A collection of excerpts containing chronologically issued answers to some of the questions submitted by individual believers and institutions

3/08/2017

Efforts at reconciliation during the Year of Waiting - May 24, 1972

…it is highly desirable that further efforts at reconciliation should be made, [during the Year of Waiting] but if no reconciliation is attained, the divorce may be realized. The Assembly has no authority to withhold the divorce on the ground that one party has made no real effort toward reconciliation." 
- The Universal House of Justice  (From a letter dated May 24, 1972, to a National Spiritual Assembly; Developing Distinctive Baha'i Communities, NSA of USA, 1998 edition)