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Seat of the Universal House of Justice
The photograph taken August 10, 1978, shows a third of the first of 58 marble columns that will surround the Seat of the Universal House of Justice can be seen in the foreground. A team of French artisans is installing marble facing on the building, and work has begun on the northwest corner. Other workmen are completing the wooden form for the pouring of the concrete for the building's dome.
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Bahá’í News
Bahá’í Year 135 No. 572 For Bahá’ís Only
Contents
Seven new National Assemblies formed 2 Reports from the Bahamas, Cyprus and the Marianas
The Peoples of God: Part 5
Teaching among the indigenous peoples of Panama ........... 8 Teaching in Puerto Rico | 2 Intensive campaign doubles the number of Assemblies .........
Around the world { 4
News from Bahá’í communities in every corner of the globe .....
Cover
High on a mountain overlooking the blue Pacific Ocean stands the Mother Temple of Latin America, its brilliant white dome a beacon symbolizing the unity of east and west, and its presence a silent tribute to the enormous contribution to the growth and develop- ment of the Faith in this hemisphere made by the Indians of the Americas. A report on the progress of the Cause of God among the Indians of Panama begins on Page 8.
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‘We joyfully hail the
formation of seven
more National Spiritual
Assemblies, those of
Burundi, Mauritania,
the Bahamas, Oman,
Qatar, the Mariana
Islands and Cyprus...’
The Universal
House of Justice
Ridvan 1978
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the Bahamas...
(The following report of the first National Convention of the Baha'is of the Bahamas was written for Bahá’í News by Dr. H. Elsie Austin.—Ed.)
The historic first National Convention of the Bahá’ís of the Bahamas was held May 19-21, 1978, in Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas. The Convention site was the Pilot House Hotel on New Providence Island.
Preceding the event, whose purpose was to elect the first National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the Bahamas, a group of dedicated Bahá’ís that included the Bahá’í Teaching Committee of the Bahamas and other willing friends worked long and hard to prepare the setting for the Convention. They redeco- rated the lovely National Bahá’í Center and attended to the many details and arrangements necessary to ensure a smoothly- functioning National Convention.
Among those present at the Convention were the Hand of the Cause of God William Sears, representing the Universal House of Justice; Lloyd Gardner, a member of the Continental Board of Counsellors for North America; Glenford E. Mitchell, represent- ing the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States, and Dr. William Tucker, Auxiliary Board member for the Bahamas.
