THE UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE 1 November 2010 To the Baha'is of the World Dear Bahd’ Friends, ‘The Day of the Covenant, 26 November 2010, marks the opening of a new five-year term of service for the members of the Continental Boards of Counsellors for the Protection and Propagation of the Faith. It is with great joy that we announce the names of the Counsellors appointed for the coming term, whose number remains at eighty-one. AERICA (19 Counsellors): Selam Ahderom (Trustee of the Continental Fund), Ramchand Coonjul, Mariama Ousmane Djaouga, Maziar Djoneidi, Clément Thyrell Feizouré, Agatha Gaisie-Nketsiah, Kini Musalo Geoghegan, Amina Jaouane, ‘Townshend Lihanda, Sehla Masunda, Katalayi Mbombo, Maina Mkanda Aggrey Zeyazi Munubi, Zowé Tiba Nganyadé, Albert Nshisu Nsunga, Helen Otia, Ahmad Parsa, Christopher Kiprotich Songok, Tiati 4 Zock THE AMERICAS (19 Counsellors): José Luis Almeida, Ann Boyles, Ronny Brenes, Beatriz Carmona, Daniel Duhart, Jorge Henrique Guerreiro (Trustee of the Continental Fund), Ana Hilda de Lemus, Alison Milston, Borna Noureddin, Garth Pollock, Ganesh Ramsahai, Carmen Elisa de Sadeghian, Pejman Samoori, Bernardino Sanchez, Daniel Scott, Navid Serrano, Leticia de Solano, Anita Vandella Williams, Holly Woodard ASIA (20 Counsellors): Jamil Aliyev, Enkhdelger Banzragch, Jabbar Eidelkhani, Bijan Farid, Nadera Fikri, Gloria Javid, Lee Lee Loh Ludher, Tarrant Matthew Mahony, Khumukcham Satish Meetei, Delafruz Nassimova, Lori McLaughlin Noguchi, Khursheda Porsayeva, Foad Reyhani (Trustee of the Continental Fund), Rajan Sawant, Omid Seioshanseian, Zebiniso Solieva, George Soraya, Ircham Hadi Sujadmiko, Mehranguiz Farid Tehrani, Myint Zaw Oo AUSTRALASIA (11 Counsellors): Sohayla Asari, Ritia Kamauti Bakineti, Soheyla Bolouri, Kirk Johnson, Dinesh Kumar-Mills, Jalal Rodney Mills, Uvileiuluwehi Pimental, Kessia Aisoli Ruh, Tessa Serine, Henry Tamashiro, Alan Wilcox (Trustee of the Continental Fund) EUROPE (12 Counsellors): Naisan Azimi, Uta von Both (Trustee of the Continental Fund), Olga Daradur, Antonella Demonte, Andrej Donoval, Aisté Elijio, Shirin Fozdar-Foroudi, Zoraida Garcia Garro, Saba Khabirpour, Bernard Lo Cascio, Firouzeh Moghbel-Naderi, Paul Verheij Baha‘i World Centre * P.O. Box 155 * 31001 Haifa, Israel Tel: 972 (4) 835 8358 + Fax: 972 (4) 835 8280 + Email: secretariat@bwe.org,To the Bahé’ts of the World 1 November 2010 Page 2 The following believers, who have earned our abiding gratitude for their self-sacrificing contributions to the progress of the Cause, are being relieved of the duties of membership on the Boards of Counsellors: Farzin Aghdasi, Eugene S. Andrews, Fadel Ardakani, Fevziye Baki, Nidavanur Baskaran, Beatrice Benson, Desmond Godfrey Browne, David Chittleborough, Irene Chung, Vivien Craig, Olga Daynovskaya, Ehsanollah Hemmat, David Huang, Nadia Jaberi-Koppold, Eric Kingston, Deborah Kirton, Eddy Lutchmaya, Enos Makhele, Antnio Gabriel Marques Filho, Tsatsi Othaniel Mfete, Ruth Amos Mnyampi, Hannu Tapani Olkkonen, Jaya Gopan Ramasamy, Lateef Rasheed, Manijeh Reyhani, Ihan Sezgin, Crystal Baker Shoaie, Marilyn Smith, Rodrigo Tomés, Gerardo Vargas, Robin White, Fereidoun Yazdani, Sohtab Youssefian We are confident that these dear friends will remain a source of inspiration and strength to the believers as they continue their dedicated efforts for the advancement of the Faith in the coming years. We shall offer supplications at the Sacred Threshold on their behalf, that divine blessings may surround their every endeavour in the path of service to Baha’u'Ilih. In our recent Ridvan message, we announced to the Baha’i world the achievement of the goal of the current Five Year Plan—to establish no less than 1,500 intensive programmes of growth worldwide—and outlined in significant detail the developments that have taken place in the Baha’ community at the level of culture over the last decade and a half, We expressed the hope that, during this final year of the Plan, the friends would bend their energies towards strengthening the pattern of expansion and consolidation that has now been everywhere established, in preparation for the Five Year Plan to be launched at Ridvén 2011, We are calling the Counsellors from all continents to the Baha’i World Centre for a conference from 28 December 2010 to 1 January 2011, during which deliberations will be held on the features of the next Five Year Plan and on the decisive role the Counsellors are to play, together with their auxiliaries, in the critical period leading up to its launch and in the years that follow. It is our ardent prayer that the Blessed Beauty may vouchsafe unto these eighty-one souls His unfailing protection and unceasing confirmations as they arise to take up the high duties to which they have been called. Fhe Clumirernk (Hor Tee