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Five Days of Prayer for Sikhs: 10-14 April 2022

A clear and interesting prayer guide to help you pray for Sikh people while exploring their faith, their culture, and their needs and concerns. Learn about them and practise the love of Christ through prayer for Sikh people by taking five days to pray for them: 10-14 April 2022 (during Vaisakhi). It is an excellent […]

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Training and research in Belgium

At the end of November Suneel Shivdasani visited Belgium on a follow-up trip for the research that Thomas Hieber and he did last August. A church leader in Gent had asked me to teach his church a prayer tool that I’d shown him, but was also willing to visit the local Gurudwara and Mosque. So […]

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Praying with South Asians in Portugal

Suneel Shivdasani and Thomas Hieber visited Portugal as part of their two year project to research South Asians in Belgium, Netherlands and Portugal. We visited Lisbon, Porto and different places across the Algarve. We were able to take local Christians, church leaders and missionaries for their first visit to a mosque, gurudwara and the Lisbon […]

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South Asians in the UK

The Indian diaspora is now 60 million (10 million when SAC began). It is the second largest, after China (65 million) but the most dispersed. ‘The sun never sets on the Indian diaspora’, said Sam George (Director, Global Diaspora Institute, Wheaton College, and Catalyst for Diasporas for the Lausanne Movement), at a recent seminar in […]

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School of Biblical Teaching’s impact in Punjab

Ramjit Singh’s picture appeared recently on the front cover of India Today, a leading weekly magazine. He is a Sikh background pastor who is part of a movement in Punjab, NW India. Some aspects of the movement raise concerns, such as undue promising of healing and prosperity. In February 2021 Ramjit had approached SBT, seeking […]

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Encouraging prayer and mobilising workers for the Diaspora in Europe

“Suneel, this lady wants us to pray for her…” We were just about to leave the Gurudwara in Barcelona, when one of our group brought us someone she’d started chatting to. But why were we there? Suneel Shivdasani explains the diaspora research that he and Thomas Hieber are doing. In 2017 South Asian Concern produced […]

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South Asian Diaspora in Fondi

Andrew Diprose spent his high school years in Fondi, Italy, in the 80s. Back then who could have imagined having a sizeable population of Indians in Fondi? The only brown or black faces then were Italian farmers tanned by working in the sun and a handful of Tunisian and Moroccan migrants. Fast track to the […]

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Mission

5:17 Day of prayer 5:17 Prayer day was held on February 27th, 2021 on Zoom. This time there were three live presentations and two recorded videos, from Delhi, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Germany and the UK, followed by the time of prayer. There was also time in the end to share Diaspora missions in Minneapolis and Italy, […]

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Lives less ordinary: a story of fearless faith in an extraordinary God

If you want to understand the beginnings of South Asian ministry in Britain, you need to read this book! Marlin and Barbara Summers served as missionaries in India and Pakistan, and then came to Wolverhampton in 1972 (when he was 60) to plant a church, the Asian Christian Fellowship. It was the first UK Asian […]

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Diaspora mission – Lausanne’s Global Diaspora Network

“If diaspora Christians take mission seriously, they can be a really powerful force”  It’s ten years since the launch of Lausanne’s Global Diaspora Network, which was celebrated by a Global Diaspora Virtual Summit. See the report below, from TV Thomas, Chair of Lausanne’s Global Diaspora Network. We took the opportunity to find out more about […]

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Vamos España!

Sunday morning in El Raval one of Barcelona’s multi-ethnic neighbourhoods. We made our way through the narrow backstreets to the Gurdwara. Thomas Hieber writes about a 10 day research trip into South Asians in Spain.

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Hindu World Prayer Guide (15 Days of Prayer)

Over one billion people across the world follow Hindu traditions; that is over 14% of the world’s population. The Hindu World Prayer Guide encourages Christians to pray during the festival of Diwali.

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Praying for South Asia

Our 5:17 Spring Day of Prayer at St John’s Church, Southall was attended by 55 people who ranged in age from their early 20s to their late 80s including some first timers interested to go to South Asia.

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Let’s talk about Jesus!

Every other Saturday we run a booktable on the main high street in Tooting, South London. Conversations are easier than you would think. People ask who we are and why we’re there – we tell them we’re from a local church and ask if they know why Jesus is such good news.

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Reaching South Asians in Italy

Ramesh pushed his bike along the dirt path in San Vito when I met him. I needed to ask for directions to find the Gurdwara and in his broken English offered to show me the way. As we walked together I got to know one of the many South Asians that live in Latina province, Italy.

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Bahen Sathe (with sisters)

So much of the South Asian culture is about learning by being around older sisters (bahen sathe) but, for those stepping into ministry, this support if often hard to find. With this in mind, I recently gathered a small group of sisters for an evening of food, prayer and sharing stories.

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Kevin Wren moves on from SAC

On 31 October the SAC team said ‘goodbye’ to Kevin Wren who had been our Director since January 2013. He has taken up a new role Head of Operations with Interserve UK.

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East + West at Lee Abbey, London

People of other faiths are open to hear our story of Jesus… I’d like to visit a Sikh Temple… When sharing faith, meet people where they are…

Recently Usha and I were privileged to get to know the community at Lee Abbey in London as we travelled with them through the East+West course.

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Reaching the World on your Doorstep

The face of Britain is changing. There are more people from ‘ethnic minorities’ living in London than those who would describe themselves as ‘white British’. In our streets, our work places and our churches we hear languages from around the world. And this creates a challenge for our evangelism. How do we reach out to […]

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The Roti – Bread that Unites

It is important in our discovery of interfaith engagement to remember that we begin with a shared story and this is no better illustrated than in the story of bread.

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The Decor of Democracy

Today a nine phase ballot begins, which will see 800 million eligible voters going (again) to the polls in an estimated 900,000 polling booths around India. Every five years India tops the record as the world’s largest democratic exercise.  It’s clear that India’s democracy is a great electoral success. India is a vast, heterogeneous, multi-cultural, […]