53. The Bahá’í Pilgrimage Web Site

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The Bahá’í Pilgrimage Web Site

4 January 2005

To all National Spiritual Assemblies

Dear Bahá’í Friends,

53.1 It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of the Bahá’í Pilgrimage Web site. This site, which may be accessed at <http://pilgrimage.bahai.org\>, offers information helpful to believers who anticipate making a pilgrimage or a short visit to the Holy Land and provides an online pilgrimage application form. Those friends who do not have access to the Internet may, of course, continue to send their applications for pilgrimage by post or fax.

53.2 The Web site contains the following:

• Instructions for applying for a Bahá’í pilgrimage to the Holy Land

• An online pilgrimage application form

• A feature that allows the friends to check the status of their pilgrimage applications

• Pilgrimage policies and guidelines

• Answers to frequently asked questions about pilgrimage

• Hotel and accommodation information

• Instructions for applying for other visits to the Bahá’í World Centre

53.3 Your assistance in circulating the news of this Web site to the Bahá’í friends in your community would be greatly appreciated.

With loving Bahá’í greetings,

Department of the Secretariat