A 20ft statue of Jesus Christ that was erected in 2004 was pulled down unceremoniously and then smashed to pieces by the Kolam Administration of District Karnataka. 

Archbishop of Bangalore, Peter Machado has condemned the act which he says occurred without the local authority going through due process.

Our Volunteer Rajeshri Chouhan displaying some of the wonderful gifts.

Three formerly used warm coats, a good quality electric sewing machine, fresh new pillow cases, mugs and T-shirts with Bible verses and a variety of Christian books, were gifted to British Asian Christian Association last week.  There were also some additional used clothes and a new plush toy.

The donor was an Indian Christian who began life in Goa and initially went to a Catholic church but is now attending a Baptist Church.

The items were all collected from Bromley by our volunteer Rajeshri Chouhan and will now be distributed at our Meals for the Homeless Project in Ilford, London and some items will be sent to Lahore Pakistan.

Image of Nawab Bibi dropping BACA funded groceries and sanitary equipment to Zafar Bhatti in prison.

Please sign and share widely our petition for Zafar Bhatti (here)

Fears that Zafar Bhatti (55 yrs), Pakistan’s longest serving blasphemy convict could be the first ever to be lynched heightened after a judge increased his sentence from life imprisonment to death on 3rd January 2022 (click here)

Judge Sahibzada Naqeeb Shehzad, of Sessions Court Rawalpindi made this ruling despite clear physical and electronic evidence of the innocence of Zafar Bhatti. 

On 13th February at 9pm, a gang of 4 Muslim men entered a games arcade room owned by a Christian man and frequented mainly by Christians.  The Muslim men were drunk even though it is illegal for them to drink alcohol in Pakistan when they entered the arcade and began being disruptive.

The Muslim men were from compound B of a Lahore Development Authority community housing project that had relocated deprived Christians from one area, into Compound A.  This had from the outset caused many conflicts and arguments, as the larger Muslim community could not bear to live near ritually impure Christians.  Ironically, these Christians had been moved from a previous area where Muslims could not bear to live near ritually impure Christians.

A furious mob of Muslims lynched a man allegedly accused of burning pages of the Quran.

It is believed that the victim was mentally sick for the last fifteen years and was killed in a village he had entered only the day before.  

On 12^th February 2022, in Jungle Village, District Khanewal,  hundreds of local Muslims gathered to stone a Mushtaq Ahmed (41 yrs) to death.

Mian Muhammad Ramzan, the Imam of the Masjid (Mosque) Shah Muqeem has stated that he saw smoke emitting from the mosque and rushed to the building to investigate. He further alleges that on reaching the mosque he saw an unknown man desecrating a Quran which he was ripping and then burning. Afraid that the Mushtaq Ahmed was going to burn more he grappled him.

An Indian Pastor has been attacked by a knifeman sustaining severe wounds to his chest, right hand and head.

While being operated on the semi-conscious Pastor’s only thoughts were to praise and worship God.

On 4th February 2022,  while returning home after visiting church members in Beghma Pahantoli Village of Palkot District in the state of Jharkhand, Pastor  Narendra Besra (46 yrs), was forced to stay at one of the members homes after a parade of elephants took up residence for the night.

In Indian villages the custom is to allow the elephants to remain where they are as early in the morning they move on.  At 7pm the villagers had already gone to sleep which is quite normal but around 9pm Pastor Narendra had the urge to go to the toilet.

The toilet facility for the house was outside the main building and Pastor Narendra relieved himself and was about to walk back to the house, when a masked assassin began attacking him with a knife.

A makeshift church made from metal framework and corrugated Iron sheets has been torn down and bent out of shape by local Municipal workers in the State of Tenanga, India.

The church of 100 people have decided to continue at the same location despite fear of further destruction and personal attacks.

NEW CHURCH SHED DEMOLISHED IN AMEENPUR, HYDERABAD, TELANGANA,  INDIA”.

A distraught Pastor sent out a video describing the demolition of his church by extremist groups who used recent planning laws to destroy the nascent construct they used for worship since 30th January 2021.

On Friday 4th February less than a week since the metal frame, corrugated iron sheet construct had been put up, 4 members of the church were on site building a washroom and toilet into the church structure.  Suddenly, with no previous warning mean from the Municipal Council arrived with a JCB and tore down their makeshift building.

Indian politicians and Civilians are clashing over the decision to drop the world renowned  Hymn ‘Abide with me’, from the Indian Beating Retreat Ceremony.

We found this video of  ‘Abide with Me’ playing at the 2021 ceremony on Youtube.   The comments below it were extremely supportive of reintroducing the melody.  Please watch video and read comments

The ceremony involves military bands from all of India’s military forces and ends a three day celebration of Republic Day (the day India ratified it’s constitution and became a sovereign nation) on 26th January 1950.

Participants from the Indian Army, Indian Air Force, Indian Navy and Central Armed Police Forces have been involved in the Ceremony since 1955, when a grand military parade was first held in the capital city of Delhi.