The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 196
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI. This number of the last 10 years is 1643. The total number of mosques is above 4000. --New Ahmadiyya congregations established in the last year (Aug. 93 to July 94) number 1551 out of which 891 were organized. . The number of new Jamaats since 1984 is 4233. West Africa leads this list. --418,206 persons were converted worldwide in the past year. . These converts are from 93 countries and included 155 nationalities or ethnic groups. They joined the International Ba'it Ceremony (taking oath of allegiance) held at Jalsa Salana UK on the 31st of July 1994. The group in London pledged at the hands of Khalifatul Masihi. IV and as the ceremony was transmitted via satellite to most countries. of the world, the new converts along with millions of other Ahmadis worldwide repeated the words of Ba'it in their own languages, which numbered 120. This was a manifestation and a glimpse of the unity of mankind destined to take place at the hands of the Promised Messiah and his followers. The Promised Messiah while referring to the institution of Jalsa Salana (first held at Qadian in 1891) had prophesied that there are nations who are ready to join it. 26,000. Europeans have joined the Ahmadiyya Movement in the last year. --Translations of the Holy Quran have been published in 54 languages, 41 of them in the last ten years. These are of good standards and are greatly admired. They have been distributed worldwide. The target is to translate in at least 100 languages. languages. . Published selected verses from the Holy Quran in 117. --Published a very comprehensive commentary of the Holy. Quran in five volumes, in English, including a biography of the Holy. Prophet (peace be on him). --155 schools and educational institutions have been established in the last ten years by the Nusrat Jehan scheme, mostly in. Africa. Also a number of medical clinics and hospitals have been established in Africa. Their number in 1994 was 30. The Ahmadiyya. Movement, despite limited resources, has been in the forefront of providing humanitarian aid for people stricken with Natural Disasters. 196