BACA Volunteer Hannah Chowdhry met with Cllr Gary Collins of Grays District Council where she signed a book of condolence which had earlier been signed by Boris Johnson. Last night Hannah Chowdhry an Essex Youth Councillor and BPCA volunteer met with Cllr Gary Collins who is on the Prevent Strategy Board for Grays Council and shared her pain at the recent deaths of 31 men and 8 women, who had been frozen to death while being smuggled into the UK in a refrigerated lorry. Cllr Gary Collins, shared a message with Hannah, he said: “The major incident that has unfolded…
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Image: Distressed Pak-Christian asylum seekers after a raid at Santisuk Condo. A Refugee Family from Pakistan have sought the help of BACA to repatriate the corpse of their daughter back to Pakistan after she died of Systemic Lupus. Kazia Rehan, 18, first exhibited symptoms for the auto-immune disease in August 2019 at a time when she when she was working illegally as a part time waitress, to support her education, after her family fled Pakistan due to death threats and religious persecution. Young Kaiza before the onset of Systemic Lupus. After suffering from a mild fever, Kazia Rahan was first…
BACA’s submissions to the Bishop of Truro’s ‘Independent Review of Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) support for persecuted Christians’ are now available online We are pleased to note that two of the three submissions presented by the British Asian Christian Association (when it was called the British Pakistani Christian Association – BPCA) to the Bishop of Truro’s ‘Independent Review of Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) support for persecuted Christians’ have just been published online by the Independent Review Team. They can be read at: https://christianpersecutionreview.org.uk/storage/2019/09/Pakistan-BPCA-Submission.pdfandhttps://christianpersecutionreview.org.uk/storage/2019/09/Pakistan-BPCA.pdf. The Review was commissioned by the FCO and sought to map the extent and nature of the…
Image of Nawab bibi wife of Zafar Bhatti A Christian man who claims to be falsely accused of blasphemy and given a life sentence has had his appeal postponed for a third time in a year. Zafar Bhatti was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2012 after being arrested for blasphemy by police from Police station New Town, Rawalpindi. A First Information report was lodged which claimed he had sent blasphemy texts from a mobile, something he denies. It has been proven since then that the phone from which they were sent was registered to another person, Ghazala Khan. Whilst Ms khan…
Some of the teenagers and two of our adult volunteers during our soft launch in September- taken after event with parental permission. After a series of evenings at our Teenage Chill-out Lounge in Ilford BACA will be organising a Halloween costume party for young people – at their request. The lounge allows children to socialize in a safe adult-supervised environment and also provides an opportunity for charities, community groups and leaders to share messages of hope and unity and to make young people aware of services available to them. During the Halloween party we hope to have a short talk…
Juliet Chowdhry Trustee for the BACA (centre) meets with sisters Sherish and Farzana who survived a brutal gunpoint gang-rape. Sign our petition to stop UK foreign aid to Pakistan (here) BPCA has expressed a number of concerns to the International Development Committee parliamentary inquiry team examining the nature of British aid to Pakistan. In a submission prepared by Desmond Fernandes, a former senior lecturer at De Montfort University, BPCA has highlighted the way in which many Department for International Development (DFID) educational aid-linked projects in Pakistan have not been designed or implemented in an effective, transparent or publicly accountable manner. We additionally hope that…
In 2018 after one of the largest raids on an asylum seeker condo by Bangkok authorities led to the arrest of Humaira and her children British Asian Christian Association, helped Sumaira and her children escape the brutal Bangkok Immigration Detention Centre. Since then we have been supporting her financially and like many other wives and mothers Humaira is still praying for the release from the IDC of her husband. Until that long awaited date BPCA will stand shoulder to shoulder with her to ensure that her essential needs are catered for. We are also supporting Sapna whose husband was arrested…
Image of Nabeel Masih only 16 when convicted for blasphemy. 8 years ago, Zafar Bhatti was arrested for allegedly sending blasphemous texts and has had to suffers several postponements to his appeal against charges which he has always refuted. Despite strong evidence that the initial accusation was false Zafar has been locked away in Adiala jail. Read more (here). Please sign our petition calling for an end to Pakistan’s blasphemy laws (click here) His wife Nawab Bibi is now fully supported by BPCA; with a fully paid for home, travel costs for visits to Zafar in prison, all necessary medical care for Zafar…
Juliet Chowdhry Trustee of the BPCA (nearest with poster of 125 Martyrs) at protest organised BPCA after twin bomb attack at church in Peshawar killed 125 people. Juliet lost 13 members of her family in the attack. Sign our petition to stop UK foreign aid to Pakistan (here) The British Pakistani Christian Association (BPCA) this week submitted a report (authored by Desmond Fernandes)[i] to the International Development Committee’s parliamentary inquiry into the effectiveness and coherence of the UK Department for International Development’s (DFID’s) aid programme for Pakistan. BPCA shared a number of its key concerns relating to DFID’s stated position that it has no…
A peace event to close of Redbridge’s celebration of the London Week of Peace brought joy to families of all diversities as they shopped in Ilford last week at an event organised by the British Pakistani Christian Association. From 24th – 29th September families were able to access a friendship centre where free counselling, drinks and cake were provided by members of High Road Baptist Church and Palm Tree Ministries, the popular stall has helped over 400 local people deal with matters such as ill health, depression, poverty bullying and dark abuses from the past. The experienced team were able…