Third, the opening of the following thirty-three virgin territories and
islands: Cape Verde Islands, Canary Islands, French Somaliland, French
Togoland, Mauritius, Northern Territories Protectorate, Portuguese Guinea,
Reunion Island, Spanish Guinea, St. Helena, and St. Thomas Island,
assigned to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United
States of America; Ashanti Protectorate, Basutoland, Bechuanaland, Italian
Somaliland, Southern Rhodesia and Swaziland, assigned to the National
Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Persia; French Equatorial Africa,
French West Africa, Morocco (International Zone), Rio de Oro, Spanish
Morocco and Spanish Sahara, assigned to the National Spiritual Assembly of
the Bahá’ís of Egypt and Súdán; Comoro Islands, French Cameroons, Gambia,
Ruanda-Urundi and Socotra Island, assigned to the National Spiritual
Assembly of the Bahá’ís of India, Pákistán and Burma; the British
Cameroons, British Togoland, Madeira and South West Africa, assigned to
the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the British Isles; and
Seychelles Islands, assigned to the National Spiritual Assembly of the
Bahá’ís of ‘Iráq.
Fourth, the translation and publication of Bahá’í literature in the
following thirty-one languages to be undertaken by the National Spiritual
Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the British Isles: Accra, Afrikaans, Aladian,
Ashanti, Banu, Bemba, Bua, Chuana, Gio, Gu, Jieng, Jolof, Kuanyama,
Krongo, Kroo, Luimbi, Malagasy, Nubian, Pedi, Popo, Ronga, Sena, Shilha,
Shona, Sobo, Suto, Wongo, Xosa, Yalunka, Yao and Zulu.
Fifth, the consolidation of the twenty-four following territories already
opened to the Faith in the African continent: Angola, Belgian Congo, Gold
Coast, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanganyika, Uganda and Zululand,
allocated to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the British
Isles; Abyssinia, Algeria, Eritrea, Libya, French Morocco, Somaliland,
Súdán and Tunisia, allocated to the National Spiritual Assembly of the
Bahá’ís of Egypt and Súdán; Madagascar, Mozambique and Zanzibar, allocated
to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of India, Pákistán and
Burma; Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, allocated to the National
Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of Persia; Liberia and South Africa,
allocated to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United
States of America.
Sixth, the establishment, circumstances permitting, of a national Bahá’í
Court in the capital city of Egypt, the recognized center of both the
Islamic and Arab worlds, officially empowered to apply, in matters of
personal status, the laws and ordinances revealed in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas,
the Mother-Book of the Bahá’í Revelation.
Seventh, the incorporation of the three above-mentioned regional national
spiritual assemblies.
Eighth, the establishment by those same national spiritual assemblies of
national Bahá’í endowments.
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