Bahá'í Faith in the Marshall Islands the Marshall Islands, went from 2% to 11.5% according to Bahá'í sources. Similar growth rates are reported in some other Pacific nations. But as early as 2001 the US State Dept estimated the Bahá'ís at 0.6 percent or about 400. However almost at the same time the 2000 World Christian Encyclopedia estimation of a Bahá'í population was just over 1,000, or 1.50%. Bahá'í Faith in the Marshall Islands The Bahá'í Faith in the Marshall Islands begins after 1916 with a mention by `Abdu'l-Bahá, then head of the religion, that Bahá'ís should take the religion there. The first Bahá'í to pioneer
Bahá'í Faith in the Marshall Islands population are just over 1,000, or 1.50% in 2000. `Abdu'l-Bahá, head of the religion from 1892 to 1921, mentioned the Marshall Islands among the places Bahá'ís should take the religion to. He wrote a series of letters, or tablets, to the followers of the religion in the United States in 1916-1917; these letters were compiled together in the book titled Tablets of the Divine Plan. The seventh of the tablets mentioned taking the Bahá'í Faith to the Marshall Islands and was written on 11 April 1916, but was delayed in being presented in the United States until 1919 — after