New South African church celebrates drinking alcohol
Source: Associated Press By ANDREW MELDRUM ORANGE FARM, South Africa (AP) — Dressed in a red robe and a gold-trimmed bishop’s miter, the clergyman pours whiskey into his cupped hand […]
What It’s Like To Live Through Cape Town’s Massive Water Crisis
Source: Time By ARYN BAKER Photographs by MIKHAEL SUBOTZKY and JOHNNY MILLER for TIME I knew we were in trouble when I found myself Googling dry composting toilets. That was on Feb. 1, just after […]
Video: Could farming rhinos save them from extinction?
Source: BBC News Rhino horn is worth more than gold or heroin by weight, so poachers often kill the animals and cut off their horns. It’s illegal to sell the […]
Why South Africa is laying a welcome mat for Muslim visitors
Source: CNN Cape Town, South Africa (CNN) – With more than one million visitors in 2016, Cape Town already ranks highly among the most popular destinations in Africa. But South Africa’s legislative capital […]
A global snapshot of same-sex marriage
Source: Pew Research Center BY DAVID MASCI AND DREW DESILVER With the Australian Parliament’s recent passage of legislation legalizing gay marriage, 26 countries now permit gays and lesbians to wed. And if a recent high […]
Video: A closer look at ‘3.67m-year-old’ human skeleton
Source: BBC News It took 20 years to excavate, clean and put together Little Foot, whose skeleton was found in caves north of Johannesburg. Its exact age is debated, but […]
Ghana: Ahmadiyya Muslim Maulvi Muhammed Bin-Salih stresses for stronger Pan-African movement to unify & uplift Africans
Source: http://www.graphic.com.gh/news/politics/stronger-pan-african-movement-vital-for-african-unity.html | SEBASTIAN SYME The Ameer and Missionary in-charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Ghana, Maulvi Muhammed Bin-Salih, has stressed the need for a stronger Pan-African movement to unify and uplift the people of African descent in the diaspora to keep stronger ties with members in the rest of the […]
South African child ‘virtually cured’ of HIV
Source: BBC News By James Gallagher Health and science reporter, BBC News, Paris Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionThe child caught the infection from its mother around the time of birth A […]
Gambia: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat donates food, clothing, shoes & praying mats to disaster victims in Bureng
Source: https://observergm.com/ahmadiyya-donates-to-disaster-victims-in-bureng/ The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat in The Gambia recently donated 50 bags of rice, clothing, shoes and praying mats to disaster victims at Bureng village, in the Lower River Region. The package also includes a day’s free medical treatment from the doctors of the Ahmadiyya hospitals in Tallinding and Farafenni. […]
Ghana: Deputy Minister of Education & MP for Cape Coast Mrs Ayisi commends Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission for efforts in promoting education in the country
Source: http://www.ghananewsagency.org/education/parents-urged-to-train-children-to-be-time-conscious-119358 | By Afedzi Abdullah/Isaac Arkoh, GNA Cape Coast, July 8, GNA – Dr David Essaw, a Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Development Studies of the University of Cape Coast (UCC), has admonished parents to inculcate effective time management and consciousness in their children. Quality time management, he noted was […]
Nigeria: “Real enemy of Nigeria is injustice, corruption, fraud — Leader of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Dr Mashud Fashola
Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/06/real-enemy-nigeria-injustice-corruption-not-tribe-ahmadiyya/ By Wahab Abdulah If you think ethnic or tribal differences is the cog in the wheel of Nigeria as a nation, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Nigeria has a different view of this. In its Eid-el-Fitr message to Muslims in Nigeria made available to Vanguard, the leader of the Jama’at, […]
Ghana: Akyem Achiase Chief Lauds the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Source: http://www.mkaghana.org/akyem-achiase-chief-lauds-the-ahmadiyya-muslim-community/ | Story by Malek Appiah Affum, Qaid Ilaqa, Eastern Region The Chief of Akyem Achiase Dasebre Gyenin Kantan II has described the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community as peace loving and disciplined Muslims who do not subscribe to violence. Dasebre Gyenin Kantan II who is also the acting Nifahene of the Akyem […]
Ghana: Religious bodies can’t be blamed for moral degeneration, says Suleman A. Sakyi, Circuit President of Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission
Source: http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/religion/Religious-bodies-can-t-be-blamed-for-the-continued-moral-degeneration-Suleman-Adam-Sakyi-554241 Mr Suleman Adam Sakyi, Abura Circuit President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, has said religious bodies cannot be solely blamed for the continued moral degeneration, especially among the youth in the country. He said but for the stringent efforts by the religious groups, things would have been worse in […]
Ghana: Ahmadiyya Muslim Imam Saeed Abass Urges Muslims to follow true teachings of the Holy Qu’ran
Source: http://www.ghananewsagency.org/social/muslims-urged-to-exhibit-the-tenets-of-islam-118837 | By Afedzi Abdullah/Isaac Arkoh, GNA At the Cape Coast Stadium, where the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission converged, Imam Saeed Abass, Abura Circuit Imam of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, urged the gathering to remain true to the virtues of Islam. He said fasting is a religious exercise, which draws people closer […]
Gambia: Ahmadiyya Muslim Amir Baba F Trawally’s Message: Tolerance, Mercy & Unity — A Quality Of Righteousness
Source: http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/eidul-fitr-message-tolerance-mercy-and-unitya-quality-of-righteousness EIDUL FITR MESSAGE: TOLERANCE, MERCY AND UNITY—A QUALITY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS All praise belongs to Allah Almighty Who has blessed us with the Holy Month of Ramadan and has enabled us to come to the end of this year’s Ramadan. He has prescribed the fasting that we may attain Taqwa […]
Photo News: Ahmadiyya Nigeria Honours Archbishop John Onaiyekan
Source: http://worldtopnewsng.com/ahmadiyya-nigeria-honours-archbishop-john-onaiyekan/
Gambia’s govt mute on sectarian tensions between Sunni & Ahmadi Muslims
Source: https://gambia.smbcgo.com/2017/05/26/gambias-govt-mute-on-sectarian-divide-between-sunni-and-ahmadi-muslims/ | Written by Sam Phatey Gambia’s government remain quite over sectarian tensions that nearly turned violent over burial rights in a suburb outside the capital, Banjul. Ahmadis Muslims have claimed to be targets of attacks inspired by Sunni clerics backed by the powerful Supreme Islamic Council amid call for their […]
Ghana: Central East Region branch of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Organisation holds 35th Annual Regional Rally (IJTEMAA)
Source: https://www.modernghana.com/news/777639/ahmadiyya-muslim-youth-organisation-celebrates-rally.html Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Organisation celebrates rally Agona Nsaba (C/R) May 24, GNA – Muhammad Kofi Twumasi Nayyar, Education Officer of Central East Majlis Khuddamul – Ahmadiyya Utema’a (Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Organisation), has called on Ahmadi’s to strive for high positions in the domain of spiritual and moral progress. Muhammad […]
Nigeria: Bishop Onaiyekan bags Ahmadiyya Muslim Community’s International Peace Award
Source: http://www.onlinenigeria.com/2017/05/bishop-onaiyekan-bags-ahmadiyya-intl-peace-award/ | Nicholas By Haroon Balogun The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Nigeria will tomorrow confer International Peace Award on the Arch Bishop of Abuja, John Onaiyekan during the group’s Jalsa Tarbiyya Islamic Training Conference for Northern Nigeria. The award which will hold at the International Conference Center, Abuja was meant to reward […]
Gambia: Sectarian cleric backs persecution of Ahmadi Muslims
Source: https://gambia.smbcgo.com/2017/05/17/sectarian-cleric-backs-persecution-gambias-ahmadi-muslims/ | Written by Sam Phatey on May 17, 2017 A controversial Sunni cleric, who had urged Gambia’s government to expel Ahmadi Muslims from the West African nation is continuing his campaign for the persecution of the minority Muslim group. Imam Abdoulie Fatty, an influential member of the power Supreme Islamic Council […]
