Image from Redbridge Easter Parade 2014 – a Christian event attended by people of all faiths! British Pakistani Christian Association is calling on churches across Redbridge to join us for a celebration of the resurrection of Christ on Easter Monday 6th April 2015. The regular celebration celebrates its own 3rd anniversary this year and we hope to make the event more inclusive of Redbridge/London and wider churches and Christian groups. The event had a huge attendance last year and we are looking for Christian performers, choirs, Sunday School performances, Testimonies, Easter messages and much more, so that visitors can learn…
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Image of Redbridge Easter Parade 2013 Following a consultation with several churches the BPCA has booked the 23rd and 24th December 2014 as a potential two day Christmas Festival. We hope with the support of local churches to make the event one that reaches out to the community and shares the joy of the birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. We would like to hold a planning meeting at 7pm, on Tuesday 18th December 2014 and invite Churches and Christian groups from Redbridge and East London to come and join us. The venue will be the Clementswood Community…
Wilson Chowdhry PC Saeed, PC Saleem with the bags of cannabis. Please support the work of the BPCA Community Centre by donating via our local giving page, donations of a tenner will be doubled until the end of January (Click here) Today we (BPCA) received a call at our community centre from concerned resident of Clementswood Ward, who expressed great anxiety at 16 bags of Cannabis that had been dumped before a property on Gordon Road, Ilford. The resident was concerned about the full bags of Cannabis that were being collected by a number of vehicles and individuals, who seemed to…
The BPCA has a long-standing relationship with many community groups in Redbridge and in particular Wilson Chowdhry, Reverend Jonathan Evans and Dancer Latasha Sinclair Please support the work of the BPCA Community Centre by donating via our local giving page, donations of a tenner will be doubled until the end of January (Click here) Anti-knife UK who we helped develop their constitution and taught through the process of how to open a community account. It was with great pleasure that we accepted an invitation to speak at their first ever memorial service for victims of knife crime, at 7pm on Wednesday 3rd…
Some of the few remains of the unfortunate martyrs Shahzad and Shama (RIP). Evangelical Christians call on Westminster to take action against Pakistan for summary execution of Pakistani Christians Describing the burning to death of a young Christian man and his pregnant wife in a brick kiln in Pakistan as “barbaric”, the Evangelical Alliance wants all Christians to sign a petition and come out and support a rally outside 10 Downing Street. On 4th November 2014, 26-year-old Shahzad Masih and his 24-year-old wife Shama Bibi who, was four months pregnant, were beaten, tortured and burned alive in the fiery furnace of a…
Police stood back and watched while Shahzad and Shama were killed. A failed Government cover up dispels the myth that they desire reform. Image of the brick kiln where Shahzad and Shama were roasted alive. More details are emerging about the beating and incineration of a young Christian couple in eastern Punjab last week (4th November 2014), including information from their distraught 6 year old son. The information from relatives of the victims may also explain some of the contradictory accounts. The victims, Shahzad and Shama, were a young couple in their mid -twenties, originally from a Christian village, Clarkabad where,…
LAHORE: Hear Wilson Chowdhry’s Premier Christian news interview (click here) Protest outside 10 Downing Street next Saturday 22nd November 2014 from 11:00 – 13:00. (click here) Sign our petition (click here) Today (4th November) at 7:00am, a Christian couple Shahzad Masih and Shama Bibi who was 4 months pregnant, were burned alive in an extra-judicial killing for an blasphemy. The incident occurred at the brick Kiln of Yousaf Gujjar a Muslim landowner in Kasur (near Lahore). 44 culprits including Mr Gujjar have been arrested on charges of murder. We set the facts out for you below as reported by Muhammad Rafique. The couple worked at the brick…
Image taken from protest outside 10 Downing Street Saturday 18th October 2014. [Images lost during website transfer in 2020] A re-enactment of the savage attack on Asia Bibi a Christian mother of five children, who was later arrested and accused of blasphemy, after simply drinking water from a well and offering water to Muslim co-workers, is to be staged outside the Pakistan High Commission, Lowndes Square, London, on Saturday 25th October 2014. Actors will attempt to illustrate the generosity of a caring woman who thought to share water with other thirsty labourers, whilst picking berries in a field. The scene…
Image containing Kheirat and Akram Masih -both arrested under the blasphemy laws of Pakistan. [Images lost during transfer of website in 2020]. By Mushtaq Gill A Christian boy Akram Masih and his family, including several females, were severely beaten and tortured by Policemen and other extremists in Multan, on 16th October 2014. The policemen entered his home by climbing over the perimeter walls in order to arrest Akram, because he was in marriage with a Muslim girl, Maria Bibi (originally from District Shiekhupura). Advocate Sardar Mushtaq Gill, Human Rights Defender and Chief of LEAD was informed by Moderator Bishop Asher…
Calls for the death of Ahmadi students and their parents, in the wake of false blasphemy charges, arecommon and the case of Rana Sajeel Ahmad highlights the desperate situation faced by so many Ahmadis in Pakistan: Rana Sajeel Ahmad, a 16-year old Ahmadi student of Pubic High School, Khushab, was beaten up severely by a gang of students on November 23rd 2011. He now faces the dreaded accusation of blasphemy. Subsequent to the beating, the attackers accused Ahmad of preaching his creed and defiling the Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be on him). The school administration found it convenient to accept…