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Bahāʾī organization
- In Bahāʾī Faith: Organization
…governing body known as the Universal House of Justice. This body applies the laws promulgated by Bahāʾ Allāh and legislates on matters not covered in the sacred texts. The seat of the Universal House of Justice is in Haifa, Israel, in the immediate vicinity of the shrines of the Bāb…
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…the highest spiritual assembly, the Universal House of Justice, a body elected by the national spiritual assemblies and possessing the sole right to institute new laws or abrogate the old laws laid down in Bahāʾī sacred scriptures.
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