Believers throughout the world have striven to pursue the aim of advancing the process of entry by troops.

That the Bahá’í world has succeeded in multiplying the number of devotional meetings sixfold over the past five years, that classes for children and junior youth have increased more than threefold during the same period, that the number of study circles worldwide has surpassed eleven thousand—these provide a measure of the extraordinary strength the believers can draw upon in shouldering the responsibility entrusted to them.

(The Universal House of Justice, 27 December 2005, Message to to the Conference of the Continental Boards of Counsellors)