Earlier this year, on 16th March 2020, BACA reported on the dithering police that failed to take action after a 17-year-old Christian teenager whis both deaf and mute, was kidnapped from her home, then forcibly married to a Muslim neighbour under a sham Islamic marriage (click here) Police at Sanda Police Station, Lahore failed to take action despite registering a First Information Report (FIR) 405/2020 on 17th March, in which they listed the crime of kidnap of a minor – though at the time no suspects were identified. Several attempts to garner a police response by Komal’s parents failed to start…
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We had sent some packages of recyclable goods that included clothing, toys and stationary. However sending by ship can be slow but delays were phenomenal this year due to the various COVID-19 lockdown. The Items that we send help some of the most impoverished families and are collected, sorted, cleaned and distributed by volunteers from All Saints Church In Lahore. Many of you will recognise your good no doubt and may be wondering where some of the items that you sent are? That is because since January this year we have been distributing to the Homeless of Redbridge as a…
In the freezing cold of a British November dozens of homeless people queued from 4pm for a 6pm meal distribution at British Asian Christian Association’s venue at Clementswood Community Centre. Our well cooked meals have become more popular than McDonalds to the many visitors, who love my mum’s hot spicy chicken curry, pasta and meatballs, fish and chips or whatever she chooses to serve up, in a regularly changing menu. It is no surprise then, that when a team of nurses from the Hepatology Department at Queens Hospital, Romford, joined us from 6pm to undertake blood tests, for Hepatitis B…
Image of Raja Lal Masih and Rita Masih parents of Arzoo The most complete video on Arzoo’s case including interviews with her parents and solicitor can be watched in the embed below of (click here): After a Pakistani Christian girl of only 13 was allegedly kidnapped and forced into an Islamic marriage with a 44 year old Muslim, Christians across Pakistan erupted into protests across the country and in many other nations across the globe. Initially police refused to take action but eventually began an investigation when evidence was submitted that the girl was only 13 years-of-age which was in contradiction…
Hannah Chowdhry distributing meal boxes to homeless during first COVID-19 lockdown. Ilford Historical Society’s youngest ever research contributor could become a trigger for younger supporters of the group. A young former Ilford resident now residing in Chigwell was so inspired when she learnt about Ilford’s historical past in helping the homeless, whilst reading an Eric Arthur Blair aka George Orwell novel, that she conducted her own research into the town’s desperate vagrancy past. Hannah Chowdhry (16 yrs) was born in Ilford and attended Kantor King Solomon before the COVID-19 lockdown and now attends Davenant Foundation school nearer to her current…
Together Stronger – an interfaith peace initiative led by BACA in Ilford in wake of 5 terrorist attacks Charlie Hebdo became the centre of a series of recent Islamist attacks in France beginning from the 26th of September, after a young Pakistani man of 18 years stabbed two people, outside the former offices of the French satirical magazine (click here). The attack occurred during the trial of seven of the accomplices of the gunmen killed for the attack at Charlie Hebdo headquarters in 2015, that resulted in 12 deaths. The world was stunned to silence (October 16th) when a school teacher from Paris,…
Pakistani Christians across the globe have been holding protests calling for the Justice for 13 year old Arzoo Raja from Karachi Railway Colony, who was abducted on October 13th from her home by her next door neighbour. Please sign our petition (here) Her father Raja who had started work at 7.30 am, had to hurry back to his home after he received a call from his neighbour Jameel, who informed him that his other children and neighbours were searching for Arzoo. After some time searching, Raja later went to Frere Police Station and registered a missing persons report. He and his…
A Pakistani Christian girl named Tabitha (7yrs) was kidnapped and raped by an 18 year old Muslim man, whilst playing on the streets with friends after school on 19th September 2019 (click here). Less than a year later the rapist Muhammed Waqas was set free on bail granted to him on 9th September 2020. Since then the Tabitha’s family have been receiving, insults and threats of violence and death unless they choose to drop the court case against Muhammed Waqas. In a video recording we shared last month young Tabitha can be heard saying: “I am afraid of being caught by…
Image of Juliet Chowdhry visiting homeless tents behind Ilford Library earlier this year. British Asian Christian Association is loaning it’s office space to a Queens Hospital Hepatology team for a day to help inspect and treat the large number of homeless people visiting our centre for food. A team of medical staff from the local Hospital based in Romford will be conducting Hepatitis tests on homeless people that attend our centre, on Thursday 5th November from 6pm. The team from the Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge NHS Trust’s programme to help vulnerable homeless people have chosen our centre due…
A Muslim man disgusted by the three crosses atop of Chadwell Heath Baptist Church in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham, decided to rip off the crosses from the church building on Sunday. Not along after a church service had been held and while parishioners were still in the building. In broad daylight some time before 2.40pm the incensed and enraged man can be seen placing his coat over the cross and levering ot till it snaps and is removed from the roof of the church. After the cross cracks and is dislodged he later throws the cross to…