Last week we looked back at nearly 3 years of our Meals for the Needy Project that provides hot meals and a food bank for visitors to Clementswood Community Centre, in Ilford. You can read our report (here) Young Willow Chowdhry (12 yrs), has taken over from her sister Hannah (18 yrs) as one of the coordinators of our Meals for the Needy Project. Every week, she sets up food tables, helps to organise the queue outside the Centre and she has recently been interviewing some of the visitors, to gauge how successful our services have been. Here is a…
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Image: The family of Danish Masih – please help us bail out this young family and others before Christmas. Royal Thai Police have begun the first national crackdown on illegal immigrants since the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown (click here). During one raid Police arrested 6 Pak-Christian Asylum Seekers including a girl aged 11. The mother of the 11 year old has reached out to British Asian Christian Association, to seek help with removal of her child from the Bangkok Immigration Detention Centre. Frightened asylum seekers cease black-market work and isolate themselves in grubby undersized condos, suffering even harder economic poverty as…
Islamabad’s Capital Development Authority (CDA) and Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) have bulldozed 115 houses of Christian slum dwellers of Nawaz Sharif Colony at H-9/2 Islamabad Authorities left all Muslims houses in the same slum untouched while targeting the homes of deprived Christian sewage, drainage and domestic cleaning workers. During the operation, demolition workers stole woven charpai (rope beds), blankets, kitchen utensils and other valuable items. Officers have told Christian leaders they plan to resume the operation immediately after Christmas. Over 115 families have been forced to live in tents, and other make-shift homes in the bitter cold of Islamabad’s winter.…
BACA celebrated the birthday of Sonia (12 yrs) one of the orphaned children of Shama and Shahzad, slaves who were burned alive in a brick kiln in 2014. Read more (here). The enslaved couple were accused of blasphemy by the accountant of their master who had raped Shama and wanted to escape conviction. The accountant persuaded local mosques to foment a mob to kill them, resulting in over 5000 people beating them, breaking bones, raping Shama in front of her husband, before dragging the naked couple behind a tractor and throwing them in a brick kiln alive. BACA has provided…
By Hannah Chowdhry and Juliet Chowdhry A French Magazine concerned about the treatment of Christians in Pakistan submitted some questions to us. You can read the actual article, which converts into several languages (click here). Our full response can be read below: Christians are persecuted in Pakistan, like Hindus or Ahmadis… But are they proportionally more persecuted than other communities? There is no simple answer to this question unfortunately. Figures from the National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) recorded that 537 persons were accused under blasphemy laws during 1986-2015, 633 (47%) were Muslims, 494 were Ahmadi (37%), 187 were…
Badil Masih was killed at 10 years of age after being sodomized by his Muslim employers, his mother fought for justice but eventually caved in to threats and ceased a murder trial (click here). Months later Sahrifah Bibi died and left behind her son Soojal who was 8 years old, extremely distraught and confused (click here). It took months to locate him but BACA did not give up and found him being passed around between uncles, and made to work for his upkeep (click here). BACA struggled with them and gained permission to admit soojal to a primary school near…
An independent report on the clashes between Muslim and Hindu Youth in Leicester during August 2022, states that misinformation has stirred up anti-Hindu sentiment and placed Hindu Communities under threat. The report castigates mainstream media for reliance on two of the Muslim influencers who have spewed the false information about widescale Hindutva (Hindu fascism) amongst Leicester’s youth, ‘perpetuating the threat against the Hindu community’ The report also debunks accusations that Hindu youth had links to hardline political group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) despite numerous social media inputs by Muslims who wanted to fan the flames of hate. The author suggests…
Does your church offer effective support to bereaved people? And do you know where to access bereavement support if needed? Through my work with Loss and HOPE for the Christian bereavement charity AtaLoss, I have been contacting churches to find out how they are supporting bereaved people, and how we can offer help through providing training and resources. We would love to hear from those churches in the British Asian Christian Association’s network around the UK about how you have been supporting bereaved people. We have much to learn, but we also have much to share. See more here The…
The war in Ukraine surprised people across the globe when it began despite attempts at diplomacy. The first major war on European soil since the Bosnian War in the 1990’s. The war has now been raging for almost a year and shows no signs of letting up, despite severe international sanctions being placed on Russia and their wealth oligarchs by most of the rest of the world. Diplomatic meetings between Russia and Ukraine have yielded little hope for an early end to the war. Attempts by Russia to end Ukrainian resistance through targeted attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure have…
A Christian college student from Pakpattan, Pakistan was filmed being forcefully raped, and was then blackmailed into undergoing further rapes by 8 Muslim sexual predators in the area. Despite evidence to the contrary local police have declared 7 of the rapists innocent in an investigation report. The family of the victim are the only Christian family in the area and are receiving daily threats from influential people demanding they drop the case. https://youtu.be/ypp3Nv5JHL4 Please sign our petition for Zahid Masih (click here) Zahid Masih(17 yrs) is a second year student at Superior College, Pakpattan. His college is in the city…