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[94] [95] In 2013, two scholars of demography wrote that, "The Baha'i Faith is the only religion to have grown faster in every United Nations region over the past 100 years than the general population; Bahaʼi [sic] was thus the fastest-growing religion between 1910 and 2010, growing at least twice as fast as the population of almost every UN ...
The Canada 2011 Census National Household Survey recorded 18,945 Baháʼís. [12] In 2018, the Bahá’í Community of Canada's official website stated it had some 30,000 members, with a Spiritual Assembly found in most of the approximately 1,200 Bahá’í communities throughout the 13 provinces and territories of Canada. [13]
The news in 1971 was that the national count of Baháʼís had doubled - [125] The Christian Century noted that in a "one-month, 13-county 'teaching conference' based in Dillon, South Carolina, 9,000 converts, most of them black, joined the Baha'i faith (sic), with hundreds more signing declaration cards in similar efforts throughout the south."
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 ...
Website bic .org 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.
A diagram of the present Baháʼí administrative order. The Baháʼí administration includes both elected and appointed institutions. Governing bodies consisting of nine members are elected annually at both local and national levels, and every five years members of all National Spiritual Assemblies gather to elect the Universal House of Justice, an international governing body which ...
A Haziratu'l-Quds (Arabic, sacred fold), or Baháʼí centre, is one of the national, regional or local Baháʼí administrative centres. [ 1 ] Shoghi Effendi , the head of the Baháʼí Faith in the first half of the 20th century, wrote that the Haziratu'l-Quds should include the secretariat , treasury, archives, library, publishing office ...
A map of the location of Baháʼí Houses of Worship throughout the world: green represents countries that currently have Baháʼí Houses of Worship (with a black dot for the city); light green represents countries where Baháʼí Houses of Worship are planned or under construction; and red represents countries where a Baháʼí House of Worship previously existed.