April 12. On this date in 1912, during ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's North American tour, a newspaper article in The Evening World of New York introduced him as "head of one of the newest and most thriving religions in the world, numbering 20,000,000 souls among his followers, of whom several hundred souls are in New York."

April 12. On this date in 1912, during ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's North American tour, a newspaper article in The Evening World of New York introduced him as "head of one of the newest and most thriving religions in the world, numbering 20,000,000 souls among his followers, of whom several hundred souls are in New York."