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1999 was a common year of the Gregorian calendar, the 1999th year of the Common Era (CE), the 99th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1990s decade. 1999 corresponds to the years 155–156 of the Bahá'í Era (BE) according to the Badi calendar.

Events[edit]

January[edit]

  • Finland's National Board of Education approves a Bahá’í curriculum for religious education for secondary schools.[1]
  • The National Spiritual Assembly of Russia is formally recognized as a centralized religious organization by the government of Russia.[2]
  • The Bahá’í Faith is recognized in a series of nine stamps issued in Singapore depicting major religions of the country.[3]

February[edit]

  • February 6: A Bahá’í youth workshop in Anchorage, Alaska is awarded the Spirit of Youth award by the city of Anchorage for outstanding contributions to the community.[4]
  • February 6: The Bahá’í community of Equatorial Guinea participates in a Proclamation for Justice event sharing selections from the Bahá’í writings on peace.[5]

March[edit]

  • March - June: The Bahá’í community of the Democratic Republic of Congo organizes an exhibition on the Bahá’í Faith in Lubumbashi.[6]
  • March 6: Bahá’ís of Cyprus participate in a United Nations celebration of International Women's Day and meet with the Chief of the Mission of the UN Peacekeeping force in Cyprus.[7]
  • March 23: A Bahá’í delegation meets with the President of Mauritius.[8]
  • March 29: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem establishes the first academic Chair devoted to the study of the writings and history of the Bahá’í Faith.[9]
  • The Green Light Project, a two year teaching initiative, is launched in Suriname aiming to to proclaim the Faith in the Sipaliwini district.[10]

April[edit]

  • April 19: The Bahá’í radio program of Rwanda resumes broadcasting after a five-year hiatus.[11]
  • April 23: The Bahá’í community of Puerto Rico holds a special ceremony to honor Carmen Jovet, a television and radio news personality who had organized aid efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane George.[10]
  • The Bahá’í community of Chad hosts its first National Youth Conference.[12]
  • Three Bahá’ís are arrested in Ethiopia for teaching the Faith however in court they are acquitted with the Judges noting the Bahá’í Faith was well-known in the country. Thirty-three people declare as a result of media coverage of the trial.[13]

May[edit]

  • May 3 - May 6: The Angola Bahá’í community facilitates its first Bahá’í study course on the advancement of women.[14]
  • May 22: Sang Correa, a well-known Gambian boxer who is a Bahá’í, marries Elizabeth Mendy in Lamin which is the first Bahá’í wedding in that region of Gambia.[13]
  • The Bahá’í community of Côte d'Ivoire launches an advancement of women campaign.[6]
  • Local Spiritual Assembly members from Burkina Faso and Togo participate in a two day conference in Papri, Togo, to discuss teaching the Faith, the advancement of women, children's education, and the importance of the Nineteen Day Feast.[15]

June[edit]

  • June 9: The Local Spiritual Assembly of Madina, Ghana, presents Bahá’í literature to the newly established Institute of Local Government Studies which aimed to train local government employees across the country.[13]
  • June 9: The Local Spiritual Assembly of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, hosts a seminar titled Curriculum for the Twenty-First Century which is attended by representatives of Primary and Secondary schools in the area and lecturers from the National University of Science and Technology.[16]
  • June 11 - June 13: A regional seminar for traditional village headmen who are Bahá’ís is held in Sinazongwe, Zambia, to provide deepening and the opportunity to consult on strengthening their respective Bahá’í communities.[16]
  • June 17: Youth from the Bahá’í community of Douala, Cameroon, participate in a parade held to commemorate the International Day of the African Child.[17]
  • A four day program is held at the National Bahá’í Center of Mozambique to train institute study circle tutors.[18]

July[edit]

  • July 27: A Bahá’í in N'zao, Guinea, organizes a meeting to raise awareness on the issue of female genital mutilation in the country.[19]
  • The Local Spiritual Assembly of Djibouti City obtains permission to teach the Faith in the country from the Sultan.[6]
  • The Bahá’í community of Canada is invited to and participates in a devotional program held at the official residence of the Governor-General of Canada.[20]

August[edit]

  • August 31: Bahá’ís of Trinidad & Tobago, Mansingh Amarsingh and Henry Collymore, are presented awards by the countries President for services in their professional fields.[21]
  • The Bahá’í Regional Women's Committee of the Sahel holds a conference in Parakou, Benin, attended by Bahá’ís from across West Africa.[17]
  • The Bahá’í community of Belize holds its first national Bahá’í children's conference in Belmopan.[22]
  • An event called the Encounter of the Native Peoples of the Americas is held in Sucre, Bolivia, and attended by six hundred Bahá’ís representing indigenous groups from across Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, and Panama. Elements of traditional culture and their relationship with the Bahá’í Faith are discussed at the event.[22]
  • The Pearls of the Caribbean teaching project conducts a teaching campaign in Gudaeloupe.[23]

September[edit]

  • September 24 - September 26: Bahá’ís representing institutions from Alaska, Canada, Finland, Greenland, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the United States gather for the first Circumpolar Bahá’í Conference in Yellowknife, Canada, to consult on the 1996 Ridvan message of the Universal House of Justice which called for greater collaboration in the region.[20]
  • September 25 - October 2: Local Spiritual Assembly members across Madagascar attend an institute training session at the Bahá’í Center in Antananarivo which focused on human resource development in large-scale community growth and spiritual aspects of the Faith.[24]
  • The National Spiritual Assembly of Chile sponsors a National Unity Gathering in Santiago to provide the opportunity for the Chilean Bahá’í community to consult on increasing the number of institute study circles in the country and establishing the Faith in the Mapuche and Copiapo desert regions of the country.[25]

October[edit]

  • October 1 - October 3: The first meeting of the National Spiritual Assemblies of the Andean countries is held in Lima, Peru, and attended by National Assembly members from Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.[26]
  • A Senegalese newspaper publishes an article critical of the Bahá’í Faith. The National Spiritual Assembly attempts to draft a response in the form of a letter to the editor but a response is not published until December, after a Bahá’í delegation met with the editor of the paper.[27]
  • Local Spiritual Assembly members from across Argentina gather at the countries national Bahá’í center to receive training on inter-Assembly cooperation, the training institute, and the role of Assembly officers.[28]

November[edit]

  • The Bahá’í community of Burkina Faso begins hosting regional women's and youth conferences.[17]

December[edit]

  • December 10: The Bahá’í community of El Salvador participates in a commemoration of the fifty-first anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights.[29]
  • December 12 - December 21: The Bahá’í Summer School of Botswana is held entirely in the Setswana language for the first time.[17]
  • December 17 - December 19: The government of the Republic of the Congo invites the Bahá’í community to participate in an Awareness-raising event at Parliament House.[12]
  • December 20 - December 21: The Pech Bahá’í Congress, for Bahá’ís of the Pech people, is held in Vallecito, Honduras. Preserving cultural identity, improving the quality of bilingual education in Pech villages, and expansion of Bahá’í communities are topics of consultation.[30]
  • December 28: The Bahá’í Faith is represented at an event called the Encounter of Religions organized by the Panama Ministry of Women, Youth Children, and the Family. The event was attended by the President of Panama, government ministers, and representatives of several religious groups.[26]
  • American Bahá’í Leilani Smith-Tellez undertakes a travel teaching trip to Cape Verde during which she presents programs being undertaken by the countries Bahá’í community to government officials.[12]
  • The Bahá’í community of Namibia hosts its first International Bahá’í Summer School which is attended by four hundred Bahá’ís.[18]
  • An international youth conference is held in Nairobi, Kenya.[31]

Establishments[edit]

National Spiritual Assemblies[edit]

Social & Economic Development[edit]

Deaths[edit]

Publications[edit]

Books[edit]

  • Black Pearls: Servants in the Households of the Báb and Bahá'u'lláh by Abu’l-Qasim Afnán.[36]
  • Years of Silence by Asadu'llah Alizad.
  • One Life, One Memory by Ruha Asdaq.
  • Who is Writing the Future? by the Bahá'í International Community.
  • Paradise and Paradigm: Key Symbols in Persian Christianity and the Bahá'í Faith by Christopher Buck.[37][38]
  • The Singapore Council of Women and the Women's Movement: An Account of Shirin Fozdar and the Women's Movement in Singapore by Phyllis Chew.[39]
  • Making World Peace Happen: The Bahá'i ́Faith and Esperanto by Paul Desailly.[40]
  • Birds of the Heart by Galya Gunderson.
  • Shoghi Effendi in Oxford by Riaz Khadem.
  • Under the Divine Lote Tree: Essays and Reflections by Jack McLean.
  • Servant of Glory: The Life of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá by Mary Perkins, illustrated by Gavin Worth.
  • The Flute Player and the Lazy One by Gail Radley, illustrated by Anne Meadowcroft-Wright.
  • Firesides by Catherine Samimi, illustrated by Gillian Nix.
  • Spinning the Clay into Stars edited by Robert Weinberg.

Albums[edit]

  • Bahá’í Prayers: At the Sacred Threshold by Lisa Janti & Bob Alcivar.[41]
  • The Messengers by the Messengers.[42]
  • Prayers and Writings by Vedad.[43]

Videos[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2000). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 27 (1998-1999), Pg(s) 80. View as PDF.
  2. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2000). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 27 (1998-1999), Pg(s) 112. View as PDF.
  3. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2000). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 27 (1998-1999), Pg(s) 116. View as PDF.
  4. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2000). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 27 (1998-1999), Pg(s) 96. View as PDF.
  5. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2000). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 27 (1998-1999), Pg(s) 103. View as PDF.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2001). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 28 (1999-2000), Pg(s) 51. View as PDF.
  7. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2000). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 27 (1998-1999), Pg(s) 101. View as PDF.
  8. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2000). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 27 (1998-1999), Pg(s) 115. View as PDF.
  9. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2000). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 27 (1998-1999), Pg(s) 74. View as PDF.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2001). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 28 (1999-2000), Pg(s) 68. View as PDF.
  11. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2000). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 27 (1998-1999), Pg(s) 106. View as PDF.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2001). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 28 (1999-2000), Pg(s) 50. View as PDF.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2001). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 28 (1999-2000), Pg(s) 52. View as PDF.
  14. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2001). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 28 (1999-2000), Pg(s) 48. View as PDF.
  15. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2001). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 28 (1999-2000), Pg(s) 58. View as PDF.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2001). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 28 (1999-2000), Pg(s) 59. View as PDF.
  17. ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2001). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 28 (1999-2000), Pg(s) 49. View as PDF.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2001). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 28 (1999-2000), Pg(s) 55. View as PDF.
  19. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2001). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 28 (1999-2000), Pg(s) 53. View as PDF.
  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2001). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 28 (1999-2000), Pg(s) 62. View as PDF.
  21. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2001). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 28 (1999-2000), Pg(s) 69. View as PDF.
  22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2001). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 28 (1999-2000), Pg(s) 61. View as PDF.
  23. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2001). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 28 (1999-2000), Pg(s) 65. View as PDF.
  24. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2001). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 28 (1999-2000), Pg(s) 54. View as PDF.
  25. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2001). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 28 (1999-2000), Pg(s) 63. View as PDF.
  26. ↑ 26.0 26.1 The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2001). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 28 (1999-2000), Pg(s) 67. View as PDF.
  27. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2001). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 28 (1999-2000), Pg(s) 56. View as PDF.
  28. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2001). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 28 (1999-2000), Pg(s) 60. View as PDF.
  29. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2001). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 28 (1999-2000), Pg(s) 64. View as PDF.
  30. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2001). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 28 (1999-2000), Pg(s) 66. View as PDF.
  31. ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (2001). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 28 (1999-2000), Pg(s) 53. View as PDF.
  32. ↑ https://www.monafoundation.org/what-we-do
  33. ↑ https://news.bahai.org/story/186/
  34. ↑ Badee, Hooshmand. Bahá’í Teachings on Economics and Their Implications for the Bahá’í Community and the Wider Society p 289
  35. ↑ https://rowhanibahaischool.weebly.com/about-us.html
  36. ↑ Black Pearls at Kalimat Press website
  37. ↑ Paradise and Paradigm at Kalimat Press website
  38. ↑ Paradise and Paradigm at Amazon.com
  39. ↑ The Singapore Council of Women and the Women's Movement at goodreads.com
  40. ↑ https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Making_World_Peace_Happen.html?id=oPvkAAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
  41. ↑ https://bahaimusicstore.com/lisa-janti-bahai-prayers-at-the-sacred-threshold
  42. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/The-Messengers-The-Messengers/release/11230291
  43. ↑ https://9starmedia.com/vedad-prayers-and-writings
  44. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDpmUjhVFhk&ab_channel=Baha%27iVision
  45. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjIreYaxEBw&ab_channel=Baha%27iVision
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