christmas

Rabwah students celebrate Christmas with Christian neighbors

Christian kids in the small Pakistani town of Chenab Nagar got a pleasant surprise when on Christmas morning their Muslim neighbors showed up at their doors with treats. The group of Ahmadi Muslim students from the Nasir Higher Secondary school started their Monday morning with kids of the small Christian community adjacent to the town’s Bethlehem Catholic Church. The students who were led by their teachers and principal also went door to door in the parish and shared Christmas treats with Christian kids. …

Pakistani Americans condemn Berlin Christmas Attack

Pakistani Americans have condemned the attack on a Christmas market in the German city of Berlin. Washington D.C. based Pakistani advocacy group AdvoPak called the attack a “senseless act of violence”. At least 12 people were killed and dozens injured after a truck rammed into the crowded Christmas market in central Berlin on Monday night. Authorities are investigating the incident as a possible terrorist attack. “We as Pakistani Americans condemn this violent attack on the Christmas market in Berlin and …

Ahmadi Muslim Women share baubles for Peace

BERINGEN – On Tuesday morning visitors to the Municipal Administrative Centre (SAC) got a nice surprise as the women from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association presented Christmas ornaments. The women wanted to do a little something to express their gratitude to the local population, because they can live and work in Belgium. Turkish, Moroccan, Italian and women of other origins also took part in the action. ‘ Today is the International Day of Migrants ‘, explained Executive Yasemin Soysal, the staff …

Christmas gifts from Ahmadi Muslim Women

Schleswig. Many children have to spend Christmas in hospital. The compassion to these children called Anela Shoaib Arshad and Maria, members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat community in Schleswig to action. Together with their mothers and Zubida Qamat Shoaib Arshad they contacted to Dr. Martin Jung, chief of child and adolescent psychiatry at the Helios Clinic, because they wanted the children prepare a Christmas joy. For many years, the community engaged regularly for the benefit of the community and the …

Heavy snow hits Balkans

BELGRADE, Serbia — Freezing temperatures and heavy snowfall have killed at least six people and caused travel chaos across the Balkans, with rescue teams struggling to reach passengers stranded in buses and cars in Serbia on Sunday. Officials said four people have died in Croatia and two in Serbia as a result of blizzards in the region of southwestern Europe over the weekend, closing airports and roads and blocking public transportation in big cities. People traveling in vehicles waited for hours …