A Christian father of five children was beaten to death by police officers, who it is alleged where attempting to thwart justice in a murder case that involved a Muslim man with strong family connections within the local police authority. Younis Masih (58 yrs) was beaten during a police interrogation at his home at approximately 1am on 21st June 2020, after being falsely investigated for drug dealing with two sons. This was despite no evidence of any wrongdoing being found after a search of his home and no previous history of any crime. During the search of his home Younis…
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BACA has returned to our community centre to serve food for the homeless. We have reduced our days to 4 days a week with a hot meal service now being served from 6pm on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Our Meals for the homeless project had taken place on the car park of the Prince of Wales Pub during the COVID-19 lockdown. But since the easing of lockdown measures on we have been back at Clementswood Community centre. To keep users and deliverers of the service safe we ask all visitors to wear masks and now provide free masks to…
A man accused of blasphemy was killed in court during his trial proceedings. Tahir Ahmed Nasim was shot dead during his trial for blasphemy in Peshawar when Khalid Khan calmly walked up to the defendant, shooting him six times in front of shocked onlookers, before being overpowered by security. Mr Nasim was on trial after being arrested for blasphemy when a video of him claiming to be a prophet was put onto social media that then went viral. Khalid Khan who claimed to have had a vision of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in a dream, said Muhammad asked him to…
A BACA food parcel distribution operation reached a further 120 families despite the Coronavirus challenges thanks to God. On Tuesday Pakistan reported their lowest number of daily infections by coronavirus, as well as fatalities linked to the disease in a 24 hour period. Official statistics showed 553 more deaths raising the overall death toll to 5,957, whereas the number of infections reached 279,699. Pakistan is among a handful of countries where cases of COVID-19 have dropped considerably in recent weeks. However, health experts have cautioned that this could be the result of fewer tests. Pakistani Authorities have imposed a lockdown…
Christians in Pakistan, mainly in the poor rural areas and mainly girls, are regularly being attacked while trying to access the basic need of water. To counter the paucity of clean water and safe toilet facilities BACA have recently completed two new electric pump generated water and toilet facilities. BACA began the installation of two clean water and toilet facilities with generated pumps for the Christian communities of Rao Khan wala, a village in Kasur, serving 7 Christian families and 35 individuals, in January. But work had to stop during the lockdown. Since the lockdown has been eased BACA have…
Aleeza the youngest survivor of the Quetta suicide bomb attack (click here), which killed nine people and injured dozens who were worshipping at Bethel Memorial Methodist Church’ on 17th December 2017, requires a new prosthetic leg. Her survival is a modern day miracle after shrapnel pierced her body and left her gangrenous and close to death only days later. BACA intervened and with some help from God and many of our supporters we were able to save her life (click here) At a very early age she also had to have a very painful and intricate operation to join her intestine to her…
By Ali Hasnain A Christian medical student was denied his place at university despite achieving the required marks. Kamran Safdar claims Muslim students with lower grades were awarded seats simply because they had memorised Hafiz-e-Quran. The son of a fruit hawker from Sargodha, District of Punjab in Pakistan, Kamran Safdar’s ambition of becoming a doctor was shattered despite securing the appropriate entrance level of his chosen medical university with an 89% pass in his intermediate high school exam – even though his fellow Muslim students were accepted on lower grades. As a result, he was forced to retake the year…
By Hannah Chowdhry On 30th June 2020, I was able to attend a zoom panel with the Deputy Mayor of London for ‘Social Integration, Social Mobility and Community Engagement’, Debbie Weekes-Bernard, as a volunteer for the BACA. We were invited to talk about how the Pakistani community has been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. The invite said: “We invite British Pakistani Christian Association to a discussion on impact of COVID-19 on the Pakistani Community and how City Hall can address this issue for your community as we develop responsive recovery plans post COVID 19. We would be delighted if your…
By Desmond Fernandes The UK government last week sought to project itself as the champion of religiously persecuted people worldwide when it announced its Global Human Rights sanctions regime targeting those involved in religious persecution. The announcement was made during a House of Lords webinar titled the ‘Anniversary of the Launch of the Independent Review of FCO Support for Persecuted Christians’ which was attended by Hannah Chowdhry from the BACA with around 600 other guests. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab sought to reassure the public and human rights organisations that “everyone, no matter their faith or belief, deserves to be able…
Hannah Chowdhry an Essex and Redbridge Youth Councillor warns that black men are being treated unfairly by police stop and searches, as current police data reveals that searches of white and Asian men in London, has a higher yield of success. The death of George Floyd, a 44-year-old Afro-American, while being arrested by Minneapolis Police was internationally condemned for the exhibited police brutality in videos, that were shared across social media. For 8 minutes and 46 seconds, a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, pressed his knee to the neck of Mr Floyd who was lying face-down and who was already handcuffed with…