The Five Year Plan 2011-2016 (Summary)/Notes

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1 Riḍván 2010 message written by the Universal House of Justice to the Bahá’ís of the world.

2 Message dated 29 December 2015 written by the Universal House of Justice to the Conference of the Continental Boards of Counsellors.

3 Message dated 29 December 2015.

4 Message dated 29 January 2014 written by the Universal House of Justice to the Bahá’í youth in the Cradle of the Faith.

5 Message dated 29 December 2015.

6 Message dated 29 December 2015.

7 Riḍván 2015 message written by the Universal House of Justice to the Bahá’ís of the world.

8 Message dated 29 December 2015.

9 Message dated 29 December 2015.

10 Message dated 28 December 2010 written by the Universal House of Justice to the Conference of the Continental Boards of Counsellors.

11 Riḍván 2015 message.

12 Message dated 23 May 2011 written by the Universal House of Justice to the Bahá’ís of the world.

13 Message dated 29 December 2015.

14 Message dated 28 December 2010.

15 Message dated 29 December 2015.

16 Message dated 28 December 2010.

17 Message dated 23 May 2011.

18 Riḍván 2015 message.

19 Message dated 29 December 2015.

20 Message dated 29 December 2015.

21 Message dated 12 December 2011 written by the Universal House of Justice to all National Spiritual Assemblies.

22 Message dated 29 December 2015.

23 Message dated 29 December 2015.

24 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Tablets of the Divine Plan (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1993, 2006 printing), p.33.

25 Message dated 29 December 2015.

26 Riḍván 2012 message written by the Universal House of Justice to the Bahá’ís of the world.

27 Message dated 28 December 2010.

28 Message dated 29 December 2015.

29 Letter dated 24 December 2014 written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

30 Message dated 29 December 2015.

31 Message dated 8 February 2013 written by the Universal House of Justice to the Bahá’ís of the world.

32 Message dated 29 December 2015. [Page 128] 33 Message dated 8 February 2013.

34 Message dated 5 December 2013 written by the Universal House of Justice to the Bahá’ís of the world.

35 Message dated 8 February 2013.

36 Message dated 29 December 2015.

37 Message dated 29 January 2014.

38 Message dated 29 December 2015.

39 Message dated 29 December 2015.

40 Message dated 12 December 2011.

41 Message dated 28 December 2010.

42 Message dated 29 December 2015.

43 Riḍván 2012 message.

44 Shoghi Effendi, Bahá’í Administration: Selected Messages 1922-1932 (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1974, reprint 1998), p. 108.

45 Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (Wilmette, Illinois: Bahá’í Publishing, 2014), section 58.1., p. 101.

46 Tablets of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá Abbas volume I (New York: Bahá’í Publishing Committee, 1930), p. 17.

47 Riḍván 2001 message written by the Universal House of Justice to the Bahá’ís of the world.

48 Riḍván 2012 message.

49 Message dated 18 December 2014 written by the Universal House of Justice to the Bahá’ís in Iran.

50 Message dated 1 August 2014 written by the Universal House of Justice to the Bahá’ís of the world.

51 Riḍván 2014 message written by the Universal House of Justice to the Bahá’ís of the world.

52 Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, (Bundoora, Vic.: Bahá’í Publications Australia, 2011), section CIX, par. 2.

53 Message dated 29 December 2015.

54 Message dated 29 December 2015.

55 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, The Secret of Divine Civilization (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 2015), par. 193.

56 The Promulgation of Universal Peace, Talks Delivered by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá during His Visit to the United States and Canada in 1912 (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 2012), from a talk in New York, 1 July 1912, at 309 West Seventy-eighth Street, notes by Howard MacNutt, par. 3.

57 Riḍván 2013 message written by the Universal House of Justice to the Bahá’ís of the world.

58 Riḍván 2010 message.

59 United Nations, One Humanity: Shared Responsibility, Report of the Secretary-General for the World Humanitarian Summit, A/70/709.

60 Will and Testament of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1944 (2013 printing)), p. 13.

61 Riḍván 2013 message.

62 ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Some Answered Questions (Haifa: Bahá’í World Centre, 2014), Foreword, p. xvi.