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The gathering is one of the 41 similar regional conferences held, being held or will be held throughout the Baha’i world between November 2008 to March 2009. These conferences, starting with the first one held in Lusaka, Zambia in 1 Nov 2008 and will end with the last one in Kiev, Ukraine on 1 March 2009, were called by the Universal House of Justice, the world governing body of the worldwide Baha’i communities, to provide the opportunity for the Baha’is to celebrate the feats already achieved during the first half of their current Five Year Plan and to deliberate on its current exigencies.

From 30 November till 8 December, two members of the BOAW, Maria Peter and Dayang Genam of Kuching conducted a women’s conference at Bintulu Bahá’í Centre and a course on Guidance for Bahá’í Marriage and Government Laws at Rh. Ngadan, Suai and at Rh. Gerunsin, Sg. Tuyut, Tinjar. Ms. Sim Lee Buay of Bintulu shared a report on the conference held at Bintulu: “A women’s conference was successfully held at Bintulu Bahá’í Centre from 30th November to 1st December…

Rh. Surik, Lemanak:- The first teaching conference cum institutional or cluster meeting for Lemanak area was held over the weekend of 23 and 24 November. The event, attended by almost two hundred believers from eight localities along the Lemanak River was the largest regional gathering ever held in many years. From Kuching, a total ten people including representatives of the National Teaching Committees, Sarawak Bahá’í Institute, Bahá’í Office for the Advancement of Women and Centre for the Advancement of Women and Family came as speakers or observers.