In the wake of the devastating bomb attacks on churches in Sri Lanka the global mourning amongst people of good conscience from all walks of life has been palpable. Events have sprung up across the UK as well as across the globe starting with a memorial service on Thursday 25th April, at Beulah Family Church, […]
Month: April 2019
Asylum seekers attacked in Negombo in wake of Church bomb attacks
Several migrant groups in Sri Lanka have been seeking protection in the police stations of Negombo after a series of attacks. Afghan and Pakistani asylum seekers have complained about threats to their lives from the local community after the series of bomb attacks. See Reuters News story (here) We spoke to one of the frightened […]
BPCA reaches victims of Zion Church, Batticaloa
BPCA National Executive Anton Kyanq (centre) meets victims at Zion Church Batticaloa More than 100 families were affected by the bomb attack in batticaloa and out of 19 of the families atending the church 29 members were killed. We met the wife of Pastor Thirukkumaran’s whose son Thirukkumaran Shalom Malkiya (11 yrs) was killes in […]
Peace Vigil to be held outside Ilford Town Hall to remember victims of Sri Lanka Bomb Attack
A multi-cultural and multi faith peace vigil is to be held outside Ilford Town Hall tomorrow at 6.30pm. The event which is organised by British Pakistani Christian Association and both Ilford and Newham branches of Emmanuel Christian Centre (Tamil Churches. At the event a bagpiper will be playing a lament before and after a one […]
Death toll rises in Sri Lanka after 10 bombs detonate in churches and hotels
As Easter celebrations were taking place across Sri Lanka in particular within the cities of Colombo and Negombo – where the largest Christian communities exist – a depraved series of bomb attacks on churches and exclusive hotels brought terror to revellers and tourists. Early reports focused on 8 explosions but by the end of the […]
Holi celebration in Pakistan leads to kidnap of two Hindu girls – later forced into Islamic marriage
Image: BPCA Friend Cllr Sham Lal, met with the family of the kidnapped girls on our behalf. L-R Clr Sham Lall (46 yrs), Abji Mother of the sisters (48 yrs), Father Hari Das (60 yrs) and brother Shamaan Das (30 yrs) Two Hindu sisters who converted to Islam and their alleged rapist husbands will be […]
Rapist who forcibly Islamically married Christian wife and mother of three still on the loose
Naveed Iqbal (37 yrs), Saima (35 yrs) and Danish (8 yrs) A family’s tumultuous period of running from home to home as they sought protection from the violent rapist of a Christian wife and mother of three children has come to an end, after British Pakistani Christian Association stepped in and put them in a […]
Abducted, raped and forced into Islamic marriage 15 YO Shalet has now been rescued and has given testimony of her ordeal!
Escapee Shalet has boldly spoken about her ordeal in court. A 15 year old Christian victim of the latest forced Islamic marriage incident to rock Pakistan has been rescued from her captor and has given testimony to her ordeal. This morning (10th April 2019) at 3am a ‘planned’ police raid at an undisclosed home in […]
Wilson and Hannah Chowdhry interviewed by Gateway Gazette on MATV
On Thursday 28th March Hannah and Wilson Chowdhry from the British Pakistani Christian Associataion were interviewed by Gateway Gazette, a Pakistani Christian current affairs programme, which airs on MATV. Anchor John Bosco asked several questions relating to the current status of a number of Christian victims of persecution in Pakistan and Hannah Chowdhry’s election onto […]
Christian teenager angry with parents visits Muslim family friend only to be sold into sexual slavery
A Pakistani Christian girl was sold to a Muslim rapist by a Muslim woman who was close friends with her parents. The man who is known to traffick young girls has now said that teenager is in an Islamic marriage with him – forcing the parents into a long and difficult court case in order […]