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

10/30/2020

“no requirements in Bahá'í administration for a new believer to sign an enrollment card” - 28 October 1975

There is no requirements in Bahá'í administration for a new believer to sign an enrollment card. It is for each National Spiritual Assembly to decide in the light of conditions in the territory under its jurisdiction how it wishes a declaration of faith to be made. For a number of reasons it has been found in most countries that an enrollment card is a simple and useful way of registering new believers, but this is not a universal requirement... 

- The Universal House of Justice  (From a letter written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to the National Spiritual Assembly of Germany, October 28, 1975; compilation: ‘Lights of Guidance’)