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The success of our Meals for the Homeless project has continually drawn in new partners.  Since the beginning of March the local mosque opposite our centre have begun a programme of supplying groceries for our foodbank visitors once a month.  Their donations have been heling us improve the lives of families with local children and we hoe to continue this and other positive partnerships throughout the course of our operation. Sheikh Khalid, the Imam for the mosque, said: “I am grateful for the opportunity to work with British Asian Christian Association. “There work is very positive and has been changing…

Accused of blasphemy as a teenager Nabeel Masih was set free from prison on bail after a 2 year battle by BACA, who took over the case after several Christian charities failed to get any movement. Read more (here) Watch video of his release (here) if you cannot access the embedded video. Nabeel Masih (20 yrs) who was set free from prison on bail last week has now reunited with his family and he is in a safe place. But his release has revealed the significant pain he has had to endure after large lipomas began to develop all over his body, whilst…

Image taken as Nabeel was driving to his new home. They said it could not be done, several NGO’s failed but today British Asian Christian Association is proud to announce that Nabeel Masih a Christian Teenager of only 16 years old when convicted of blasphemy has been released from prison on bail. The young man now 20 years of age was smuggled to a place of secrecy early this morning and is now hoping to restart his life abroad, free from the threats of death that he faces in Pakistan. BACA hope to soon get Nabeel Masih a swift exit…

Nabeel Masih was 16 years old boy arrested for blasphemy on 18th September 2016 and had an original application for bail rejected while being supported by another charity. The frightened teenager was confronted by a mob of 80 Muslims baying for his blood and calling for him to be lynched for his alleged blasphemy. No arrests were made of any of the men who were inciting violence. Read more (here) and (here) BACA took over the legal challenge two years ago (click here) and supported his family through a very difficult process and periods of dangerous threats from his accusers and their cohorts. Nabeel Masih was…

The orphaned children of Shama and Shahzad who we have been providing with a full-time nanny since the murder of their parents in a brick kiln fire after first being brutally tortured, have called for help. Shama and Shahzad were burned alive before their children in 2014 (click here), after seeking escape from the landowners when Shama was raped by the Munshi (accountant) for the landowner where they were in brick-making indentured contracts (enslaved). Several charities including BACA have been protecting the 3 young orphans as they have grown up without parents. Our first instinct was to provide a qualified full-time…

Image of Nawab Bibi after Rawalpindi court hearing on 8th February. The plight of an elderly Blasphemy victim whose farcical charges for blasphemy should never have stood, is unable to get bail from Prison despite seriously declining health.  The conviction he received does not make sense as the phone and SIM from which blasphemous texts appeared where not even his.  Moreover he is illiterate and could not have texted in English making the whole delay a deeply concerning one with Zafar having lost 9 years of his life to a cruel and undeserved punishment. Zaffar Bhatti has been living in…

After a Christian girl of only six years was beaten and raped after being forcibly taken to the home of a Muslim man in broad daylight in September 2019, BACA stepped in to help- read more (here). We provided a solicitor and began the legal procedure to get justice, however the perpetrator Mr and his cohorts began  threatening the Christian parents with violence,  the rape of Tabitha and their other daughters and financial ruin if they proceeded with a legal case against paedophile Muhammad Waqas (18 yrs).  The threats heightened after the rapist was bailed despite clear evidence of his crime. As…

A ten year old Christian child who chose to work in a dangerous scrap factory so he could support his mother who had to fend for a family of two boys and a drug-addict husband, was raped and tortured before being killed by his Muslim employers. Our earliest report on Badil’s murder can be read (here) Several delays have halted progress with a murder trial and the men accused of the murder have already been released on bail and have been threatening the witnesses and the family of Badil Masih.  Read more (here), (here) and Requests to provide protection to the eye witnesses have…

Image of Ghafoor Masih who continues to fight bravely for justice for his murdered son. On 25th February 2020, Saleem Masih (22 years) was beaten to death for rinsing himself within a tube well that belonged to Muslim land owners in Chunian District, Kasur. Read original story (here) In less than a year, the slayers of innocent Saleem Masih were set free on bail by the court and his hapless father Ghafoor Masih, is facing prejudicial  treatment from the local police and judicial system. Though elderly and frail, Ghafoor Masih never misses a court hearing and has travelled above 60 Km to…

Disgusting screen shot taken from violent video illustrating how even ‘educated’ Muslims [Senior Hospital staff] in Pakistan hold despicable prejudice towards Christians. A Christian nurse was attacked by hospital personnel who then registered a case against her with local police on 29th January 2021. Initially local police at Araambagh Police Station refused to charge Nurse Tabeeta Nazir Gill (42 yrs).  They initially upheld that there was no evidence of a blasphemy a stance that was also upheld by Hospital Administrators who believed it to be a result of a personal grudge.  However pressure was applied by a Muslim mob including leading…