The International Teaching Centre is an international Baháʼí institution based at the Baháʼí World Centre in Israel. Its duties are to stimulate and coordinate the Continental Board of Counsellors and assist the Universal House of Justice in matters relating to the teaching and protection of the Bahá’í Faith. Publications of the International Teaching Centre pertain directly to these duties. The institution was established in 1973 to provide for the extension into the future of functions with which the Hands of the Cause had been endowed.