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By the grace of Almighty Allah, after putting efforts for more than a decade,  the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Germany (AMJ) has been granted the status of a religious body which can now enjoy the public rights on same footing as enjoyed by the Christians and the Jews. Ahmadiyya, probably is the first  to be granted such status amongst the Muslim organisations present in Germany. Currently status has been awarded in state of Hessen with the hope to have the same in whole of Germany. It is an historic moment for the whole community. In order to inform about more details AMJ Germany has organised a press conference at 11.00 hours on Thursday, 13.o6.2013 in its national headquarter premises located at Genferstr 11, 60437 Frankfurt am Mian. Further details will follow after the press conference. Follwoing is the German text provided by the concerned department of AMJ Germany. Die Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, die weltweit größte Reformbewegung innerhalb des Islam mit me...

Accra, Ghana: State Funeral for Maulana Abdul Wahab Adam

The Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission of Ghana confirms that Moulvi Dr Abdul Wahab Adam, Ameer of Ghana mission, has passed away. The news is now being  reported  by Ghanian and international media as well. A distinguished scholar and a beloved leader of Ghanian Ahmadi Muslims, Dr Adam leaves behind an entire nation of Ghana in mourning.  إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ The following introduction and brief sketch of Dr Wahab Adam's life is taken from  Jamiatul Mubashireen, Ghana  website. Maulvi Abdul Wahab Bin Adam was born in December, 1944, at Brofeyedur - Adansi, Ashanti Region. After his secondary education at T.I. Ahmadiyya Secondary School (Kumasi), he proceeded to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Seminary and Ahmadiyya Theological University, Rabwah, Pakistan, where he received Diploma in Arabic and Honours Degree in Theology and Islamic Jurisprudence in 1960. After serving as the Brong-Ahafo Regional Missionary of Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission from 1960 - 1969, he ...

An Ahmadiyya Muslim mission house and salat center in Hyderabad, India, was attacked today during Jumma prayers, it has been reported. A band of some 30-plus hooligans barged into the recently opened Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission house located in Basharat Nagar near Falaknuma, and beat up the resident teacher ( Mu'alim ), Imam Imran. Imam, who was struck repeatedly with a cricket bat leaving him badly injured and unconscious, was rushed to a local hospital where he is listed in serious condition. Several eye-witness accounts suggest the attackers were drunk and looking for trouble in the area. Police arrived at the mission house and an FIR (First Information Reports) have been registered. The Ahmadiyya Mission House has been open for about 6 months at the current location which is a Muslim dominated locality. Anti-Ahmadi extremist element in the area has also launched a police report alleging the Imam and community members were spreading wrong faith in the locality whi...

Glasgow:  A UK-based human rights organisation is calling on the authorities in Pakistan to release a 72-year-old doctor who was arrested for ‘posing as a Muslim’ after being secretly filmed by a patient at his surgery. Global Minorities Alliance, a Glasgow-based human rights organisation which advocates for the rights of minority communities the world over, denounced the imprisonment as a further example of Pakistan’s strict blasphemy laws being used to persecute minorities and whip up religious hatred rather than seek justice in a country which is increasingly being divided by violence. Mr Masood Ahmad, a member of the Ahmadiyya community, was charged under Pakistan’s anti-Ahmadiyya blasphemy legislation after a religious leader posing as a patient attended his homeopathy clinic in Lahore and secretly recorded him reading a verse from the Quran. Mr Ahmad, who has dual Pakistani/UK nationality and previously lived in London, was arrested shortly after and is now in pri...

A 17 year old Ahmadi boy, Arsalan Sarwar, was shot fatally in Satellite town area of Rawalpindi yesterday, it is reported. According to the Sadr Anjuman Ahmadiyya Pakistan spokesperson, Saleem-ud Din, the circumstances surrounding the youngster’s killing are not yet clear. Mr Din said he did not want to speculate without full and accurate information. “I will have further details and I will update tomorrow.” "Please bear with me in the meantime and do not speculate without facts," the Ahmadiyya spokesperson further cautioned. According to some unconfirmed reports in the social media, the victim was seen installing decorative lighting on the day of Eid Milad-un-Nabi, the Holy Prophet Muhammad's birthday, when he was killed. Many rights groups say the Ahmadi killings are the direct result of a reckless disregard by Pakistani authorities of the hate-materials routinely published against Ahmadis which openly provoke and incite public to kill Ahmadis. “Governmen...

A one-and-a-half-year-old infant was buried four days after she died from pneumonia in Toba Tek Singh, Punjab province.   The girl, who was from an Ahmadi family, died on December 19, and was taken for burial the following day. At the cemetery the local clerics gathered with approximately fifty men who were armed with sticks and batons. The girl belonged to the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam, declared non Islamic through constitutional amendments. The men refused to let the Ahmadis bury the girl in the common graveyard and prevented them from digging the grave. In Chak 312-JB Kathowali, Gojra, Toba Tek Singh, the Ahmadi and local Muslim population have lived together for six decades after the creation of Pakistan and the graveyard was used by both communities without dispute. However, from the last year the Muslim fundamentalist tried to introduce some families, particularly unmarried persons, who became busy instigating the people to agitate against the Ahmadis in order to dislodge...