Santa Cruz de la Sierra
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 Bahá’í Summer School in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 1969.
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Santa Cruz de la Sierra, commonly referred to as Santa Cruz, is a city in Bolivia. A Bahá’í community was established in the city in the 1960s and two Bahá’í inspired universities have been established in it.
History[edit]
In 1958 recent declarant Andrés Jachakollo considered pioneering to Santa Cruz to establish a Bahá’í community,[1] and late that year Athos Costas visited the city where he gave a forty minute talk on the Faith which was broadcast on a local radio station.[2]
In the early 1960's a Bahá’í community was established in Santa Cruz and it was quickly consolidated with a Local Spiritual Assembly being established in 1964,[3] and the Annual Bolivian Summer School being held in the city in 1965.[4] The community was struggling to maintain momentum by 1968 with American Bahá’í Greg Dahl visiting to assist the community during the year.[5] In 1969 the Bolivian Bahá’í community set itself the goal of launching mass teaching in Santa Cruz by 1970,[6] and another summer school was held in the city that year.[7]
Mass teaching was adopted and in March 1970 twenty-four youth declared in Santa Cruz marking a sudden increase in growth of the cities Bahá’í community.[8] By 1971 one thousand people had declared in Santa Cruz through mass teaching.[9]
In 1984 the Bahá’í inspired university Universidad Núr was established in Santa Cruz beginning its first academic year offering undergraduate courses in 1985. It went on to become the first University of Bolivia to offer graduate programs in 1994 and in 1996 began training people to serve as community development agents across rural Bolivia.[10][11] In 1989 the Bahá’í community of Santa Cruz began establishing Bahá’í children's classes.[12]
In 1995 the Universidad Técnica Privada de Santa Cruz, a private university which included Bahá’í teachings in its constitution, was inaugurated in Santa Cruz.[13]
References[edit]
- ↑ Baha'i News (1958). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 324, Pg(s) 10. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1958). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 333, Pg(s) 6. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1964). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 401, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1965). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 406, Pg(s) 6. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1968). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 442, Pg(s) 9. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1969). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 464, Pg(s) 2. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1970). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 470, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1970). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 471, Pg(s) 21. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1971). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 482, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
- ↑ https://www.universidadesonline.com.bo/universidades/universidad-nur
- ↑ Baha'i News (1988). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 685, Pg(s) 10. View as PDF.
- ↑ Baha'i News (1989). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 697, Pg(s) 15. View as PDF.
- ↑ The Bahá’í World, An International Record. (1996). Bahá’í World Centre. Haifa. Volume 23 (1994-1995), Pg(s) 122. View as PDF.
