The Promised Messiah and Mahdi — Page 188
THE PROMISED MESSIAH AND MAHDI. In the United States there are more than forty organized. Ahmadiyya Muslim communities, with their missions and mosques spread out in towns across the country. . In West Africa, the Movement has made rapid progress. . Missions are established in Nigeria, Ghana, Gambia, Sierra Leone and. Ivory Coast. In Ghana alone the Movement is estimated to be 500,000 strong. In West Africa there are hundreds of Ahmadi Mosques and hundreds of primary, middle and secondary schools and a few colleges. Since 1970, a number of medical clinics and hospitals have been opened, which are doing very useful work. As of now, there is a total of 26 hospitals functioning. . In East Africa, Ahmadiyya missions are established in Kenya,. Tanzania, Zambia and Uganda. Some of the other missions are in. Indonesia, Burma, Japan, Singapore, Canada, Guyana, Surinam,. Trinidad and Australia. There are organized Ahmadiyya missions in about forty countries. Branches of the Ahmadiyya Movement are established in 143 countries as of July 1994. There are 625 missionaries and teachers who have dedicated their lives for service of Islam and are working all over the world under central organization of the Ahmadiyya Movement. . The head of the Ahmadiyya Movement is called Khalifatul. Masih. A Khalifa (caliph) is elected for life. He serves as spiritual leader or Imam as well as administrative head. He guides and directs all the activities of the Movement. There is a very close relationship between the Khalifa and the members of the Movement. The present. . Khalifatul Masih IV is Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad. He is very vigorous, talented and saintly. Thus through the Promised Messiah,. Khilafat in Islam has been re-established. . The Ahmadiyya Movement has undertaken a massive programme in the field of the translation of the Holy Quran into various languages. Some of those which have been published are. English, Urdu, Punjabi, Danish, Swahili, Indonesian, Dutch,. Esperanto, German, French Spanish and Russian. As of July 1994, translations of the Holy Quran have been published in fifty four important languages. 188