The growing maturity of a world-wide religious community
which all these processes indicate is further evidenced in the reaching out, by
a number of national communities, to the social and economic life of their
countries, exemplified by the founding of tutorial schools, the inception of
radio stations, the pursuit of rural development programmes and the operation
of medical and agricultural schemes. To
these early beginnings must be added the undoubted skills acquired, as a result
of the Iranian crisis, in dealing with international organizations, national
governments and the mass media -- the very elements of society with which it
must increasingly collaborate toward the realization of peace on earth.
- The Universal House of Justice (1983
Ridvan message)
