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The Bahá'í Regional Conferences 2008-2009 started 1–2 November 2008 in Zambia and finished 1 March 2009 in Ukrain. The biggest European conference was the Bahá'í Frankfurt Regional Conference, the most important Asian conference was hold in Lotus Temple of India.

The conference aim was to celebrate the achievements in community-building activities and make plans for future work.

The Frankfurt Regional Conference

Main article: Bahá'í Frankfurt Regional Conference (2009)

More than 4600 people visited the Frankfurt Regional Conference on 7–8 February 2009. The event was hold in the Congress Hall of the Messe Frankfurt. About 2000 visitors went to Frankfurt from Germany. 800 from France, and 350 each from the Netherlands and Switzerland. Lot of bahai went there from Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, and Slovakia. From Hungary 69 participants travelled there. Mr. Stephen Birkland and Mrs. Joan Lincoln represented the Universal House of Justice at the conference, they are both members of the International Teaching Center.

Regional Conferences all around the world

The Bahá'í Conferences were hold all around the world, places like:

Lusaka, Zambia Nakuru, Kenya Johannesburg, South Africa Bangui, Central African Republic Bangalore, India Uvira, Democratic Republic of the Congo Quito, Ecuador New Delhi, India Kolkata, India Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo Antofagasta, Chile Manila, Philippines

Yaoundé, Cameroon Portland, United States Chicago, United States Atlanta, United States Almaty, Kazakhstan Stamford, United States Dallas, United States Los Angeles, United States Kuching, Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia London, United Kingdom Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire Toronto, Canada

Guadalajara, Mexico Lae, Papua New Guinea Vancouver, Canada Managua, Nicaragua Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Sydney, Australia Madrid, Spain Auckland, New Zealand Battambang, Cambodia Frankfurt, Germany Padua, Italy Istanbul, Turkey Baku, Azerbaijan Kiev, Ukraine

External links

• Regional Conferences of the Five Year Plan, news.bahai.org
• The Frankfurt Regional Conference, news.bahai.org

Bahá'í Frankfurt Regional Conference (2009)

Bahá'í Frankfurt Regional Conference

The Bahá'í Frankfurt Regional Conference (2009) was part of the Bahá'í Regional Conferences 2008-2009.

More than 4600 people went to the Frankfurt Regional Conference on 7–8 February 2009. The event was hold in the Congress Hall of the Messe Frankfurt. About 2000 visitors went to Frankfurt from Germany. 800 from France, and 350 each from the Netherlands and Switzerland. Lot of bahai went there from Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Poland, Serbia, and Slovakia. From Hungary 69 participants travelled there. Mr. Stephen Birkland and Mrs. Joan Lincoln represented the Universal House of Justice at the conference, they are both members of the International Teaching Center.

The Universal House of Justice called upon the participants to press on in their countries with an “unflinching resolve and a joyful spirit, undeterred by the restrictive conventions of the society that surrounds you.” Mr. Birkland said: “think about the idea of pressing on with a joyful spirit. We have to be happy. We cannot be distracted by the events of the world. The power to change the world is with us.”

The conference language was english, but the speeches was translated to German, French, Czech, Polish, and Hungarian. About 270 children visited the Bahá'í Frankfurt Regional Conference. A children group released 250 helium-filled balloons near the Bahá'í House of Worship in Langenhain.