High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Baha'i Faith in Colombia begins with references to the country in Baha'i literature as early as 1916, with Baha'is visiting as early as 1927. The first Colombian joined the religion in 1929 and the first Baha'i Local Spiritual Assembly was elected in Bogota in 1944 with the beginning of the arrival of coordinated pioneers from the United States and achieved an independent National Spiritual Assembly in 1961. By 1963 there were eleven local assemblies. In the 1980s institutions were developed in Colombia that have influenced activities inside and independent of the religion in other countries: FUNDAEC and the Ruhi Institute. The Association of Religion Data Archives (relying mostly on the World Christian Encyclopedia) estimated some 68,000 Baha'is (0.2% of the population) in 2005. Данное издание представляет собой компиляцию сведений, находящихся в свободном доступе в среде Интернет в целом, и в информационном сетевом ресурсе "Википедия"...