UK: 480,000 souls join worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, 121 new missions established
More than 85 Million people received Ahmadiyya Message of Peace through knocking on doors and electronic and moving billboards in North America; and millions more in Europe, Asia, Austarlia and Africa received the message that Islam stands for loyalty to one's homeland.
The progress of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was laid out by the Khalifa of Islam, His Holiness, Hadhrat Mirz
Individual Ahmadī Muslims, Community delegates and many governments’ representatives have traveled to the UK International Annual Convention from more than 50 countries of the world.
His Holiness detailed the expansion of the community in just about every facet of progress and announced conversion by 480,000 souls to the peaceful Ahmadiyya Islam.
During the last 27 years - since 1984 when Ahmadi activities were banned in Pakistan - the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has expanded to 109 more countries, the Khalifa of Islam declared.
There were at least 1,118 more places in the world that Ahmadi Muslims call home and 839 new communities were formally organized, Hadhrat Ahmad announced.
Sierra Leone is #1 with more than 145 new Ahmadiyya Muslim communities established; with Mali and Nigeria in 2nd and 3rd place - with 57 and 54 new communities - respectively.
In Niger, it was reported, many village chiefs accepted Ahmadiyya Islām and their entire villages' populations followed.
The community added 419 new mosques worldwide during the year which include 298 locations that came to the community due to the mass conversions in many places.
His Holiness announced that the community’s total number of mission houses have now increased to 2,325 with an addition of 121 centers during the current year.
The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has already completed and published the Holy Quran translations in 70 major languages of the world and there are currently 15 more translation in various near-completion stages, it was announced.
In some 50 countries remote areas were reached during 2010 for the purpose of reviving contacts with lost converts and associates and reestablishing the spread of message of peace.
Over 1 million lost converts have been traced and contacted, the Ahmadiyya Mulsim leader announced.
New people converted to Ahmadiyya Islām in some regions after being disappointed by non-Ahmadi clerics who offered no help in areas where Muslims suffered hardships.
More than 85 Million people received Ahmadiyya message of Muslims for Peace through knocking on doors and electronic and moving billboards in North America; and millions more in Europe, Austarlia and Africa received the message that Islam stands for loyalty to one's homeland.ā Masroor Ahmad, the worldwide spiritual head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, before a crowd of 30,000 in the English countryside of Hadeeqatul Mahdī near Alton, UK.
The convention proceedings are being broadcast live from Hadeeqatul Mahdi (Alton, UK) via the worldwide Muslim Television Ahmadiyya International and available via Internet video stream on MTA.TV and a live feed is also available from Ahmadiyya Times top links.
-- By Imran Jattala - Follow Imran Jattala on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ijattala
-- Additional reporting on Twitter by @AtifAhmadS, @NaeemShamim, @KashifMD, @SaiNiz, @SabahatAhmad, @Section298C, @Harris_Zafar and many more. Please follow/use hashtags: #JalsaUK, #KhalifaOfIslam, and #Ahmadiyyat
-- UK: 480,000 souls join Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, 121 new missions established
Monday, July 25, 2011
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