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European Teaching campaign, exceeding fondest hopes, stimulated successively by convocation of the fourth European Teaching Conference in Scheveningen, representative of twenty-one countries, the first Iberian Conference in Madrid, the third Swiss Conference in Bern, the first Italian Conference in Rome, the first Benelux Conference in Brussels and the establishment of headquarters in Amsterdam, Brussels, Luxembourg-Ville, Bern and Lisbon. (27:2) The process of consolidation of the Faith stimulated by the recognition of Baha'i Holy Days by the Superintendent of Public Schools in Kenosha, Superintendent School in Milwaukee, and Rhode Island State Department of Civil Service, and of the Baha'i marriage certificate by civil authorities of Indianapolis; by the authorization by Adjutant General of Baha'i identification for believers serving in U.S. Armed Forces. (27:3) Baha'i administrative centers steadily multiplying in Hijaz, Yemen, Bahrayn, Ahsa, Koweit, Qatar, Dubai, Masqat, Aden, heralding convocation of historic Baha'i Convention in the Arabian Peninsula, destined to culminate in the erection of a pillar of the Universal House of Justice in the midmost heart of the Islamic world. (27:4) The nineteen month plan, formulated by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Indian subcontinent and Burma, aiming among other things at the introduction and consolidation of the Faith in the capital cities of Nepal, Siam, Indo-China, Malaya, Indonesia and Sarawak. (27:5) Ties binding International Baha'i Community to United Nations reinforced by official participation of Baha'i delegates in regional Nongovernmental Conferences in Istanbul, Managua, Den Passar, Paris and Lawrence, Kansas. Historic site of House occupied by Baha'u'llah in Istanbul has been partly purchased, and investigations conducted for the acquisition of similar sites associated with the exile of the Founder of the Faith in Adrianople.
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