Croatia
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 Bahá’í Summer School of Croatia & Slovenia in Seline, Croatia, 2004.
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| Location of Croatia
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| National Assembly | Croatia | |
| Statistics: | ||
| Total Population | ||
| - | UN 2021[1] | 4,060,135 |
| Bahá'í pop. | ||
| - | Bahá'í source | |
| - | Non-Bahá'í source | 0 |
| History: Firsts |
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| - | Bahá'í to visit | 1928, Martha Root |
| - | Local Assembly | 1992, Zagreb |
| - | National Assembly | 2021 |
| Official Website | https://www.bahai.hr | |
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| Categories: Croatia • People | ||
The Republic of Croatia is a country in the Balkans in Europe. Croatian is the official language and Christianity is the predominant religion.
Croatia has been a Kingdom since the 10th Century and became part of Hungary in the 12th Century and later the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In 1918 it became part of Yugoslavia in the wake of the First World War and remained part of the new nation until becoming independent in 1991.
The Bahá’í Faith was proclaimed in Croatia in the late 1920s with a community later being established in the early 1990s.
History[edit]
Martha Root visited Croatia in 1928 and she delivered five talks in Zagreb including one to the Croatian Women's Club.[2] Restrictions on religion put in place by the government of Yugoslavia made establishing a Bahá’í community in the area impossible and there were no Bahá’ís in Croatia as of 1963.[3]
Following independence religious restrictions were relaxed in Croatia and in 1991 a Regional Teaching Committee for Croatia and Slovenia was established,[4] with a Bahá’í delegation being granted an audience with Croatia's Minister of Foreign Affairs that year.[5] On March 7, 1992, the Local Spiritual Assembly of Zagreb was established which was the first in the country,[5] and in 1994 a joint National Spiritual Assembly for Croatia and Slovenia was established.[6]
In 2006 the National Assembly of Slovenia and Croatia was disbanded at the direction of the Universal House of Justice which instead appointed two three member committees to administrate the Bahá’í community of each country.[7] An independent National Spiritual Assembly of Croatia was established in 2021.[8]
References[edit]
- ↑ "World Population Prospects 2022". population.un.org. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. Retrieved July 17, 2022.
- ↑ M. R. Garis, Martha Root: Lioness at the Threshold, Baha'i Publishing Trust: Wilmette, 1983, p 298
- ↑ Seena Fazel & Graham Hassall, 1998, 100 Years of the Bahá'í Faith in Europe, Baha'i Studies Review, 8, 35-44
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1998). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 20 (1986-1992), Pg(s) 220. View as PDF.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1996). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 23 (1994-1995), Pg(s) 35. View as PDF.
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1996). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 23 (1994-1995), Pg(s) 25. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i Canada, 18(8), p 20
- ↑ https://news.bahai.org/story/1506/
