Sucre, Bolivia

Sucre
City in Bolivia
National Bolivian Bahá’í Conference, Sucre, 1971.
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 -  Pioneers 1946, Gwenne Sholtis 
 -  Local Assembly 1947 
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Sucre is a city in Bolivia.

History[edit]

In 1944 Virginia Orbison visited Sucre where she was able to meet with many prominent artists, scientists, and businesspeople in the city and proclaimed the Faith to them.[1] Flora Hottes also visited the city during her extensive teaching work throughout Bolivia that year.[2] In 1946 Gwenne Sholtis settled in the city which resulted in the city having a community of four Bahá’ís,[3] with four more people declaring after her arrival and a Bahá’í Group being established.[4] In December 1946 Eve Nicklin pioneered to Sucre,[5] and in early 1947 Arturo and Yvonne Cuellar and Flora Hottes assisted in teaching efforts in the city resulting in a Local Spiritual Assembly being established that year.[6]

As of 1951 the Assembly of Sucre had lapsed with a goal of the Bolivian Bahá’í community being its re-establishment and it was successfully re-established that year.[7][8] In late 1959 efforts to proclaim the Faith to native Bolivians found success in Sucre.[9]

In 1962 a National Bahá’í Congress of Bolivia was held in Sucre and attended by three hundred people,[10] with another National Congress and Youth Conference being held in the city in 1966.[11] As of 1968 the Sucre Bahá’í community was made up entirely of university students with the oldest member being twenty-four.[12][13] In 1969 Bahá’í radio programmes on the Faith were broadcast three times a week for a period of five months on Sucre stations and copies of the Bahá’í Human Rights proclamation were presented to all Justices of the Supreme Court in Sucre.[14]

The Bahá’í community of Sucre had secured a Bahá’í Center by 1970,[15] and that year Hand of the Cause Enoch Olinga visited the city.[16] In 1971 a major Bahá’í conference attended by Continental Counsellors, Auxiliary Board members, and National Spiritual Assembly members from Bolivia and Peru was held in Sucre with twenty-five people declaring during the conference. A youth mass teaching campaign was held after the conference securing thirty declarations in a short time.[17]

In 1982 a Bahá’í conference for indigenous believers was held in Sucre which was attended by two hundred people with Counsellor Athos Costas speaking at the event.[18] In 1984 Bahá’í Bruce Fox founded the Badi School, a Bahá’í inspired primary school, in Sucre which became known for utilizing innovative educational techniques,[19] and by 1987 it had eight hundred students.[20] In July 1988 a Seminar for Indigenous Believers was held in Sucre.[21]

In 1999 an Indigenous Teaching Conference was held in Sucre which received a letter from the Universal House of Justice.[22]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ Baha'i News (1944). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 171, Pg(s) 14. View as PDF.
  2. ↑ Baha'i News (1944). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 172, Pg(s) 6. View as PDF.
  3. ↑ Baha'i News (1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 188, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
  4. ↑ Baha'i News (1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 189, Pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
  5. ↑ Baha'i News (1946). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 190, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  6. ↑ Baha'i News (1947). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States and Canada. No 194, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  7. ↑ Baha'i News (1951). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 239, Pg(s) 8. View as PDF.
  8. ↑ Baha'i News (1951). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 246, Pg(s) 12. View as PDF.
  9. ↑ Baha'i News (1960). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 349, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
  10. ↑ Baha'i News (1962). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 375, Pg(s) 14. View as PDF.
  11. ↑ Baha'i News (1966). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 422, Pg(s) 6. View as PDF.
  12. ↑ Baha'i News (1968). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 444, Pg(s) 10. View as PDF.
  13. ↑ Baha'i News (1970). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 470, Pg(s) 7. View as PDF.
  14. ↑ Baha'i News (1969). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 456, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  15. ↑ Baha'i News (1970). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 474, Pg(s) 3. View as PDF.
  16. ↑ Baha'i News (1970). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 474, Pg(s) 4. View as PDF.
  17. ↑ Baha'i News (1971). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 489, Pg(s) 18. View as PDF.
  18. ↑ Baha'i News (1982). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 611, Pg(s) 16. View as PDF.
  19. ↑ Baha'i News (1988). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 685, Pg(s) 10. View as PDF.
  20. ↑ Baha'i News (1988). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 692, Pg(s) 12. View as PDF.
  21. ↑ Baha'i News (1989). National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States. No 704, Pg(s) 16. View as PDF.
  22. ↑ 20 August 1999 message from the Universal House of Justice to Friends gathered at the Indigenous Teaching Conference in Sucre, Bolivia
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