[12] In 1959, Knight of Baháʼu'lláh Brigitte Hasselblatt moved to Turku from the Shetland Islands and married Milton Lundblade.
[13] After living some years there she moved to the United States but returned again to Finland to Salo in the summer of 1984[14] (in the meantime their first son Laurence Lundblade would later be one of the initial authors of the e-mail client Pine.
[15] The members of the National Assembly who participated in the election of the Universal House of Justice in 1963 were Godratollah Bidardel, Greta Sofia Jankko-Badeau, Aminda Josephine Kruka, Mozaffar Namdar, Gudrun Ofstegaard, Maija-Liisa Ravola, Sirkka Inkeri Salmi, Mailis Kaarina Talvenheimo and Habibu'llah Zabihian.
In the late 1980s[26] a group of Baháʼí musicians based in Naantali[27] composed an album, Pohjantähti (North Star) simultaneously in Finnish[28] and English[29] out of a quest to be culturally creative instead of merely translating foreign interpretations of the religion into song.
[32] This relationship between national and civic events continued when in 2002 the Baháʼí community of Lappeenranta registered their regularly held public meeting for World Religion Day.
This discussion was on the subject of world peace with participants of local Christian, civic and Muslim groups building on a decade of efforts.
[7] The same year the government of Finland co-sponsored a resolution of the United Nations which was passed by a vote of 73 to 49, with 50 abstentions, by the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly expressing "serious concern" over continuing violations of human rights in Iran—and mentions specifically "continuing discrimination" against Baháʼís and other religious minorities.
Most recently, in 2003, the play The Seven Valleys was premiered at the Naantali Theatre and reviewed by Pentti Narvanen of the newspaper Rannikkoseudun sanomat.
Gutsy Go aims to give young people living in neighborhoods with bad reputations the tools they need to improve their communities.
Hartmut Grossmann was born in Germany, was a lecturer and head of the German Department of the Translators' Training Institute at University of Joensuu in Savonlinna.
He has served on the National Spiritual Assemblies of the Baháʼís of Germany and of Finland, on the International Teaching Centre and then ultimately on the Universal House of Justice.