Image of Nabeel Masih aged 16A man who was just a teenager when arrested for blasphemy in 2016 is calling for help with towards a solicitor to succeed with an appeal against his conviction. Please sign our petition to end Pakistan’s blasphemy (click here)On 17th September 2016, 16 year old teenager Nabeel Masih from the village of Kasur, was accused of an internet blasphemy after it was said that an image of the Kabba (holy shrine at Mecca) with a pigs head over it, was displayed on his Facebook page. This lead to a campaign by local mosques to lynch…
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Agile and mobile Aleeza has not let the loss of a limb limit her – some images have been lost during transfer of website in 2020. Aleeza Masih who was only 1.5 years old when she lost a limb in the carnage of the Quetta Bomb attack has had her new limb installed, thanks to the help of donors who contributed to her continued progress. Read more (here) Aleeza is a very bright girl and has adapted well to every limb replacement she has received from us and is very independent we are told by her mother. Mehiwsh Bhatti our National Executive…
Image of Badil murdered child labourer pronounced dead at Allied Hospital, Faisalabad. Please sign our petition demanding justice for Badil (click here) 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. Mohammad Akram and Irfan, nicknamed Kalo, were both arrested in Sarghoda on the 14th July, for the murder of Badil Shahzad, from the viallage of Rasheedabad in Essa Nagri, Faisalabad. Badil, the son of…
mage of Badil murdered child labourer pronounced dead at Allied Hospital, Faisalabad. Please sign our petition demanding justice for Badil (click here) 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. Mohammad Akram and Irfan, nicknamed Kalo, were both arrested in Sarghoda on the 14th July, for the murder of Badil Shahzad, from the village of Rasheedabad in Essa Nagri, Faisalabad. Badil, the son…
Hannah Chowdhry, a long-term British Asian Christian Association volunteer has received a Diana award for her social action and humanitarian work. On 15th July 2019 at a lavish ceremony at the Welsh Assembly in Cardiff, Hannah Chowdhry from Chigwell, Essex, received her certificate for her Diana Award from HM Lord-Lieutenant of South Glamorgan, Morfudd Meredith. Hannah had to postpone her original certification date on the 1st of July at Westminster, due to being in the middle of her Duke of Edinburgh Award Silver Expedition (click here). Hannah has always been a very community-spirited person, intent on improving the locality where she…
Nissar Hussain and Wilson Chowdhry at the Foreign Office Launch of the Global Christian Persecution Review Read the final full report (here) British Asian Christian Association welcome the release today and findings of the final report of the Independent Review – established by the Rt Hon Jeremy Hunt MP, HM Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and chaired by the Bishop of Truro, Rt. Rev. Philip Mounstephen – which have sought to map the extent and nature of the global persecution of Christians; to assess the quality of the response of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and to make…
BISHOP OF TRURO’S INDEPENDENT REVIEW FOR THE FOREIGN SECRETARY OF FCO SUPPORT FOR PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS FINAL REPORT and RECOMMENDATIONS Rt. Rev. Philip Mounstephen Bishop of Truro © Crown Copyright 2019 !2 Contents: 1. Preface…………………………………………………………………………………4 2. Introduction&Acknowledgments……………………………………….6 3. Methodology of the Review & Report………………………………..9 4. ‘The Persecution Problem’: Introduction…………………………12 a. The Interim Report………………………………………………….13 b. Introduction to Focus Countries……………………………. 52 i. Iraq……………………………………………………………….53 ii. Nigeria………………………………………………………….60 iii.Indonesia………………………………………………………67 iv. China…………………………………………………………….73 v. Sri Lanka……………………………………………………….80 vi. Pakistan………………………………………………………..84 vii.Syria……………………………………………………………..93 c. Written & Oral Submissions: Methodology and Summary Conclusions…………………………………………………………….101 5. Analysing FCO Response: Introduction………………………………105 a. ‘User’ Survey: questionnaire and commentary…………………………………………………………….106 b. Survey of FCO posts: questionnaire and commentary…………………………………………………………….112 c.…
A Pakistani pastor has been incarcerated in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Central Jail since July 2012, when police charged him with the offence of sending blasphemous text messages. On 3 May 2017, Pastor Zafar Bhatti (56 years) was sentenced to life imprisonment for blasphemy, a charge he adamantly denies. Rather peculiarly Pastor Zafar’s conviction occurred despite the mobile phone in question not being registered to his name. Please sign our petition calling for an end to Pakistan’s infamous blasphemy laws (click here) On 19 June, blasphemy victim Pastor Zafar’s appeal hearing was adjourned for the seventh time. On this occasion, the stated reason…
The British Asian Christian Association has published a 490 page book authored by Desmond Fernandes – Call it by its name: ‘Persecution!’ – that comprehensively analyses and documents the manner in which Christians have been – and continue to be – persecuted throughout Pakistan. For Saleh Memon, a member of the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities: “This book paints a truly horrific picture of the treatment of Christians in Pakistan, based on concrete evidence. It also shows how Pakistani politics have gone toxic when politicians and religious leaders are using extreme communalism to gain political leverage. It is clear that Christians are discriminated…
A Christian school which escaped the nationalisation programme of schools and colleges in Punjab Province instigated by Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1972, but was later usurped ilegally by a later Governor of Punjab, is struggling in the face of threats to release itself from the shackles imposed on it by the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkwa. The principal of the college had complained of threats to kill his family should he not conced the school to the provincial government. Edwardes College was established in 1900 by the Church Missionary Society (CMS) and was a private Christian College owned by…