Willow Chowdhry (12 yrs) has been serving homeless people regularly since October 2020. Our young volunteer has enjoyed serving hot meals and drinks to up to 45 people a day and setting up and distributing a food bank. Willow generally only volunteers on Saturdays but has participated a few times after school, as she has to travel with her mother Juliet Chowdhry when her coach arrives late from the grammar school she attends over 30 miles away from her home. The experience has been very rewarding for Willow who one day hopes to become a brain surgeon or an F1…
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British Asian Christian Association has been running our ‘Meals for the Needy’ project since 23rd January 2020 (click here). The project initially began as table-seated event and at our peak we had over 21 people attending within 2 months of beginning our project (click here). Many homeless, however believe our outreach began much earlier when we conducted a series of monthly community events under the title of Redbridge Festival in Ilford Town Centre (click here). The events united many local churches of varying denominations in a programme of community action and prayer (click here). The events ensured monthly healings took…
Fears that Zafar Bhatti (55 yrs), Pakistan’s longest serving blasphemy convict could be the first ever to be lynched heightened after a judge increased his sentence from life imprisonment to death on 3rd January 2022 (click here) Judge Sahibzada Naqeeb Shehzad, of Sessions Court Rawalpindi made this ruling despite clear physical and electronic evidence of the innocence of Zafar Bhatti. No forensic evidence exists for any blasphemy by Zafar Bhatti, in fact every piece of physical and electronic evidence suggests he is innocent. Zafar Bhatti however was convicted based on an unsubstantiated report declaring his guilt, made by police in the…
Record breaking floods wreaked havoc across Pakistan killing over 1300 people and destroying the homes of 3 million people in from June to September 2022. BACA reached out and provided help with tents, food and Mosquito nets to 13 Christian villages (click here) and (here). We have also installed two clean water pumps (click here) and (here) while a third is to be installed. We have now began a series of medical camps to curb the waterborne infections that have brought these communities to their knees. The historic 2022 monsoon inundation left at least 10 Christian villages without food, water…
A Christian Community Hall was locked by the son of Muslim Man who later claimed ownership without authority. Christians were kept out of their own building for 24 hours after police refused to take action. BACA intervention resulted in improved police action and a return of the property. A few days later a Muslim mob tore down the gates of the church and began desecrating a cross on the gate, When a Christian man objected against the forced trespass, he and his were attacked by the Muslim mob. A video showing a Christian community centre in Kasur around 16 Marla…
Floods have ravaged Thailand where thousands of Pakistani Christians fleeing persecution have been seeking refuge or hoping to transition to a hospitable nation in the West. The floods are the worst to hit Thailand for many years. Thai Authorities reported that more than 70,000 homes were inundated, 13,000 people have been displaced, and six people killed (click here). Bangkok based Pak-Christians are illegal in a nation that has not endorsed UN conventions for Asylum. No flood support is available to them, so they face a huge uphill struggle to survive as the price of food and household goods increases due…
Almost 16 Christian families near starvation have become the 11th community served food by British Asian Christian Association, since the terrible record-breaking floods of 2022. The community resided in a tiny hamlet named Dariya Khan Chandio and were finally visited by our group on 27th September 2022. Until BACA arrived the community had not been met by any aid agency and were near starvation. No Government or other rescue agency offered any support to these Christians. BACA have now provided food, mosquito nets and installed a new water pump to help this suffering community. PLEASE WATCH VIDEO BELOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m7R93M38Bg&t=147s On…
A London MP has sent out an alarming tweet suggesting that a protest may take place outside a London Mosque today [25th September 2022]. See actual flyer on this Instagram account (click here) MP Barry Strachan Gardiner the Shadow Secretary off State for Trade, warned against a planned protest outside a Hindu temple in his constituency. On his twitter account he wrote: “I’ve contacted the police about the incitement to demonstrate at a Hindu temple in my constituency tomorrow. “Anyone thinking of demonstrating should stay away and recognise that hate crimes carry jail sentences. Hindus should not go to “defend”…
Villagers living in Goth Ibrahim Khan village, Sindh, Pakistan have been using our new pump installed on 4th September 2022 – on 22nd September we installed a plaque.. The pump replaces one that was previously in a local Muslim village that has been destroyed in the recent historic deluge that killed over 1300 people and affected 33 million people. This is the first pump we installed however a second has already been installed in another village and a third project will begin shortly. We will update you on these projects next week. We intend to install many more to help…
A Christian girl was abducted from her home on 17th July 2022 from the village of Haloki in Kasur. The kidnapping took place at around 5pm while Muqadas Labha was washing dishes and many neighbors witnessed the abduction causing alarm in the community. Later it was discovered that Muqadas Labha (15 yrs) was abducted by Muhammad Naveed (35 yrs) from Okara district, 150km away. He had an accomplice name Muhammad Babar (32 yrs) who was also from the same village as Muqadas – Haloki. The abductor was known by the family because he had been providing work experience to Muqadas’s…