Pastor William Siraj and Pastor Patrick Naeem were shot at by gunmen on two motorcycles while driving home after a service At All Saints Church, Peshawar, yesterday. Read more (here). All Saints Church also witnessed a terrorist attack in 2013 and BACA were actively involved in bringing comfort and solace to over a 100 families at the time. Read more (here) and (here). Video of funeral ceremony for Pastor William Siraj On Sunday 30th January 2022, Pastor William and his assistant Pastor Naeem finished their church service, locked their building and headed homeward to Kohati, where pastor William Siraj lives.…
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Hannah Chowdhry, Communications Officer for British Asian Christian Association, visited All Saints Church in Wolverhampton, to share an update on BACA’s work in Pakistan. Whereas, previous talks with the Asian Christian Church led by Pastor Teerth Sond has been filled with tragedy and pain, on this occasion Hannah shared updates on positives that have occurred since our last visit. Hannah started with a full report on freedom for former blasphemy convict Asia Bibi, who escaped a 9 year brutal captivity in a Pakistani prison cell, on All Hallows Day 2018 (31st October 2018). Hannah described our help with the asylum…
A Pastor who has travelling home after leading a church service at Church in Peshawar was shot dead in an attack on Sunday 30th January 2022. A pastoral assistant who was also shot in the same attack survived with minor injuries and was treated in Lady Reading Hospital, before being discharged. This is the same hospital that treated victims of the twin suicide bombing in Peshawar in 2013 (click here). Pastor William Siraj and Pastor Patrick Naeem PESHAWAR, Pakistan Gunmen killed a Christian vicar and wounded another as the clergymen drove home from church in Pakistan’s north-western city of Peshawar…
Image: Father Yunas Masih (65 yrs), BACA officer and Mother Shareefa Bibi (62 yrs) after the pleasing guilty verdict of their son’s murders. British Asian Christian Association, have successfully supported another Christian family through a difficult murder case despite dozens of court postponements. The parents of a young Christian man who just before dying, told his parents he was raped by two Muslim friends and then had a high pressure air nozzle shoved into his anus, have expressed their satisfaction at a court decision on 25th January to impose life sentences on both murderers. This success and the speed of…
Image of Nawab Bibi outside Adiala Jail, Rawlpindi, with the regular goods that British Asian Christian Association has been providing for Zafar Bhatti. 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 evidence suggests he…
DofE volunteer Naomi Chowdhry helping one of our regular visitors receive some food. We have had a very difficult period trying to run our homeless centre while our main volunteer Rajeshri Chouhan has been off recovering from a very severe bout of COVID-19. Rajeshri had been double vaccinated but was hit hard by the virus after spending time with her sister for Christmas. Juliet Chowdhry had to manage the centre on her own for a while, but her daughter Naomi Chowdhry has been helping on some days, as she works towards her bronze award for the Duke of Edinburgh Award…
British Asian Christian Association continues to collect and send unwanted clothes, toys, household goods and other useful items to deprived families in Pakistan. We are able to collect items from any home in London as long as they are willing to pay the cost of fuel for our driver to travel from Ilford to your home, office or other venue. We can only collect items that are reusable, clean, operational and of value to the families that we support. In Pakistan we work with several churches in Lahore to ensure that needy families are aware of how and where to…
Image: Shabir Masih now lives alone. 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…
Mika Niikko, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Parliament of Finland has written to Riaz Fatyana, Chair of the Standing Committee on Law and Justice, National Assembly of Pakistan in regards to the verdict to apply a death sentence to Zafar Bhatti, Pakistan’s longest serving blasphemy victim. Despite any evidence other than a forced confession under a brutal police interrogation. Every other physical an forensic evidence indicates Zafar Bhatti is innocent. Pakistan law adheres to the same ideals as English law requiring criminal cases to be proven beyond reasonable doubt. But this case from the outset has been doubtful and the…
BACA wrote to our supporters just before Christmas and explained how the orphans of Shama and Shahzad a Christian couple burned alive in a brick kiln, were seeking two laptops to help with their education. Read more (here) https://youtu.be/mt9HO3ZYB28 BACA have remained very much a part of this families life from the beginning of the childrens’ troubled life without their parents. Our live-in-nanny funded through your donations has ensured the three children have had a maternal figure in their lives and they love her to bits. Our officers regularly visit the family to make sure they are growing strong as…