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Feel assured consummation of the sixty year old enterprise will synchronize with the holding of the forthcoming New Delhi Intercontinental Teaching Conference, sealing the triumphant worldwide festivities of the Holy Year commemorating the centenary of the birth of the Mission of Baha'u'llah. (50:2) Roll of Honor- Transmit the following joyful tidings National Spiritual Assemblies of the Baha'i world. World spiritual crusade, mightiest agency yet conceived for the systematic execution of `Abdu'l-Baha's Divine Plan, has been befittingly ushered in through successive, magnificent victories won by Baha'u'llah's crusaders in virgin territories in every continent of the globe. (50:3) Four months which have elapsed since its glorious inauguration amidst the climax of the Centenary of the inception of His Mission, have been immortalized by the opening of no less than twenty-eight territories and islands, nine in Europe, eight in America, six in Africa, five in Asia, constituting a dispersal unprecedented in its rapidity and scope during eleven decades of Baha'i history. (50:4) The number of pioneers who responded to the call for settlement of open and unopened territories on the planet passed the three hundred mark; over a hundred and fifty from America, over fifty from Europe, over forty from Africa, over forty from Asia. The number of prospective pioneers to virgin areas is over forty. All Western Hemisphere and African areas allocated to the United States National Assembly, as well as all European areas allocated to the various National Assemblies, have been assigned.
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