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Saturday, September 2nd, 2023
by A. Abdul Aziz Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at – Sri Lanka. When we fulfil the rights of God, it creates within us the spirit of helping humanity” – Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad On 28 August 2023, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad delivered the keynote […]
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Saturday, September 2nd, 2023
by A. Abdul Aziz Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at – Sri Lanka. In Stuttgart, Germany, on 1 September 2023, the 47th Jalsa Salana (three day Annual Convention) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Germany commenced with the Friday Sermon delivered by the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor […]
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Friday, September 1st, 2023
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2023
Lanka Lead News මරණයෙන් පසු ජීවයක් ඇති බවත් ඒ පිළිබඳව කිසිඳු සැකයක් නොමැති බවත් රෝගීන්ගේ මරණාසන්න අත්දැකීම් 5000 ක් පමණ අධ්යනය කළ ඇමෙරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදයේ කෙන්ටකි ප්රාන්තයේ පිළිකා රෝග විශේෂඥ වෛද්යවරයෙකු වන ජෙෆ්රි ලෝන්ග් මහතා පවසා තිබේ. ජෙෆ්රි ලෝන්ග් මහතා පිළිකා රෝග විශේෂඥ වෛද්යවරයෙකු මෙන්ම මරණාසන්න අත්දැකීම් පිළිබඳ පර්යේෂණ පදනමේ නිර්මාතෘවරයාද වන අතර, තමාගේ වෘත්තීය […]
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Monday, August 28th, 2023
A. Abdul Aziz – Press Secretary –Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at – Sri Lanka. Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad travels to attend the Annual Convention of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Germany after four years The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad arrived safely in Germany on 27th August […]
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Friday, August 25th, 2023
by Unni K Warrier Courtesy onmanorama Thrissur: There has been a spurt in the number of captive elephants running amok during temple festi… Read more at: Deliberate attempts to provoke jumbos & create chaos in Kerala? Video (onmanorama.com)
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Thursday, August 24th, 2023
by A. Abdul Aziz U.K. based International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) has reported that a wave of bigotry against Ahmadis has intensified since the start of 2023. Wave of attacks on Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosques has taken place in the first week of August 2023, as the situation is becoming worst day by day for the […]
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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2023
Eileen Weintraub Founding Director Help Animals India Seattle, WA USA “This Anti-Animal Welfare Act of 2022, IF passed AS IS is all that Sri Lanka needs now to damn it Internationally as the first Buddhist country in the world to grant “State-Sanctioned Animal Cruelty sans legal redress to the voiceless via a supposed “Welfare” Act. […]
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Tuesday, August 1st, 2023
by A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary – AMJSL. Britain Largest Islamic Convention concludes. 217168 people had joined the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community during the past year from around the world. The Jalsa Salana (Annual Convention) of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the United Kingdom concluded on Sunday 30th July 2023 in which five speeches by the World Head the Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
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Sunday, July 30th, 2023
by A. Abdul Aziz According to reports available from U.K. based International Human Rights Committee (IHRC) fanatic mullahs are planning to demolish minarets of Ahmadi Muslim Mosques in Jhelum, Pakistan, in a planned march this weekend. This comes after police destroyed the minarets of an Ahmadi Mosque in Kala Gujran, Jhelum District on the order […]
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Friday, July 28th, 2023
By A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary,Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at – Sri Lanka. Around 40,000 representatives from all over the world attend the Convention. The Convention began on Friday with the traditional Friday Sermon The Three day Ahmadiyya Muslim International Convention (JALSA SALANA) commenced yesterday (at 9.00 p.m. SL time) with Flag hoisting followed by silent Prayers […]
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Monday, July 17th, 2023
Rohan Pethiyagoda Boys’ academic outcomes are sinking at an unprecedented rate. At university, girls now outnumber boys by two to one. Here, in a speech to an international policy workshop organized by the National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka, I venture into the minefield of political impropriety and argue that boys and girls should […]
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Sunday, July 16th, 2023
Justice for Animals and Nature The sentience of animals like crabs, lobsters & prawns (decapod crustaceans), calls for their legal protection. The welfare of decapod crustaceans remains largely unprotected, and they are truly voiceless. Their suffering at the humans is a blot on our moral conscience. There is compelling scientific evidence that they are sentient […]
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Saturday, July 15th, 2023
Courtesy Gov.UK Animal welfare Amendment to Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill following LSE report on decapod and cephalopod sentience The scope of the Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill has today been extended to recognise lobsters, octopus and crabs and all other decapod crustaceans and cephalopod molluscs as sentient beings. The move follows the findings of a government-commissioned independent review […]
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Thursday, July 13th, 2023
Carlijn Kingma Although money plays a key role in our lives, the workings of our monetary system are a mystery to most of us. ‘The Waterworks of Money’ by cartographer Carlijn Kingma is an attempt to demystify the world of big finance. It visualizes the flow of money through our society, its hidden power made […]
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Thursday, July 13th, 2023
By Vinod Moonesinghe/Factum Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 12: Historically, Sri Lankans have tended, whatever their faith, to tolerate other faiths. Indeed, to some extent every religion on the island has been influenced by the others. This mystical assimilation is reinforced by the existence of a syncretic system of folk belief underlying the major religions, incorporating […]
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Saturday, July 8th, 2023
By A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary – Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at – Sri Lanka. According to the latest information received by U.K. based IHRC, at least six Ahmadi Muslims have been arrested and five First Information Reports (FIRs) have been registered in Punjab, Pakistan against Ahmadi Muslims for sacrificing animals on Eid-ul-Azha (Hajj Festival). Eid Festivals […]
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Friday, July 7th, 2023
Mohammad Abdullah ‘COMPLAINING to Iqbal: Dialogue with the Dead’ (also titled ‘SMS to Sir Muhammad Iqbal’) is a poem written by the late Malaysian poet and public intellectual Mohd Kamal Hassan (1942–2023). Inspired by his trip to Spain, the poem provides a concise account of the pitfalls of the international order that he calls ‘the […]
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Friday, July 7th, 2023
Mohammad Abdullah The Holy Quran was burned last Wednesday in front of the largest mosque in Stockholm, Sweden. The day was Eid-ul-Azha. Such atrocities have been committed in the name of freedom of expression. The act of burning the Quran was carried out under the security of the Swedish police. The OIC has called an […]
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Tuesday, July 4th, 2023
by A. Abdul Aziz. Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, peace be on him, Promised Messiah and Imam-al-Mahdi and Holy Founder of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam, in 1905, he warned the world in the following words: Remember, God has informed me of many earthquakes. Rest assured, therefore, that as earthquakes have shaken America and Europe, so […]
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Sunday, July 2nd, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Dr. Aurangasri Hinriksson receiving the Order of the Golden Falcon at the President’s House in view of National Day of Iceland During most of my adult life I was interested in international affairs, violation of human rights and the harm caused by racial and religious prejudices All adopted children have the […]
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Wednesday, June 28th, 2023
දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන අග්රාමාත්ය ශ්රී ලංකා ප්රජාතාන්ත්රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජය ලොව පුරා විසිරී සිටින මුස්ලිම් ජනතාව ඒකරාශීව සිය ආගමික පිළිවෙත් ඉටු කරමින් හජ් උත්සවය සමරයි. ඉමහත් හරසරින් සැමරෙන ආගමික පිළිවෙතක් වූ හජ් උත්සවයේ ප්රමුඛ පරමාර්ථය වන්නේ සමානාත්මතාවයෙන් හා සහජීවනයෙන් දිවි ගෙවීමයි. එකී අධ්යාත්මික වටිනාකම්වලින් ශ්රී ලාංකීය සමාජය තව තවත් පෝෂණය කොට පටු භේද අතැර සියලු දෙනාම මිත්රත්වයෙන් […]
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Tuesday, June 20th, 2023
Mohammad Abdullah The universes (alamin) that are mentioned in the Quran are discussed below under the following headings:i. Samawaatii. Jannaat iii. Different Universes iv. Super Space and Barzakh v. Araf, Channels, and Sidratul-Muntaha vi. Illiyin and Sijjin vii. Arsh. Only The Almighty , The All-Wise, The Omniscient Allah knows the real facts of the universes. […]
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Sunday, June 18th, 2023
Mohammad Abdullah In the religion of Islam, the 12th and final month of the Islamic (lunar) year is Dhul Hijjah, which is an incredibly holy and sacred time. It is the month in which two significant events are observed: Qurbani and Eid al-Adha (sometimes called ‘big Eid’ or ‘greater Eid’). The two events are closely […]
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Thursday, June 15th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror Embracing with love – Priyangika with her biological mother Priyangika Samanthie was another ‘brown child from abroad’ when she landed in Norway, seven weeks after she was born. Even though many Sri Lankans thought that she grew up white for a better opportunity, she was searching for her roots since her childhood. […]
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Friday, June 9th, 2023
SRI LANKA ASSOCIATION BERLIN e.V Berlin Carnival of Cultures is a mega event held every spring in Berlin attracting over 1 Million live spectators and several Millions on TV. Country wise, cultural organisations display their cultural heritage with traditional music and dance following a parade of decorated floats highlighting their cultural themes and mottos. Representing […]
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Sunday, June 4th, 2023
by A. Abdul Aziz. Chairman, Press & Media Desk – AMJSL. The Muslims who should have been united and be in harmony, are divided in countless sects and divisions. It is not only in religious field but in politics too. When such are the conditions, the aggregate will be below zero. It is incumbent that […]
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Sunday, May 28th, 2023
Prof. Chandana Jayalath University of Vocational Technology It is with profound grief that the University of Vocational Technology announces the passing away of Vidyajothi Emeritus Professor Dayantha Wijesekera, the first Chancellor of the university. The Vidya Jyothi is considered to be the highest national honor for science in Sri Lanka for outstanding contribution to the […]
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Sunday, May 28th, 2023
John Rozario Karnataka, India Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has said Bangladesh has moved far beyond Pakistan and there is a lesson that needs to be learned from the country. When a nation decides on freedom and its rights … when justice settles in people’s hearts … then whatever you do, even military operations, […]
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Sunday, May 28th, 2023
රුහුණු වෛද්ය පීඨයේ පීඨාධිපති මහාචාර්ය වසන්ත දේවසිරි මහතාගේ විග්රහයක්) Courtesy Lanka Lead News එක්තරා ස්ත්රියක විසින් සිදුහත් කුමරුවන් සුද්ධෝදනගේ කොලු පැටියා උපන් හැටියේ කවි කියමින් ඇවිද්ද බව පවසමින් මතු කිරීමට උතසාහ ගත් ග්රාම්ය උපහාසය ජාති ආගම් භේදයකින් තොරව සියලුම ශිෂ්ට සම්පන්න ජනතාවගේ පිළිකුළට භාජනය වීම පුදුමයට කරුණක් නොවේ. මා වඩාත් මවිතයට හා සෝකයට පත් වූයේ […]
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