Ahmadiyya Times: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Brazil held it 19th Annual Convention on April 14 and 15 at their Mission House in Petrópolis, in the state of Rio de Janeiro.
The two-day event, affectionately known as Jalsa Salana, reported a peak attendance of nearly one hundred people and a message sent by the Khalīfa of Islām, His Holiness Mirzā Masroor Ahmad, the worldwide head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, was read out to the attendees.
His Holiness Ahmad, who resides in London, UK, sent a special 5-pages message for the participants and Ahmadis of Brazil stressing that only morality and lives guided under the boundaries of morality can successfully fight the societal ills of this time.
Hadhrat Ahmad further said that the stated purpose of the mission initiated by the Holy Founder of Islām, the Holy Prophet Muhammd was to help mankind advance in morality.
Several dignitaries from various walks of life, members of other faiths, and some members from interfaith clergy specially attended the convention.
All visitors stressed the need of interfaith dialogue and appreciated the Ahmadiyya Muslim tradition of advancing the cause of interfaith harmony.
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