Following the joyous news of Christian Asia Bibi’s release from jail in the early hours of Wednesday 8th May, we highlight the plight of a Christian Pakistani couple who have also been facing execution in a Pakistan prison for five years. Please sign our petition (click here) Shagufta Kousar and Shafqat Masih were sentenced to death on 4th April 2014 following a court trial where they were accused of sending blasphemous text under Islamic law to a Muslim man. Now Shagufta is imprisoned at Multan Jail and Shafqat is 150 miles away at Faisalabad District Jail both have have not seen…
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Hannah Chowdhry BCyA (behind pole), speaking at a Redbridge Faith Forum vigil at the Redbridge Peace Monument in 2018 Please sign our petition (click here) Support Hannah Chowdhry’s teen non-alcoholic bar project by donating (here) mark donations Teen Bar. We now projects like this work as we have had success before (click here), (here) and (here) My name is Hannah Chowdhry, I am 15 years old and I am a young Essex Youth Councillor who is volunteering for the British Pakistani Christian Association(BPCA). Hannah was presented with a British Ciizen youth Award last year In the wake of a further two teenagers killed on Friday…
Mohammed Fayad (police photo) Alleged rapist Mohammed Fahad has been on the run from Toronto police in Canada for 3 weeks and could possibly be in Pakistan TORONTO: Mohammed Fahad (35) of Etobicoke, Ontario in Canada has been on the run from the police since the Family Day holiday when he failed to meet his bail conditions to stay home between 8pm and 8 am unless accompanied by one of his chaperones, and it is just being reported now. Fahad did not return to his Dixon Rd apartment, violating his curfew condition, and his chaperones, including three of his four chaperones who…
Sex attacks, child rape, and grooming are increasing being tolerated by judges who say perpetrators who have a poor command of English or whose religion or culture teaches them sexual assault is not wrong and that abuse of woman and girls is normative, are not morally culpable, in a disturbing trend that means open season on British women and girls UK Tolerance for sex attacks by abusers with limited English skills or with different cultural values is a growing issue among the judiciary in both the UK and Canada, where judges are either refusing to convict or giving shockingly low penalties even…
Photo Caption: Vikram’s father, with Vikram John, Wilson, and Juliet Chowdhry in Turkey to help with medical service Vikram Alvin whose eye was severely damaged during an assault by a violent mob in Sept 2018 was recently in Turkey receiving medical care paid for by British Pakistani Christian Association, but doctors were unable to restore his sight TURKEY: On the 18th August 2018 a 2nd year chemical engineering student and resident of KDA 2, Mehmoodabad, Karachi, was beaten so badly by a mob of young Muslim men accompanied by an Islamic cleric, that he lost his sight. The mob using rods, clips and stick…
A young Pakistani Christian teen named Sadaf Masih has been kidnapped and forced into Islamic marriage Please sign our petition (click here) A young girl barely in her teens, Sadaf Amir also known as Sadaf Masih (13 yrs), of Cholistan, Wichra Bangla, Bahawalpur was abducted on 6 February 2019 by influential Muslims Maqbool Hussain, Mubashir Hussain Baloch and Azhir Hussain Baloch. Following the kidnapping the perpetrators’ family informed Sadaf’s family she had been taken but promised, that that they would bring her back. Wanting to believe them and fearing an altercation, Sadaf’s family waited 8 days to hear whether the kidnappers…
200 Christian families from a predominately Christian neighbourhood in Karachi where displaced by a violent mob after 4 women falsely accused of blasphemy. The accuser and her husband have been arrested but Christians are being pressure not file an FIR. KARACHI: An angry mob of Muslim displaced 200 Christian families from their homes in a majority Christian neighbourhood – the Farooq-e-Azam neighborhood of Karachi, Pakistan – after a spurious blasphemy accusation on 19 February, 2019, against four Christian women that was later proven false. Fayaz and Samina Riaz, a Muslim couple living in that community, were asked by their Christian…
Religious bigotry in Pakistan’s education system makes schools a dangerous place for minority Christian students Please sign our petition calling for better protection of Christian children in Pakistani schools (click here) KARACHI: Muslim students in Karachi Pakistan attempted to murder their Christian classmate Haroon Irfan (15 yrs) when they descended on him in a brutal stabbing that left his kidney severed into two pieces. The parents of students in question sought to immediately press the victim’s family not to pursue charges and were joined by the police in their efforts. Haroon’s father claims that local police refused to register a First…
Although Nissar Hussain and Wilson Chowdhry were invited to speak at the ‘Losing My Religion’ event held by the Secular Party of Australia (SPA) on 9th February 2019, the group apparently omitted taking images of the two speakers. We accept this was an accident and not a direct result of them being the only Christian speakers at a secular event and thank SPA for allowing us to participate. The Image is of Harris Sultan who coordinated the event. Though this simple survey is by no means comprehensive and the data could be will be further analysed, I believe it is…
Jihadi bride’s sob stories elicit sympathy, but these women have no regrets for their luridly complicit role in IS atrocities Please sign our petition calling for reform of International Law precepts regarding statelessness (click here) UK: Security and intelligence professionals are questioning the good sense of allowing Islamic State defectors who ran away to marry jihadis and establish a Caliphate, and the UK Home Office is finally following suit. MI6 Alew Younger told the Evening Standard that jihadi brides are a threat to public safety (click here). “As we approach this admittedly extremely complex and difficult problem, public safety is the first thing…