NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Hand of the Cause John Robarts

In 1957, Shoghi Effendi appointed John Robarts a Hand of the Cause of God, the highest office to which an individual could be appointed in the Baha'i Faith. His travels as a Hand included Southern Rhodesia, Morocco, Liberia, Cameroon, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Hawaii, Jamaica, Iceland, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Fiji, Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, New Hebrides, and Western Samoa.

He died in Rawdon, Quebec, on 18 June 1991.

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The Baha'i Community of Canada : La communaute baha'ie du Canada (853 words)
	John Aldham Robarts was born on 2 November 1901 in Waterloo, Ontario, to Aldham Wilson Robarts and Rachel Mary Montgomery Campbell Robarts.
	John Robart's father was manager of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce in Port Arthur (now Thunder Bay), and it was here that John Robarts and his two older sisters completed their elementary schooling.
	John travelled to many countries, but perhaps his most significant journey was the one he and Audrey Robarts made to Bechuanaland in Africa--a trip inspired by the Guardian in October 1953.

Hands of the Cause - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (395 words)
	The Hands of the Cause of God are a select group of Bahá'ís, appointed for life, whose main function is to propagate and protect the Bahá'í Faith on the international level.
	There were fifty Hands of the Cause in all, four named by Bahá'u'lláh, four by `Abdu'l-Bahá and forty-two by Shoghi Effendi (including ten posthumously).
	Second Appointment of Hands of the Cause - Announcement of the second contingent, appointing 7 new hands in 1952.

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