Middle East, where it has faced ongoing Persecution of BaháʼÃs, persecution since its inception. The religion is estimated to have 5–8 million adherents, known as BaháʼÃs, spread throughout most of the world's countries and territories. The Baháʼà Faith has three central figures: the Báb (1819–1850), considered a herald who taught his followers that God would soon send a prophet similar to Jesus or Muhammad; the Báb was executed by Iranian authorities in 1850; Baháʼu'lláh (1817–1892), who claimed to be that prophet in 1863 and faced exile and imprisonment for most of his life; and his son, Ê»Abdu'l-Bahá (1844–1921), who was released f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pioneering (BaháʼÃ)
Pioneer commonly refers to a settler who migrates to previously uninhabited or sparsely inhabited land. In the United States pioneer commonly refers to an American pioneer, a person in American history who migrated west to join in settling and developing new areas. Pioneer, The Pioneer, or pioneering may also refer to: Companies and organizations * Pioneer Aerospace Corporation *Pioneer Chicken, an American fast-food restaurant chain *Pioneer Club Las Vegas, a casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. *Pioneer Corporation, a Japanese electronics manufacturer *Pioneer Energy, a Canadian gas station chain *Pioneer Entertainment, a Japanese anime company *Pioneer Hi-Bred, a U.S.-based agriculture company *Pioneer Hotel & Gambling Hall, Laughlin, Nevada, U.S. *Pioneer Instrument Company, an American aeronautical instrument manufacturer *Pioneer movement, a communist youth organization *Pioneer Natural Resources, an energy company in Texas, U.S. *Pioneer Pictures, a former American film stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhikru'llah Khadem
Zikrullah Khadem ( ar, , or Dhikru'lláh Khádim; 1904–1986) was an Iranian follower of the Baháʼà Faith, appointed for life by the head of the Faith to a select leadership role as a Hand of the Cause in February 1952. The 27 Hands played a key role in the transition of power in the religion during the leadership crisis after the death of Shoghi Effendi in 1957. After his appointment in 1952, he dedicated himself full-time to serve the Baháʼà Faith and travelled extensively throughout Iran, Africa, Europe, the USA, and at least 50 countries around the world. In the 1960s Khadem and fellow Hand William Sears were the two most prominent Baháʼà figures in the Western hemisphere, and were responsible for both spreading the religion and maintaining its unity. Before 1952, he worked for a British oil company in southern Iran and the Iraqi Embassy in Tehran. He had proficiency in Persian, Arabic, English, and French that he used to translate works and communicate with d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Townshend (BaháʼÃ)
George Townshend (1876–1957) was born in Ireland and was a well-known writer and Anglican clergyman who converted to the Baháʼà Faith at age 70. Baháʼà leader Shoghi Effendi named Townshend a Hands of the Cause, Hand of the Cause of God and one of the United Kingdom's three luminaries of the Baháʼà Faith. Early accomplishments Townshend went to the University of Oxford for a time, then returned to Ireland where he was a lead writer for ''The Irish Times'' from 1900 to 1904. In 1904 he emigrated to the United States and was ordained in Salt Lake City. He then went to Sewanee, Tennessee, where he became Associate Professor of English at the Sewanee, The University of the South, University of the South. Return to Ireland Townshend spent many years near Ballinasloe, County Galway, where he was incumbent of Ahascragh and Archdeacon of Clonfert. Around this time he achieved recognition with "The Alter on the Hearth (1927)" and more widely with "The Genius of Ireland (1930)". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ê»AlÃ-Muhammad Varqá
Ê»AlÃ-Muhammad Varqá ( fa, ; 1911September 22, 2007) was a prominent adherent of the Baháʼà Faith. He was the longest surviving Hand of the Cause of God, an appointed position in the Baháʼà Faith whose main function is to propagate and protect the religion on the international level. Varqá was born in 1911 in Tehran, Iran to a well-known Iranian Baháʼà family. His grandfather MÃrzá Ê»AlÃ-Muhammad Varqá, from whom he received his name, was an Apostle of Baháʼu'lláh, and his father, ValÃyu'lláh Varqá, was also a Hand of the Cause. Varqá moved to Paris and studied at the Sorbonne, where he obtained a doctorate in 1950. He then returned to Iran and taught at the universities of Tehran and Tabriz. During this time, he also served in various administrative capacities in the Baháʼà community of Iran. After his father's death, Varqá was appointed as a Hand of the Cause by Shoghi Effendi on November 15, 1955. He served in that capacity for 52 years u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Grossman
Hermann or Herrmann may refer to: * Hermann (name), list of people with this name * Arminius, chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe in the 1st century, known as Hermann in the German language * Éditions Hermann, French publisher * Hermann, Missouri, a town on the Missouri River in the United States ** Hermann AVA, Missouri wine region * The German SC1000 bomb of World War II was nicknamed the "Hermann" by the British, in reference to Hermann Göring * Herrmann Hall, the former Hotel Del Monte, at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California * Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, a large health system in Southeast Texas * The Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI), a system to measure and describe thinking preferences in people * Hermann station (other), stations of the name * Hermann (crater), a small lunar impact crater in the western Oceanus Procellarum * Hermann Huppen, a Belgian comic book artist * Hermann 19, an American sailboat design built by Ted Herman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ugo Giachery
Ugo Giachery (May 13, 1896 – July 5, 1989) was a prominent Italian Baháʼà from an aristocratic family from Palermo. At an anniversary of the founding of the spiritual assembly of Perugia Giachery told the story of how, as a young wounded soldier, still ignorant of the Baháʼà Faith, he was in Perugia in 1916. After World War I he moved to the United States, where he became a Baháʼà around 1926. In 1947, his family moved back to Rome in Italy. He translated many Baháʼà books into Italian. From 1948 he started taking care of the marble supplies from Italy for the superstructure of the Shrine of the Báb and the International Archives Building. He was appointed a Hand of the Cause by Shoghi Effendi Shoghà Effendi (; 1 March 1897 – 4 November 1957) was the grandson and successor of Ê»Abdu'l-Bahá, appointed to the role of Guardian of the Baháʼà Faith from 1921 until his death in 1957. He created a series of teaching plans that over ... in December 195 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ê»AlÃ-Akbar Furútan
Ê»AlÃ-Akbar Furútan (29 April 1905 – 26 November 2003) was a prominent Iranian Baháʼà educator and author who was given the rank of Hand of the Cause in 1951. A native of Sabzivár in what was, at the time, Iran's Khurásán, Ê»AlÃ-Akbar Furútan was still a child when he witnessed the persecution of his family and others for their beliefs. Seeking safety, the family moved in 1914 from Sabzivár to Ashkhabad in Turkestan, which was then a part of the Russian Empire. In 1926, nine years after the Russian Revolution, 21-year-old Furútan won a scholarship to the University of Moscow, where he studied education and child psychology. Within four years, as a result of his Baháʼà activities, he was expelled from the Soviet Union and, in 1930, returned to Iran. After he returned to Iran, he and his wife helped administer the ''Tarbiyat School for Boys'', which was later closed by the Pahlavi government. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baháʼà Faith In Uganda
The Baháʼà Faith in Uganda started to grow in 1951 and four years later there were 500 BaháʼÃs in 80 localities, including 13 Baháʼà Local Spiritual Assemblies, representing 30 tribes, and had dispatched 9 pioneers to other African locations. Following the reign of Idi Amin when the Baháʼà Faith was banned and the murder of Baháʼà Hand of the Cause Enoch Olinga and his family, the community continues to grow though estimates of the population range widely from 19,000 to 105,000 and the community's involvements have included diverse efforts to promote the welfare of the Ugandan people. The Association of Religion Data Archives (relying on World Christian Encyclopedia) estimated about 78,500; howeverNational Population & Housing Census, 2014recorded only 29,601. Early history Ê»Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablets of the Divine Plan Ê»Abdu'l-Bahá wrote a series of letters, or tablets, to the followers of the religion in the United States in 1916–1917; these letters were comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hand Of The Cause
Hand of the Cause was a title given to prominent early members of the Baháʼà Faith, appointed for life by the religion's founders. Of the fifty individuals given the title, the last living was Ê»AlÃ-Muhammad Varqá who died in 2007. Hands of the Cause played a significant role in propagating the religion, and protecting it from schism. With the passing of Shoghi Effendi in 1957, the twenty-seven living Hands of the Cause at the time would be the last appointed. The Universal House of Justice, the governing body first elected in 1963, created the Institution of the Counsellors in 1968 and the appointed Continental Counsellors over time took on the role that the Hands of the Cause were filling. The announcement in 1968 also changed the role of the Hand of the Cause, changing them from continental appointments to worldwide, and nine Counsellors working at the International Teaching Centre took on the role of the nine Hands of the Cause who worked in the Baháʼà World Centre. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Europe Bah Bah is a Block and sub-division in Agra district of Uttar Pradesh in India. The township is on the State Highway 62 of Uttar Pradesh. The place is surrounded by three rivers giving it its name. Geography This place is situated in Agra distr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baháʼà Pilgrimage
A Baháʼà pilgrimage currently consists of visiting the holy places in Haifa, Acre, and Bahjà at the Baháʼà World Centre in Northwest Israel. BaháʼÃs do not have access to other places designated as sites for pilgrimage. Baháʼu'lláh decreed pilgrimage in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas to two places: the House of Baháʼu'lláh in Baghdad, and the House of the Báb in Shiraz. In two separate tablets, known as ''Suriy-i-Hajj'', he prescribed specific rites for each of these pilgrimages. It is obligatory to make the pilgrimage, "if one can afford it and is able to do so, and if no obstacle stands in one's way". Baháʼu'lláh has "exempted women as a mercy on His part", though the Universal House of Justice has clarified that women are free to perform this pilgrimage. BaháʼÃs are free to choose between the two houses, as either has been deemed sufficient. Later, Ê»Abdu'l-Bahá designated the Shrine of Baháʼu'lláh at Bahjà (the Qiblih) as a site of pilgrimage. No rit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
