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- The Baháʼí Faith was formed in the late 19th-century Middle East by Baháʼu'lláh, and teaches that an official line of succession of leadership is part of a divine covenant that assures unity and prevents schism. There are no major schisms in the Baháʼí Faith, and attempts to form alternative leadership have either become extinct with time or have remained in extremely small numbers that are shunned by the majority. The largest extant sect is related to Mason Remey's claim to leadership in 1960, which has continued with two or three groups numbering at most 200 collectively, mostly in the United States. About a dozen efforts have been made to form sects in the history of the Baháʼí Faith. The first major challenge to leadership came after Baháʼu'lláh died in 1892, with ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's half-brother Mírzá Muhammad ʻAlí opposing him. Later, Shoghi Effendi faced opposition from his family, as well as some individual Baháʼís. When Shoghi Effendi passed in 1957, there was no clear successor, and the Hands of the Cause led a transition to the Universal House of Justice, elected in 1963. This transition was opposed by Mason Remey, who claimed to be the successor of Shoghi Effendi in 1960, but was excommunicated by Hands of the Cause because his claim had no basis in authoritative Baháʼí writings. Other, more modern attempts at schism have come from opposition to the Universal House of Justice and attempts to reform or change doctrine. Those that have been excommunicated have consistently protested against the majority group and, in some cases, claimed that the excommunicated represent the true Baháʼí Faith and the majority are Covenant-breakers. Some Baháʼís have claimed that there have been no divisions in the Baháʼí Faith, or that none will survive or become a threat to the main body of Baháʼís.(See also: Baháʼí/Bábí split)
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- 巴哈伊信仰的的领导权被挑战的情况，常常发生在其核心人物去世的时候。大多数巴哈伊跟随自巴哈欧拉、阿博都巴哈、守基·阿芬第、至世界正义院的这一延续的信仰核心。分裂出的教派一直没有吸引成规模的信徒。从这个意义上来说，巴哈伊信仰只有一个主要的分支，分裂出的团体或者随着时间而自行消散、或者人数一直维持在一个很小数目上，大约只占所有500万巴哈伊的千分之一。而全球巴哈伊社区一直维持其团结。 巴哈伊文献将信仰核心的继承人称为保持巴哈伊统一的次约。那些挑战被广泛接受的的信仰核心的人被其他巴哈伊信徒称作，并不与其来往。 (zh)
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- The National Assembly of France and about 100 others followed Remey. (en)
- [Remey] acquired 100 followers in the United States, some dozens in Pakistan, and a score in Europe ... The Remey movement continues to this day as two or three groups that maintain little contact with each other, are active on the World Wide Web, and probably comprise a few hundred members collectively. (en)
- They call themselves Orthodox Bahais, and their following is small – a mere 100 members, with the largest congregation, a total of 11, living in Roswell, N.M. (en)
- the exiled Baha'is constitute only 5000 to 8000 Baha'is worldwide according to some estimates. Some consider even those numbers to be excessively exaggerated. (en)
- Mason Remey gained the support of a small but widespread group of Baháʼís for his claim to be the second Guardian of the Faith . Most of his long-term followers were Americans. (en)
- the [Orthodox Baháʼí Faith] in the United States is a very small religious community, composed of only about forty persons (en)
- the Orthodox Baha'i Faith, a group that claims to have active centers in Great Britain, Germany, Pakistan and the United States. (en)
- There are a few hundred Americans who claim to follow Mason Remey (en)
- Total membership in the various Remeyite groups numbers only in the thousands. (en)
- the Orthodox Baháʼí Faith has perhaps 100 members, and the various other groups together probably total another 100 at most. (en)
- Rejected by his fellow Hands and the overwhelming majority of Bahá'ís, Remey was expelled from the Bahá'í Faith. Nevertheless, his claim did gain significant minority support in some countries, notably France, the United States and Pakistan. However, Remey's followers soon became divided into a number of antagonistic factions, and by the time of his death , the number of Bahá'ís who recognized his claims had greatly diminished. A few Remeyite splinter-groups continue to operate in the United States (en)
- About 15 Baháʼís initially followed Remey and were accordingly themselves declared Covenant breakers. (en)
- Remey died in 1974, having appointed a third Guardian, but the number of adherents to the Orthodox faction remains extremely small. Although successful in Pakistan, the Remeyites seem to have attracted no followers in Iran. Other small groups have broken away from the main body from time to time, but none of these has attracted a sizeable following. (en)
- "the Baha'i Under the Provisions of the Covenant ... is headquartered in Missoula, Montana, and claims a membership approaching 150,000, although this is almost certainly an exaggeration." (en)
- Remey succeeded in gathering a few supporters, mainly in the United States, France, and Pakistan ... The followers of Remey have decreased in importance over the years, especially as they fragmented into contending factions ... [the group led by Joel Marangella] number no more than one hundred ... Small Remeyite groups are now confined to a few states in the United States. (en)
- Today the Baháʼí community has some 5 million members; the Orthodox Baháʼí Faith perhaps 100; and the Baháʼís Under the Provisions of the Covenant several dozen, who are in turn divided into two sects, one of which appears to be inactive. (en)
- Some American believers ... followed Remey ... When Remey died, several of his lieutenants vied for the position of "third" Guardian, dividing his followers into numerous sects, none of which have grown ... [no Baháʼí schism] has succeeded in garnering substantial support, with most groups eventually dying out altogether. (en)
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