ninety, whilst
the number of African languages into which Baha'i literature has been and
is being translated exceeds fifty.

The total number of the European, the African, the Asiatic and
American-Indian languages into which Baha'i literature has been and is
being translated is one hundred and sixty-seven, of which fifty-five are
among those included in the provisions of the Ten-Year Plan, and
twenty-four are supplementary languages into which the translation of
Baha'i literature has been spontaneously undertaken by the indefatigable
band of pioneers and new converts in Africa, in South East Asia, in the
South Pacific Islands and in the Antipodes.

The number of incorporated Baha'i national and local Spiritual Assemblies
has now reached one hundred and forty, seventy-five of which are located
in the United States of America, the latest additions to this steadily
mounting list in other continents being the Assemblies of London and
Manchester in the British Isles; of Ciudad Trujillo in the Dominican
Republic; of Kuching in Sarawak; of Jakarta in Indonesia; of Helsinki in
Finland and of San Juan in Puerto Rico.

ACTIVITIES AT THE WORLD CENTER

In the Holy Land, the Center and Pivot around which the institutions of a
world-encompassing Administrative Order revolve, steps have been taken for
the preparation of a Synopsis, and for the Codification of the Laws, of
the Most Holy Book, the Kitab-i-Aqdas, the Mother-Book of the Baha'i
Revelation, as an essential prelude to the eventual translation and
publication of its entire text.

A Fund has been inaugurated in anticipation of the adoption of preliminary
measures for the ultimate construction of Baha'u'llah's Sepulcher in the
heart of the Haram-i-Aqdas recently established in the plain of Akka.

The international Baha'i endowments on Mt. Carmel have been greatly
enhanced by the signature of a contract with the Israeli Authorities for
the acquisition of an area of thirty-six thousand square meters, situated
on the promontory of Mt. Carmel, overlooking the Cave of Elijah, as well
as the spot sanctified by the footsteps of Baha'u'llah and associated with
the revelation of the Tablet of Carmel, for the price of one hundred and
eight thousand dollars, to serve as the site for the first
Ma_sh_riqu'l-A_dh_kar of the Holy Land, the entire sum having been donated
by Amelia Collins, Hand of the Cause and outstanding benefactress of the
Faith.

The vast area surrounding t