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A Christian House Church was heckled and then members were attacked by several members of a Hindu Nationalist Youth Movement. Though the attack was instigated by the Hindu Youth, police arrested 4 men and 2 women from the church and have accused them of running a lottery, forced conversions and causing hurt.  Despite a paucity of evidence. BACA has video footage which we share below that proves otherwise but this is being ignored by ignorant and Christianophobic authorities. On Sunday March 13th, members of a church, meeting in Amlapur Village, Betul District, in the state of Madhya Pradesh were peacefully…

Qaiser and his family seek your help to pay overstay fines so they can finally end 10 year exile and enter new home in Australia. In August 2009 the community of Gojra was attacked by a Muslim mob of over 3000 after a Muslim man who coveted the bride declared a blasphemy had been committed at a wedding ceremony. Read more (here) Three local mosques had issued a fatwa against a whole Christian community and men left the mosque to wreak revenge on Christian homes. 75 – 100 homes and 2 churches were burned to the ground in the attack,…

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 on…

By Hannah Chowdhry Few people know the origins of Mothers Day, however it originally began in the UK as Mothering Sunday and was a day for celebrating your ‘Mother Church’ – the church of your baptism where you became a child of God. The festival was held on the 4th Sunday of lent starting sometime in the medieval period, and many people would visit the church were they began their life with God. In the early 1900’s a woman named Anna Jarvis, organized the first Mother’s Day service of worship and celebration at Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, West…

Badil Masih was sodomised and murdered by his employer Mr Mohammed Ikram and a cohort, in July 2019, for daring to seek full payment for work he had carried out at a scrapyard (click here). British Asian Christian Association stepped in to pay for legal costs, and support the family financially as they challenged for justice.  Despite clear evidence of a crime courts offered pre-arrest bail to the murderers who began to threaten the Christian family and key witnesses (click here). Though Badil’s mother  Shareefa remained stoic throughout the court process.  The witnesses were nobbled by the murderers and their cohorts.  They…

For over two years British Asian Christian Association have been providing free meals for homeless people, the economically deprived and refugees and asylum-seekers. We can serve up to 40 people a day and with the help of partner groups such as Westminster Drug Project we are even able to provide free counselling.  The NHS also occasionally undertake Hepatology tests at our centre. This month we have begun to see a rise in  the number of visitors to our centre, which now includes members of  new migrants from the Afghan and Ukrainian refugees communities. We are still collecting donations of clothes…

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 month 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.  The Christian Church has not stayed silent on the attacks which have been condemned by all…

We reported on the prayers being said across churches around the globe after President Putin of Russia began a war in Ukraine, in an earlier post.  In the same post we also shared the sacrifice being made by an Irish missionary couple, who chose to remain in Ukraine despite the threat to their safety.  Read more (here). That said, we later also shared a very disturbing account of how black and Asian students and citizens of Ukraine were receiving prejudicial treatment, during their attempts to flee the war. Evidence of the ‘different treatment’ was highlighted globally when United Nations’ high…

A senior Pastor was brutally shot dead and then had his neck sliced open by six extremist assassins, whilst at home. The attack in the village of Anganpalliguda, Bhopalpatnam/Taluk, in Bijapur District, Chhattisgarh State was witnessed by his terrified daughter-in-law. After the murderers had left the property one returned some 30 seconds later to stab the Pastor in the heart just to make sure he was dead.  A macabre act that illustrates the extent of hatred that can manifest towards Christians in India. On 17th March 2022 at approximately 8.30pm 6 unknown assassins knocked on the door of the home…

A Muslim antagonist of Christian community calls friends to help him flee with friend injured from attempted church vandalism. A Muslim fanatic climbed onto a church roof and chanted Islamic verses as he tried to terrorise a local community while vandalising a large cross. In his attempt to wrench the large cross from the church he fell off the building and was nursed by the Christians who gave him water and placed him on a charpai (rope bed), to help him recover while police arrived. You can watch his attempts to destroy the church while uttering Islamic chants here.  At…