Albert Lincoln
Albert Lincoln | |
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 Albert Lincoln at the Opening of the Terraces, 2001. | |
| NSA member | Central African Republic 1972 - ???? |
| ABM | Africa ???? - ???? |
Albert Lincoln is an American Bahá’í who served as Secretary-General of the Bahá’í International Community from 1994 to 2013. He also pioneered to Africa in the early 1970's where he served on three National Spiritual Assemblies and as an Auxiliary Board member. In his career he is a lawyer and has served as a Fulbright Lecturer of Law at the University of Bangui.
Biography[edit]
Lincoln and his wife Joan pioneered to France at the start of the 1970's and in 1971 Lincoln participated in a United Nations seminar on racial discrimination in Nice.[1] They then pioneered to French-speaking Africa,[2] and in 1972 Lincoln was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Central African Republic.[3] In August 1973 he visited the Ivory Coast and addressed a session at the Sixth World Conference on World Peace Through Law speaking on the United Nations Charter and the stance of the Bahá’í Faith.[4]
In 1976 Lincoln became the first non-French lawyer to be admitted to the Bar in the Central African Republic being sworn in with a ceremony which was broadcast on national radio and television with the Attorney General mentioning that he was a Bahá’í.[5] He joined the Law Faculty of the University of Bangui at some point serving as a Fulbright Lecturer while continuing to practice law.[6]
While in Africa Lincoln was appointed the special representative of the Bahá’í International Community in Africa and he completed assignments in Mali, Gabon, Guinea, and the Republic of the Congo.[6] In 1980 he represented the Bahá’í International Community at the ninth Conference on the Law of the World held in Madrid, Spain.[7] By 1981 he had been appointed as an Auxiliary Board member and that year he attended a reception for all religious groups held by the President of the Central African Republic alongside members of the National Spiritual Assembly.[8]
In 1994 Lincoln was appointed as the Secretary-General of the Bahá’í International Community and moved to the Bahá’í World Centre in Israel to serve.[9] While living in the Holy Land he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Haifa in 2010 and an Award of Merit from the City of Haifa in 2013.[6]
In 2013 Lincoln retired from his position and departed the Holy Land settling in Boston where he works as a mediator and serves as a consultant to Bahá’í communities on projects in Chile, India, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.[10]
Talks[edit]
- 2020 - How Did the Bahá’í Faith Become a World Religion?
- 2020 - What Are Bahá’ís Actually Doing to Make the World a Better Place?
- 2020 - Why is the World Center of the Bahá’í Faith in Israel?
References[edit]
- ↑ Baha'i News (1974). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 519, Pg(s) 17. View as PDF.
- ↑ http://bahaischools.ca/maritime/category/archives/page/5/#keynoteaddress
- ↑ Baha'i News (1972). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 497, Pg(s) 22. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1974). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 514, Pg(s) 11. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1976). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 542, Pg(s) 10. View as PDF.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 https://news.bahai.org/story/968/
- ↑ Baha'i News (1980). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 587, Pg(s) 12. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1981). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 604, Pg(s) 13. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i Canada, Vol. 7, No. 1, p 6.
- ↑ http://bahaischools.ca/maritime/category/archives/page/5/#keynoteaddress
