Image of Pakistan’s first, youngest and longest serving teenage blasphemy prisoner with BACA staff and advocate on 18th December outside Pattoki Court. Nabeel Masih was only 16 when he was arrested in 2016 and imprisoned for an alleged blasphemy. Image: Nabeel at 16 years of age months before his arrest and 4 year imprisonment for a falsely alleged blasphemy. After three years in prison and many failed appeals while under the care of other Christian charities, Nabeel chose to seek help from British Asian Christian Association (click here). BACA were able secure bail for Nabeel within a year allowing him…
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Image: Flanked by Advocate Naseeb Anjum Left and a BACA officer right, Nawab Bibi (72 yrs) attends court hoping and praying for her husbands freedom. We wrote about the impending death sentence for Zafar Bhatti. This was being sought in Rawalpindi Sessions Court, by extremists intent on making the elderly Christian convict the first ever man lynched under the notorious blasphemy laws of Pakistan. Read more (here). We have been working with our solicitor in a last gasp attempt to save him from a hanging. Zafar in October gave up with his former legal counsel and sought our assistance . …
The father of a Christian man killed by Muslims for defiling the purity of water from a tube well they owned, has now been accused of kidnapping the son of one of the murderers named Haji Muhammad Razaq. It is believed that the alleged kidnap is an attempt to thwart the current murder proceedings which MR Razaq is currently involved in. Mr Masih now faces the ignominy of a trial for kidnap which he is completely innocent of, despite absolutely no evidence that he has been involved in a crime. Saleem Masih was only 22 years old when he was…
The defence council for the rapist of a 6 year old Christian child in Lahore, Pakistan failed to attend a court hearing on 2nd December 2021, for the sixth time. During the hearing Judge Iftikhar Ahmed expressed great disappointment in the repeated failure for a defence council representative to attend court or to have a defence. He also confirmed that failure to attend and introduce a defence before the winter holidays will result in the appointment of a public prosecutor. The next hearing has been scheduled for 16th December 2021 and should the defence council fail to attend a public…
In 2017, an article in the Ilford Recorder calling for the return of a Christmas Nativity to Ilford, spurred teenager Hannah Chowdhry into action. The article illustrated that people of other faiths wanted a similar introduction of a nativity. It was evident that local people were still inspired by the Christian account of Jesus’ birth, which is imbued in English culture and tradition around the month of December (not actual date but when Christians choose to remember Christ’s birth). Read more (here) You can donate towards our Christmas Nativity Project via this crowd fund (click here) The article was in…
Image of Juliet Chowdhry under our dazzling Christmas lights. As we get closer to December 25th the date on which Christians choose to celebrate the birth of Christ, we have been fortunate to have secured a few more partnerships that are improving our work with the homeless. In the image above you can see that in collaboration with Wattani Box a local Afghan restaurant opposite Clementswood Community Centre, we have been able to install Christmas lights that bring some cheer to the local community. Not least our own homeless visitors who have never had anything like it at the places…
A mob of infuriated Muslims lynched a Sri Lankan man named Priyantha Kumara (49 yrs), who was working at a factory on Wazirabad Road, Sialkot. In the heightened frenzy, hundreds of Muslim men kicked and hit the dead body of Mr Kumara, while taking selfies and sharing them on social media. Priyantha Kumara was working as a General Manager in Rajko Industries where sportswear and goods are manufactured and had been working there for over 7 years. From the sound of his name Mr Kumara would seem to be a Hindu and like the existing Christian and Hindu Minority in…
We wrote about our concerns for the church after Police investigators became stumped by the motives of the Liverpool terrorist who unintentionally blew himself up in a taxi on Remembrance day (click here for recap). It is postulated that the terrorist was targeting the Remembrance Day service at Liverpool Cathedral. It is also believed that an accidental trigger or overstepping a timer due to traffic delay, caused the detonation in the taxi. Police have since confirmed that the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was packed with ball bearings and was definitely created to maim, injure or kill civilians. So this was not a…
The refugee and asylum seekers in Thailand were just beginning to recover from the latest COVID-19 lockdown in Bangkok, when the threat of the new Omicron variant emerged. https://youtu.be/Om1AmP_qocY At the moment around 7000 cases of COVID-19 infections every day, which is worrying for the asylum seeker community. The Royal Thai Government (RTG) relaxed their processes to allow asylum seekers to be vaccinated under pressure from humanitarian groups and international bodies. However, initially the Pak-Christians and other asylum seekers were reluctant to take part in the vaccination programme for fear of arrest. However BACA has been encouraging more of…
Zafar Bhatti (56 yrs) has spent almost ten years of his life in Prison and has now become the longest serving blasphemy convict in Pakistan. Several Christian charities have failed in freeing him from prison and Zafar Bhatti has now turned to British Asian Christian Association for help. Tomorrow (2nd December 2021) our appointed solicitor will begin a bail application for release of Zafar Bhatti who is a diabetic patients and has declining health. His elderly wife Nawab Bibi (72 yrs) has been supported by BACA for 3 years and is praying for his release so they may unite for…