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By Hannah Chowdhry and Juliet Chowdhry A French Magazine concerned about the treatment of Christians in Pakistan submitted some questions to us.  You can read the actual article, which converts into several languages (click here).  Our full response can be read below: Christians are persecuted in Pakistan, like Hindus or Ahmadis… But are they proportionally more persecuted than other communities? There is no simple answer to this question unfortunately. Figures from the National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) recorded that 537 persons were accused under blasphemy laws during 1986-2015, 633 (47%) were Muslims, 494 were Ahmadi (37%), 187 were…

Badil Masih was killed at 10 years of age after being sodomized by his Muslim employers, his mother fought for justice but eventually caved in to threats and ceased a murder trial (click here).   Months later Sahrifah Bibi died and left behind her son Soojal who was 8 years old, extremely distraught and confused (click here). It took months to locate him but BACA did not give up and found him being passed around between uncles, and made to work for his upkeep (click here). BACA struggled with them and gained permission to admit soojal to a primary school near…

An independent report on the clashes between Muslim and Hindu Youth in Leicester during August 2022, states that misinformation  has stirred up anti-Hindu sentiment and placed Hindu Communities under threat. The report castigates mainstream media for reliance on two of the Muslim influencers who have spewed the false information about widescale Hindutva (Hindu fascism) amongst Leicester’s youth, ‘perpetuating the threat against the Hindu community’  The report also debunks accusations  that Hindu youth had  links to hardline political group Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) despite numerous social media inputs by Muslims who wanted to fan the flames of hate.   The author suggests…

Does your church offer effective support to bereaved people?  And do you know where to access bereavement support if needed? Through my work with Loss and HOPE for the Christian bereavement charity AtaLoss, I have been contacting churches to find out how they are supporting bereaved people, and how we can offer help through providing training and resources.  We would love to hear from those churches in the British Asian Christian Association’s network around the UK about how you have been supporting bereaved people.  We have much to learn, but we also have much to share.  See more here The…

The war in Ukraine surprised people across the globe when it began despite attempts at diplomacy.  The first major war on European soil since the Bosnian War in the 1990’s.  The war has now been raging for almost a year and shows no signs of letting up, despite severe international sanctions being placed on Russia and their wealth oligarchs by most of the rest of the world.  Diplomatic meetings between Russia and Ukraine have yielded little hope for an early end to the war.  Attempts by Russia to end Ukrainian resistance through targeted attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure have…

A Christian college student from Pakpattan, Pakistan was filmed being forcefully raped, and was then blackmailed into undergoing further rapes by 8 Muslim sexual predators in the area. Despite evidence to the contrary local police have declared 7 of the rapists innocent in an investigation report. The family of the victim are the only Christian family in the area  and are receiving daily threats from influential people demanding they drop the case. https://youtu.be/ypp3Nv5JHL4 Please sign our petition for Zahid Masih (click here) Zahid Masih(17 yrs) is a second year student at Superior College, Pakpattan.  His college is in the city…

Willow Chowdhry (12 yrs)  has been serving homeless people regularly since October 2020. Our young volunteer has enjoyed serving hot meals and drinks to up to 45 people a day and setting up and distributing a food bank. Willow generally only volunteers on Saturdays but has participated a few times after school, as she has to travel with her mother Juliet Chowdhry when her coach arrives late from the grammar school she attends over 30 miles away from her home. The experience has been very rewarding for Willow who one day hopes to become a brain surgeon or an F1…

British Asian Christian Association has been running our ‘Meals for the Needy’ project since 23rd January 2020 (click here). The project initially began as table-seated event and at our peak we had over 21 people attending within 2 months of beginning our project (click here). Many homeless, however believe our outreach began much earlier when we conducted a series of monthly community events under the title of Redbridge Festival in Ilford Town Centre (click here). The events united many local churches of varying denominations in a programme of community action and prayer (click here).  The events ensured monthly healings took…

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 on an unsubstantiated report declaring his guilt, made by police in the…

Record breaking floods wreaked havoc across Pakistan killing over 1300 people and destroying the homes of 3 million people in from June to September 2022. BACA reached out and provided help with tents, food and Mosquito nets to 13 Christian villages (click here) and (here).  We have also installed two clean water pumps (click here) and (here) while a third is to be installed. We have now began a series of medical camps to curb the waterborne infections that have brought these communities to their knees. The historic 2022 monsoon inundation left at least 10 Christian villages without food, water…