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In 2015 we visited the community of Bhikiwind and built 10 brick homes for families who had suffered the devastating loss of their mud-homes and all their possessions, in brutal floods.  Read more (here). In August 2022 we revisited these homes to see if they had been able to survive the most brutal and mammoth inundation in Pakistan’s history. All videos in this article are in Urdu but an English translated video will be compiled and uploaded by 25th September 2022. After an extremely severe monsoon in 2015 destroyed 10 Christian Homes in Bhikiwind, Kasur, BACA appealed for help to…

Pakistan has been ravaged by the worst monsoon flood that they have had in their recorded history. The size and scale of the disaster shocked the nations leaders. Listen to TWR Radio report on Pakistan by clicking the link below: https://www.twr.org.uk/podcast/newsdesk-lite-2/ You will need to enter your name and email to register with TWR Radio but the service is free. 33 million people have been affected by deadly flooding across Pakistan.  Since the monsoon season began in mid-June, more than 1200 people have been killed of which 400 were children.  It has been estimated that 364,000 people were displaced by…

Heavy rainfall has killed over 1100 people and destroyed over 100,000 homes in Pakistan. Christians have historically told by Muslim charities that aid can only be received if they convert to Islam. One Christian village in which many mud homes were completely destroyed received no aid from the Government or local Muslim Charities.  Villagers believe this is because there are no Muslims living in the area. BACA has begun a food programme and has already given two weeks  food supply to 30 Muslim and 30 Hindu families.  More support is desperately needed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rBVToDlqzI&t=2s Video:  Video of thanks from local Pastors…

For over two years British Asian Christian Association have been providing free meals for homeless people, the economically deprived and refugees and asylum-seekers.  Our work began after Trustees became acutely aware of the growing homeless community in Ilford during a series of outreach events in Ilford Town Centre (click here). You can read a full review of our ‘Meals for the Needy’ project and watch videos (here).  It includes an account of how we grew the service by meeting the homeless on the streets were they took shelter. The current economic climate has resulted in a huge increase in the…

Since mid-June 2022, tens of thousands of people in Pakistan have been forced to flee their homes following deadly floods across Pakistan.  The most recent inundation has resulted in the country’s prime minister  warning that the “magnitude of the calamity is bigger than expected”.  This statement was tweeted while he was being filmed in a helicopter delivering aid to deluge-hit areas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bRw0neqh2k Video: Evangelist Dharmoo Masih at Goth Ibrahim Khan Mari where some 20 Christian families are living in mud houses, has appealed for support Nearly 1,000 people have been killed in the floods since it began in mid-June, which…

Image of Muqadas taken recently this year while 15 years old. A Christian girl was abducted  from her home on 17th July 2022 from the village of Haloki in Kasur. Later it was discovered that Muqadas Labha (15 yrs) was abducted by Muhammad Naveed (35 yrs) from Okara district, 150km away.  He had an accomplice name Muhammad Babar (32 yrs) who was also from the same village  as Muqadas – Haloki. Mr Naveed now claims the 15 year old child willingly eloped and has now converted to Islam, a ploy frequently used by Muslims to capture vulnerable Christian girls. Muqadas…

The war between Russia and Ukraine continues on with severe ferocity.  Little has come from attempted negotiations barring an agreement to secure safety for grain transport from the port of Odessa.  An agreement that was broken by the Russians on the day after it was ratified, when they targeted the port with missiles (click here).  An act which questions Russia’s credibility and commitment to the agreement that had been brokered by the UN and Turkey.  Since that attack however no further attacks have been made and grain exports are being made to help reduce the global grain crises that has…

On 18th July 2022, we appealed for donations to cover costs for a new prosthetic leg for Aleeza Masih. Aleeza is enetering a period of growth that means she now requires a replacement prosthetic leg every 6 months or she will feel excessive pain. Ashiq Masih (52 yrs) her father was hoping to have the leg replaced before Aleeza restarted her learning at “Excellence English Medium School”, where mobility is needed. However the leg could not be replaced in time as the road from Quetta to Karachi was blocked, due flood damage caused by monsoon rains in Baluchistan. The…

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.  No forensic evidence exists for any blasphemy by Zafar Bhatti, in fact every piece of physical and electronic evidence suggests he is innocent.  Zafar Bhatti however was convicted based…

A trivial dispute over the right for sewage water to travel past a Muslim shrine, resulted in the killing of a young Christian man and his mother.  Read more (here) In October 2021 almost a year after the murder of Usman Masih RIP (25 yrs) and Yasmeen Bibi RIP (55 yrs), the killer Hasan Shakoor Butt was sentenced to death, however his mother Ishrat Bibi was shown leniency for her age, despite having begun the argument and calling for her son to murder Usman and Yasmeen.  Read more (here) Shabir Masih widower of Yasmeen is now seeking a review of the decision…