When in 1949 the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is
of Canada was formed it was able to secure formal recognition of its status
under civil law through a special Act of Parliament -- a victory which Shoghi
Effendi hailed as "an act wholly unprecedented in the annals of the Faith
in any country, in either East or West". (‘Messages to Canada’)
(Adapted
from ‘Century of Light’, a statement prepared at the Baha’i World center,
commissioned by The Universal House of Justice)
