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Baháʼí News was founded as part of Shoghi Effendi's strengthening of the administration of the Baháʼí Faith in his role as Guardian.As William Garlington writes in his book The Baha'i Faith in America, "[E]mphasis was placed on developing positive methods of communication between the various Baha'i administrative institutions.
The word "Baháʼí" (بهائی) is used either as an adjective to refer to the Baháʼí Faith or as a term for a follower of Baháʼu'lláh.The proper name of the religion is the "Baháʼí Faith", not Baháʼí or Baháʼism (the latter, once common among academics, is regarded as derogatory by the Baháʼís).
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The Baháʼí International Community, or the BIC, is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) representing the members of the Baháʼí Faith; [1] [2] it was first chartered in March 1948 with the United Nations, and currently has affiliates in over 180 countries and territories. [2] [3]
In 1901 when the American Baha'i community numbered only roughly 2000 members, [49] they approached the US Ambassador to Persia Herbert W. Bowen in Paris concerning the situation of Baháʼís. [50] As an example of the persecution Baha'is faced (then and now) in Iran, even an American diplomat was murdered in 1924 by a mob on suspicion of ...
The census figures are consistently between 2 and 3% for the Baháʼís while the Baháʼís claim numbers above 17%. [18] All together the Baháʼís now claim more than 10,000 local people have joined the religion over the last 50 years and there are 38 local spiritual assemblies.
The Association of Religion Data Archives estimates there were 7,776 Baháʼís in Belize in 2005, or 2.5% of the national population. [30] Their data also states that the Baháʼí Faith is the second most common religion in Belize, followed by Hinduism (2.0%) and Judaism (1.1%). [31] The 2010 Belize Population Census recorded 202 Baháʼís ...
In "The Baha'i Faith 1957–1988: A Survey of Contemporary Developments" (Religion: 1989), Baháʼí authors Momen and Smith provide the following estimates of the Baháʼís in the world over 3 decades, broken out by cultural areas. They derived numbers from, "calculation of approximate numbers from the number of Bahá'í organizations ...