The Baháʼí administration is a system of elected and appointed institutions to govern the affairs of the Baháʼí community. Its supreme body is the Universal...
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Shoghi Effendi (redirect from Baháʼí Administration (book))
of existing Baháʼí communities, responding to persecution in the Middle East, coordinating teaching efforts, and building up the Baháʼí World Centre...
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peace. Baháʼí teachings stress the importance of implementing this principle in individual, family, and community life. Nevertheless, the Baháʼí notion...
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Spiritual Assembly (redirect from Regional Baháʼí Council)
ʻAbdu'l-Bahá to refer to elected councils that govern the Baháʼí Faith. Because the Baháʼí Faith has no clergy, they carry out the affairs of the community...
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The Baháʼí calendar used in the Baháʼí Faith is a solar calendar consisting of nineteen months and four or five intercalary days, with new year at the...
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The Baháʼí World Centre is the name given to the spiritual and administrative centre of the Baháʼí Faith, representing sites in or near the cities of Acre...
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The Baháʼí teachings represent a considerable number of theological, ethical, social, and spiritual ideas that were established in the Baháʼí Faith by...
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[better source needed] Baháʼí administration Baháʼí–Azali split Baháʼí cosmology Baháʼí Faith and gender equality Baháʼí Faith in fiction Baháʼí studies Baháʼí timeline...
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Universal House of Justice (redirect from Stephen Hall (Baháʼí))
nine-member supreme ruling body of the Baháʼí Faith. It was envisioned by Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith, as an institution that could legislate...
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A Baháʼí House of Worship or Baháʼí temple is a place of worship of the Baháʼí Faith. It is also referred to by the name Mashriqu'l-Adhkár, which is Arabic...
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children get together to study about Baháʼí teachings, Baháʼí central figures, or Baháʼí administration. Baháʼí topics may be minimized in favor of a...
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Illinois, USA: Baháʼí Publishing Trust. ISBN 0-87743-195-7. Effendi, Shoghi (1974). Baháʼí Administration. Wilmette, Illinois, USA: Baháʼí Publishing Trust...
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and restraint outside of matrimony, Baháʼí practices exclude premarital, extramarital, or homosexual intimacy. Baháʼí institutions have taken no position...
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represent the true Baháʼí Faith and the majority are Covenant-breakers. Some Baháʼís have claimed that there have been no divisions in the Baháʼí Faith, or that...
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Baháʼí laws are laws and ordinances used in the Baháʼí Faith and are a fundamental part of Baháʼí practice. The laws are based on authenticated texts...
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Unity of humanity is one of the central teachings of the Baháʼí Faith. The Baháʼí teachings state that since all humans have been created in the image...
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Covenant-breaker (category Bahá'í divisions)
Covenant-breaker is a term used in the Baháʼí Faith to refer to a person who has been excommunicated from the Baháʼí community for breaking the Covenant...
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relates closely to Baháʼí views on God's essential unity, and the nature of prophets, termed Manifestations of God. It also ties into Baháʼí views of the purpose...
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following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Baháʼí Faith. Baháʼí Faith – relatively new religion teaching the essential worth of all...
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the Baháʼí administration, with its members elected every five years. Baháʼí sources and most scholarly works estimate the current worldwide Baháʼí population...
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individuals. The Baháʼí Faith was recognized as having a widespread international membership by the 1980s. One author has asserted that Baháʼí Faith is the...
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Baháʼu'lláh (category Bahá'í central figures)
Miller in his 1974 polemic against the Baháʼí Faith. Baháʼu'lláh was born in Tehran, Iran, on 12 November 1817. Baháʼí authors trace his ancestry to Abraham...
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Baháʼí Faith has maintained its unity and avoided serious division, although several attempts have been made to create sects. Every attempted Baháʼí schism...
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Hands of the Cause (redirect from Custodians (Bahá'í Faith))
of the Cause who worked in the Baháʼí World Centre. The most complete list of the Hands available is from The Baháʼí World: Vol XIV. The Universal House...
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local Baháʼí councils, and other former Baháʼí leaders around the country; along with everyone who signed the open letter defending the Baháʼí community...
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of any region. According to the Annual Report of the Baháʼí community, there were 61,650 Baháʼí core activities taking place in July 2020, with 406,000...
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The Orthodox Baháʼí Faith is an extremely small Baháʼí sect that was formed in 1960 by Mason Remey, and subsequently was the name used by one of his disputed...
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by Shoghi Effendi as the charters of the Baháʼí administration. The Covenant is a critical aspect of the Baháʼí Faith. The Will and Testament of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá...
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Kitáb-i-Aqdas (section Administration)
religious text of the Baháʼí Faith, written by Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the religion, in 1873. Though it is the main source of Baháʼí laws and practices...
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Baháʼí World: 1950-1957. Wilmette, Illinois: Baháʼí Publishing Trust. p. 45. ISBN 978-0877430360. Holley, Horace (June 1951). "International Baha'i Council...
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