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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…

On 15th October 2020 the Royal Thai Government announced that the country would be entering a ‘state of emergency’.  This means that gatherings are restricted to a maximum of 5 across the nations and an evening curfew is in place.  This has meant that Pakistani Christian asylum seekers are no longer are more visible on the streets again, which is leaving them prone to arrest and incarceration in the various Bangkok Immigration Detention Centres. Those who are working illegally in Thailand are frightened of being caught and have asked for Christians across the globe to pray for them as they struggle…

Sharifa Bibi with her surviving son. A ten year old Christian child who chose to work in a dangerous scrap factory so he could support his mother who had to fend for a family of two boys and a drug-addict husband, was raped and tortured before being killed by his Muslim employers. Our report on Badil’s murder can be read (here) In her statement given to the Muharar Mohammad Shahid, Sharifa Bibi accused Irfan Murad and Ikram for a brutal murder of her 11 years old son Badil Shehzad. A First Information Report (FIR 1132/19) was registered as early as 11/07/2019 in…

Nawab Bibi and our Operations Manager praying before he took her to court today (19th October) Zafar Bhatti a victim of Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy law was sentenced life imprisonment in 2012 after falsely being accused  of sending blasphemous messages, from a mobile SIM that was not even his (click here) Since his imprisonment, Zafar Bhatti has been living in the misery of a dark, dingy room in chambers set for solitary confinement. For many years he has had no contact with other prisoners and only ever meets with cleaners, who he has short conversations with when they are on duty.  His…

We reported back to our supporters after visiting the flood-hit villagers in Sindh near Karachi, who had been subjected to the most terrible floods in the country’s short history (click here). A BACA team disaster recovery team headed by Pastor Musa (63 yrs) leading our partner group Victory Church, has since then been visiting several local communities of, Goth Ibrahim Khan Village, Mari Tahalka in the Sindh.  A very remote area about fifteen kilometres from the city of Karachi. We have now made 4 trips and given groceries and mosquito nets to over 250 families. Watch our video in the embed…