Claim: The National Spiritual Assemblies of the Baháʼí Faith, a new religion that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people, has grown from 7 in 1928 to 179 in 2006 and its members reside in 127,381 localities (as of 2001) worldwide.
Evidence: The 1928 issue of The Bahá'í World listed nine National Spiritual Assemblies: Persia (Iran); the United States and Canada; Germany; Great Britain and Ireland; India and Burma; Egypt; Turkistan; Caucasus; and Iraq.