In late October, only a month and a half before Christmas, Christians living in the slums of Islamabad were forced to watch as a provincial Government agency destroyed their homes. Read more (here). Christian homes were destroyed because they were ugly, whereas Muslim homes made of similar construction were left standing, in an action that was highly discriminatory. The demolition took place despite Islamabad High Court and the Supreme Court of Pakistan having previously refused applications to bulldoze homes in the area. Read more (here) and (here). It is not known if any court has sanctioned the demolition, however, the…
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A dispute over the right for sewage water that that passed by the home of a Christian family 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. His mother Ishrat Bibi however, was shown leniency for her age. This despite the fact that she had begun the argument and called for her son to murder Usman and Yasmeen. …
Several Christian families in Pakistan have benefitted from items no longer needed by our supporters in England. Two of the bags of clothing we sent during COVID-19 reached Pakistan last week just days before Christmas and we have been able to distribute them in Lahore, amongst deprived communities linked to St John’s Church. Our helpers, first washed the clothes, than organised them by size and and then invited local families to come and take what they wanted. There have been shoes, shirts, and trousers and much more that will ensure struggling families have much less to worry about. Many of…
Image: One of our volunteers distributes food, while others locate the correctly labelled gifts with Christmas cards, Christmas crackers and other gifts. Homeless and economically deprived people in Ilford received a Christmas boost on 16th December, when our official celebration of Christ’s birth took place. Hot turkey meals, with roast potatoes were provided, and vegetarian meals were given to visitors with gravy and other sauces provided in small pots, so that meals could be individualized to meet specific desires. The meals were given in boxes with encouraging Bible verses written on to each lid and each visitor received, drinks, some…
Image: Javaid Sadiq After a grating 9 years waiting for asylum in Thailand a disabled Pak-Christian finally finds refuge in Canada. In 2014, the family fled to Thailand to escape persecution, after Javaid Sadiq (40 yrs) and Pervais Sadiq (43 yrs) two brothers, were accused of blasphemy. Both men had been working in a stitching factory in Karachi and identified that a Muslim supervisor was stealing garments from their employer. When one brother approached the supervisor and asked him to stop stealing the brothers found themselves accused of insulting Muhammed. Both brothers faced beatings, avoided arrest, while being shunted between…
Image: Two car batteries and a 12v – 220v inverter that power lights and sound equipment in Pastor Vasilev’s Church at Odessa, Ukraine. British Asian Christian Association has been providing a regular gift to a church in Ukraine since the outbreak of war with Russia on 24th February 2022 (click here). We also sponsored work with Ukrainian asylum seekers in Moldova (click here). In July we shared details of how Pastor Vasilevwas running daily services to reach souls, during unceasing war in Ukraine (click here) We wrote last month explaining our desire to increase our effort in Ukraine to help…
Last week we looked back at nearly 3 years of our Meals for the Needy Project that provides hot meals and a food bank for visitors to Clementswood Community Centre, in Ilford. You can read our report (here) Young Willow Chowdhry (12 yrs), has taken over from her sister Hannah (18 yrs) as one of the coordinators of our Meals for the Needy Project. Every week, she sets up food tables, helps to organise the queue outside the Centre and she has recently been interviewing some of the visitors, to gauge how successful our services have been. Here is a…
Image: The family of Danish Masih – please help us bail out this young family and others before Christmas. Royal Thai Police have begun the first national crackdown on illegal immigrants since the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown (click here). During one raid Police arrested 6 Pak-Christian Asylum Seekers including a girl aged 11. The mother of the 11 year old has reached out to British Asian Christian Association, to seek help with removal of her child from the Bangkok Immigration Detention Centre. Frightened asylum seekers cease black-market work and isolate themselves in grubby undersized condos, suffering even harder economic poverty as…
Islamabad’s Capital Development Authority (CDA) and Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) have bulldozed 115 houses of Christian slum dwellers of Nawaz Sharif Colony at H-9/2 Islamabad Authorities left all Muslims houses in the same slum untouched while targeting the homes of deprived Christian sewage, drainage and domestic cleaning workers. During the operation, demolition workers stole woven charpai (rope beds), blankets, kitchen utensils and other valuable items. Officers have told Christian leaders they plan to resume the operation immediately after Christmas. Over 115 families have been forced to live in tents, and other make-shift homes in the bitter cold of Islamabad’s winter.…
BACA celebrated the birthday of Sonia (12 yrs) one of the orphaned children of Shama and Shahzad, slaves who were burned alive in a brick kiln in 2014. Read more (here). The enslaved couple were accused of blasphemy by the accountant of their master who had raped Shama and wanted to escape conviction. The accountant persuaded local mosques to foment a mob to kill them, resulting in over 5000 people beating them, breaking bones, raping Shama in front of her husband, before dragging the naked couple behind a tractor and throwing them in a brick kiln alive. BACA has provided…