Conscious of 'Abdu'l-Bahá's impassioned plea to promulgate
the oneness of mankind to a spiritually impoverished humanity, a handful of
itinerant Bahá'í' teachers set forth four decades ago, traversed the land
bridge connecting the two continents of the Western Hemisphere and carried the
healing Message of Bahá'u'lláh to the Spanish-American Republics. Their
dedicated efforts were rewarded when, in 1938, the first Local Spiritual
Assembly in Latin America was formed in Mexico City. This initial triumph at
the inception of the first of the teaching plans formulated by Shoghi Effendi
spearheaded other victories leading to the formation of two, then of four
Regional Spiritual Assemblies and ultimately to the establishment of National
Spiritual Assemblies in each of the republics of Latin America and in the
islands of the Caribbean.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a message dated
February 1977; ‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986’)
