Ahmadiyya Times | News Staff | Int'l News
Sources: MTA, CNA, Ahmadiyy Times
By Ahmadiyya Times Staff | April 18, 2010
The Khalifa of Islam and the Spiritual Head of the Worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, arrived in Italy and delivered his Friday Sermon at Baitul Tauheed Mosque, ‘the House of Oneness [of God]’, at San Pietro in Casale in Italy, the Muslim Television Ahmadiyya (MTA) Reported.
San Pietro in Casale is a municipality of about 12,000 inhabitants, located in the Province of Bologna in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy.
According to the MTA news, His Holiness, Hadhrat Ahmad reminded the members of the Community during his Friday Sermon that Italy is a huge responsibility for the Ahmadi Muslims living in the country.
Hazrat Ahmad explained that when Christianity spread in Italy after the suffering of the Unitarian Christians for many hundreds of years, it was helped by the concept of Trinity that came to be hugely accepted. Now Ahmadi Muslims have to spread Ahmadiyyat, the true Islam in the country and change the concept of Trinity back to Unity of God.
He reminded the members to be mindful that they live in a country a part of which has been the centre of Catholicism and where papacy is established [Vatican], albeit it is reduced to a paradigm of worldliness and a large majority of Europeans are Catholics who do accept the Pope.
Many believe that the concept of Trinity prevailed because of its compatibility with pagan beliefs of multiple gods. Similarly, many other Christian traditions can be found to have emerge from the pagan belief-set.
As Hazrat Ahmad delivered the sermon in San Pietro in Casale, the chief of Catholicism, Pope Benedict left Rome to go on an Apostolic Journey to Malta.
The Catholic News Agency (CNA) reported that the Holy Father sent a telegram of good wishes to the President of the Republic of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano and informed the President about this being a "providential occasion" for his pilgrimage to Malta.
According to CNA, the Pontiff looked forward to meeting many "brothers and sisters in the faith" at a historic place where the apostle Paul once was shipwrecked and meet with representatives of the Maltese people.
Unhindered by the cloud of volcanic ash that had interrupted flights in northern Italy since Saturday morning, the Holy Father took off for Malta where he arrived around 5:00 PM local time.
However, in Malta, the pontiff has been also eagerly awaited by a group of men, allegedly abused by Roman Catholic clergy, who hope that this weekend will mark a turning point for them and their Church.
-- Ahmadiyya Times staff compiled from multiple sources.
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