A shocked teenager has joined many voices in condemning the recent death threats to 4 school boys suspended from a West Yorkshire school, for allegedly desecrating the Koran. The boys faced death threats and in a video shared by the Daily Express a mother can be seen apologizing for her son, who she describes as a ‘very, very, silly 14 year old’ and ‘has some challenges he suffers from high functioning Autism.’ the public meeting was held in a mosque. Watch video (here) Local police interviewed the 4 boys and recorded the incident as a non-criminal hate incident. They also…
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A Pakistani Christian student achieved her Duke of Edinburgh scheme (click here), Gold Award at 18 Y/O despite the pandemic lockdown preventing many from achieving their goal. Initially, Hannah Chowdhry (19 yrs) set her heart on simply achieving the Certificate of Achievement, a certificate that recognized participants who managed to complete their Skills, Volunteering and Physical sections at Bronze, Silver or Gold level, but were unable to do their expedition and/or residential because of the pandemic lockdown (click here). Hannah achieved this and was one of the first children in the country to attain this certificate especially at Gold level,…
IMAGE: L-R Atiq Chowdhry (one of the founders of British Asian Christian Association), Rev’d Amelia Stanley and Juliet Chowdhry BACA Trustee. On Saturday 11th February Reverend Amelia Jacob launched ‘The Priest from Pakistan’ an account of journey of faith, at St James Church in Alperton. The event was presided over by Rev’d Ali Taylor who presided over the event introducing each speaker and shared her own thoughts on the relationship she has with Rev’d Amelia throughout the evening. Rev’d Ali Taylor and her husband themselves are history makers as one of the first and very rare married ordained couples in…
A mob of hundreds estimated at 800 Muslims stormed a police station in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province. The mob managed to snatch a blasphemy suspect from his cell and take him outside of a police station, where they lynched him. The video below has very graphic content that shows Waris being beaten after being taken from the clutches of local Police. Senior police officer Babar Sarfaraz Alpa spoke to press the same day, he explained: “On Saturday a man identified as Waris had been in police custody for desecrating the pages of a copy of Islam’s holy book, the Quran.…
By Hannah Chowdhry We share an account of the remarkable life of Esther John who was chosen to represent South Asian Christians amongst the Ten Modern Day Martyrs, above Westminster Abbey’s Great West Door. These ten statues represent Christians who gave up their lives for their beliefs and include more well known figures such as Dr Martin Luther King Jr (click here) and Oscar Romero (click here). Read more (here). The Ten Modern Martyrs were installed on 9th July 1998 only two months after another the death of famous Catholic Martyr, Bishop John Joseph (15 November 1932 – 6th May…
A video that was shared on Tick Tok by an Islamist who threatened to urinate on a Bible in a public place, has caused a lot of hurt amongst Christians. The video began to be shared virally across social media especially after Matthew Suleman an apologist from Pakistan, condemned the video. Read more and watch video (here) After receiving the video Juliet Chowdhry contacted London’s Metropolitan Police and a crime was registered. In the meanwhile, another Christian fared much less favourably, he alleges that Thames Valley Police refused to investigate the hate speech, because he was the only complainant. Evangelist…
IMAGE: Sunita Munawar as she recovers in hospital bed. A young Christian woman of only 19 years of age had acid thrown onto her face in response to rejection of the romantic advances of a Muslim man. The young nurse was being harassed by her Muslim neighbour for several years and her siblings had often complained about the unwanted interactions of Kamran Allah Baksh, with his parents. The family had reported the stalking and harassment undertaken by the young man to local police. But nothing was done to curb Mr Baksh’s behaviour. 19 year old Sunita Munawar began her journey…
A rampant crowd of Muslim students destroyed college property after a teacher was accused of blaspheming against the companions of Muhammed. In video footage obtained from Facebook, students can be seen destroying school buses, chairs, marching through college property chanting Allah-hu-akbar (Allah is the greatest) and ramming huge poles against the colleges boundary fence. Students as young as 16 could be heard calling for the extrajudicial lynching of the teacher. Police have arrested and detained the suspect accused of a blasphemy who is yet to be named and he will now be trialed through the newly hardened blasphemy law 295A…
IMAGE: Mobility challenged visitor is served at our ‘Meals for the Homeless’ project, as volunteers are on hand to offer assistance. Visitors to British Asian Christian Association’s ‘Meals for the Needy’ project have a wonderful month of January full of extra treats. On New Years Day Naomi Chowdhry shared a birthday cake with our regular visitors including asylum seekers, refugees, the homeless and others struggling with the economy. Read more (here). On 16th January a cake was paid for by Hannah Chowdhry who is now 19 years old. Though she was not there in person volunteers distributed the cake a…
By Hannah Chowdhry Rev’d Amelia Jacob was the first ever Pakistani Vicar for the Church of England. Many years ago my grandmother Helen Chowdhry, was her Geography teacher in Year 8 and a neighbour in her community – they always shared a special bond. Rev’d Amelia has informed us that my grandmother and her sister-in-law were the only two Christian teachers at her school. We share this short summary of her recently published biography: This is the inspirational story of Amelia Jacob, one of the UK’s first female priests – and the very first from Pakistan. Born in Faisalabad, Amelia…