Images lost during transfer of our website from the Adobe Business Catalyst portal to Wordpress in September 2021, when the Adobe platform terminated. A French reporter residing in Thailand contacted the BPCA after reading the on-line BBC report on Pakistani Christians in Thailand and the brutal crackdown by Royal Thai Authorities. Arnaud Dabus a correspondent focused on South East Asia called on the BPCA to help him share the plight of our long suffering minority amongst the French, Turkish, Thai and Spanish media groups he freelances for. Wilson Chowdhry had already planned a visit to Thailand to follow-up on our…
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BBC’s Chris Rogers has been undercover in Thailand to expose how the country treats its asylum seekers. Pakistani Christians fleeing extremist violence are among the second largest group of asylum seekers in Thailand. Many are routinely rounded up and sent indefinitely to immigration detention centres or locked up in jails. Their crime: to be seeking asylum, in a country which does not recognise refugees. Wilson Chowdhry Chairman of the British Pakistani Christian Association helped Chris Rogers, and organised direct contact with victims being helped by the BPCA. Lord Alton has shared this link that allows you to watch the BBC…
A Family reunited! From Left to right: Eashal Johnson, Johnson Masih, Reemal Johnson, Asia Johnson and Rumaisa Johnson. Asia Johnson (38 years) was arrested for overstaying her visa on 24th December 2015, she was placed in cuffs and was trundled across to a short term prison before being incarcerated in Bangkok’s notoriously brutal Immigration Detention Centre along with her two young daughters Reemal Johnson (7 years) and Eashal Johnson (3 years). PLEASE SIGN OUR PETITION (CLICK HERE) At the time of her arrest her husband, Johnson Masih (40 years) and daughter Rumaisa Johnson (6 years) were fortunately away from their…
Wilson Chowdhry Chairman of the British Pakistani Christian Association recently travelled to Bangkok with Chris Rogers of the BBC. Our help contributed to a secret video report of the re-persecution of Pakistani Christians in Thailand. Please watch the documentary this weekend detail can be viewed in the image above. Together they met with detainees in Bangkok’s terrible Immigration Detention Centre, a place visibly harsher then their notorious prisons. They met with asylum seekers in their homes and heard harrowing accounts of their suffering and oppression in Pakistan and the re-persecution of the fleeing victims in Thailand a place they had hoped to…
In 1904/5 Wales experienced an outbreak of Revival, which had tremendous effects on many parts of the British Isles. This was followed by a mighty visitation of the Holy Spirit, which fell simultaneously on many parts of the world and many received the baptism of the Holy Spirit with signs following. As a result, various Pentecostal groups worldwide were formed, they believed that the gifts of Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers of Ephesians 4:11, should operate in the church together with the nine gifts of the Holy Spirit spelt out in 1 Corinthians 12:1-11. The Apostolic Church was therefore…
Some images have been lost in the transfer of our website from the now terminated Adobe Business Catalyst web portal to Wordpress in 2021. A Pakistani Christian man has died whilst in custody of the notoriously brutal police force of Pakistan. Liaquat Masih (47 years) the victim in this recent devastating police crime had been serving as driver for Raza Hameed the son of Gujuranwala politician S.A. Hameed of ‘Pakistan Tehreek Insaaf’ (PTI), for fifteen years. Liaquat has been described as a model employee by other colleagues and was a devout Christian who attended church regularly and held the post…
While Pakistani Christian asylum seekers were overcoming the demoralizing loss of a dear sister Samina Faisal (click here), following alleged failures in duty of care leading to her death through kidney complications, another victim lost his fight for freedom. 53 year old Pervaiz Ghouri Masih who was suffering with a tumor and recurring heart condition, struggled with the lack of nourishment and cold, dingy, insalubrious overcrowded cells of Thailand’s notoriously brutal Immigration Detention Centre (IDC), which cumulatively were just too much for his frail body to take. A father of six daughters, Pervaiz was arrested alone while resting at home…
Image a European Union delegation was escorted by BPCA officer Shamim Masih A Christian slum community in Islamabad are in danger of being evicted from their homes, which will be demolished without any compensation, if the Capital Development Authority (CDA) are successful The CDA have submitted a typo-ridden document to the Supreme Court of Pakistan which Dawn Newspaper, compares to a Trump-like diatribe (click here). Islamabad’s CDA have submitted a five-page report to the Supreme Court of Pakistan describing Christians as unskilled, unproductive “land grabbers”, who have erected “ugly villages on the scenic landscape of Islmabad “One of the most…
Image shown above is taken at our former School On 18th October 2015 after a large coordinated raid by Thai Immigration and the local army base at the condominium where our school for asylum seekers was based in Sutthisan, Bangkok, we had to make the despairing situation to close down the school and relocate. 12 people were arrested in the raid including all the able males and any single females. In a state of terror and fear those who escaped the raid dispersed into different areas of Bangkok. Our volunteer teachers and the participant children were of course residents of…
Waqas Masih arrived in Bangkok in 2012 and called across his fianceé, Nomi Waqas, who was the love of his life. Waqas was escaping a blasphemy allegation and Nomi just wanted to be with him wherever he was, so the journey was simply meant to be a new beginning. Their life as a married couple started well despite the difficulties of life in Thailand where asylum seekers and refugees have no human value. When Nomi accidentally became pregnant, the couple felt they could not do anything but trust in God that they could bring her up safely. Unfortunately disaster struck…