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| 25 May 1986 |
To the Bahá’ís of the World
Beloved Friends,
2.1 The Six Year Plan has been launched and national Bahá’í communities throughout the world are engaged in formulating their national goals. On the Day of the Covenant, 26 November 1986, a new term of five years will begin for those appointed to the Auxiliary Boards. In preparation for that event, we find it propitious to announce the following decisions.
2.2 As from last Riḍván, Turkey has been transferred from the area of responsibility of the Continental Board of Counselors in Asia to that of the Continental Board of Counselors in Europe. Counselor Ilhan Sezgin is, therefore, a member of the European Board of Counselors. It has also been decided to increase the size of the European Auxiliary Board for the Protection of the Faith to 36 members, which is the same as the number currently authorized for the Propagation Board in that continent.
2.3 In view of the growth of the Bahá’í community and its emergence from obscurity, we have decided to make the following further changes in the number of members of the Auxiliary Boards, to be effective from 26 November 1986:
| Present Number | Number Added | New Number | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | Protection Propagation |
81 99 |
9 9 |
90 108 |
| Americas | Protection Propagation |
54 117 |
9 0 |
63 117 |
| Asia | Protection Propagation |
99 117 |
0 9 |
99 126 |
| Australasia | Protection Propagation |
27 36 |
9 9 |
36 45 |
| Europe | Protection Propagation |
36 36 |
0 0 |
36 36 |
| Total | 702 | 54 | 756 | |
| Total Protection Total Propagation |
297 405 |
27 27 |
324 432 |
2.4 This further expansion of the institution of the Auxiliary Boards reflects the recent increase of the number of Continental Counselors from sixty three to seventy two and is required by the marked growth in the size of Bahá’í communities, a growth which it is confidently expected will accelerate during the Six Year Plan as the impact of the Faith's emergence from obscurity begins to make itself evident in a growing interest in its teachings by people in all walks of life.
2.5 It will also assist the vital development in maturity and experience of the National and Local Spiritual Assemblies, a process which mus synchronize with the further development of the World Center of the Faith and the advance of mankind towards the attainment of the lesser peace. Who can tell what challenges these burgeoning divine instutions will have to face int eh years immediately ahead—years which may well see the realization of mankind's gravest fears and the apperance of the fulfillment of its highest hopes.
2.6 Our prayers at the Sacred Threshoold are offered on behalf of every faithful follower of the Blessed Beauty who is laboring for the promotion of His Cause.
- With loving Bahá’í greetings,
- THE UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE
