In response to numerous emails from Indian, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan and Pakistani Christians, the British Pakistani Christian Association has created a new matrimonial website. ‘Shaadi4Christians’ seeks to change the dynamic of arranged marriages, whilst also creating global links that can stoke more independent romantic relationships leading to wholesome marriages. Read Christian Post article (click here) […]
Month: June 2016
Local Muslims aid small deprived Christian community build church
A Muslim community not far from Pakistan’s worst attack on a Chistian community have sought to help their fellow Pakistani citizens by assisting Christians in raising funds for a church. In 2009 the city of Gojra became a fiery furnace after 9 people including a bridegroom and bride were shot dead during a wedding ceremony. […]
Turning rags into riches!
Aftab Masih (40 years-old) was accused of blasphemy for drinking water from a local Mosque, an act that was said to have contaminated the water with evil spirits. Aftab lived near a local mosque and like many other local people, his family regularly drew water from the water tap outside the mosque as no other […]
Woman who lost foetus in violent attack now re-starting her life through new business.
Elishba Bibi was attacked by a Muslim family who refused to pay her the money she had earned for beautician work. Elishba was stripped naked and beaten with an iron rod causing her to miscarry while carrying her 5 month old foetus. To add insult to injury the brutal Muslim family stole her gold jewellery […]
No respite for Lahore Christians two years after mob attack on St Joseph’s community gun shots fired against church
BPCA officer Naveed Aziz surveys latest bullet holes in gates of St Joseph’s Catholic Church, Christians near St Joseph’s Catholic Church, Dhoopsari, Sandha in Lahore are no strangers to Islamic fundamentalism. The community was attacked, looted and partially burned in 2015 after a false allegation of blasphemy against currently incarcerated victim Humayun Masih. The province […]
No respite for Lahore Christians two years after mob attack on St Joseph's community gun shots fired against church
BPCA officer Naveed Aziz surveys latest bullet holes in gates of St Joseph's Catholic Church, Christians near St Joseph's Catholic Church, Dhoopsari, Sandha in Lahore are no strangers to Islamic fundamentalism. The community was attacked, looted and partially burned in 2015 after a false allegation of blasphemy against currently incarcerated victim Humayun Masih. The province […]
False media stories lead to arrest of more asylum seekers
Ten Pakistani Christians asylum seekers in Thailand were arrested yesterday from a place called Udom Suk. Among the arrested are a partially paralyzed man and a pregnant woman, and there is fear in the community that their health will be compromised under the brutal conditions of the Immigration Detention Centre, where 7 people have already […]
Compulsory Quranic study in Pakistani schools causes angst amongst beleaguered Christians
Pakistan’s increasingly extremist Government have recently announced that learning the Quran will be mandatory for school and college students of all ages. Moreover, 15 minutes of Quranic scripture recitations and prayers are to be conducted every day. Yesterday the State Minister for Federal Education and Professional Learning, Balighur Rahman said: We have already consulted over […]
Pak-Christian Asylum seeker set free after 9 month incarceration in brutal Thai detention centre
Mehwish Anna with her husband Sajjad Chand and daughters Sataish and Prisicla. A Pakistani Christian asylum seeker was set free after a brutal 9 month period of incarceration in the notorious Immigration Detention Centre of Bangkok. Mehwish Anna was arrested on 10th September 2015 after she ventured out of her home and went to a […]
Christian Ice-cream seller brutally beaten for fear of evil spirit contamination of ice-creams
Image of Khaleel Masih and his children Alisha (12 years), Rabia (11 years), Anisha (10 years), Mafia (6 years), Khalid (5 years), Sadia (4 years) at his home. A Christian man was brutally beaten by close to thirty Muslim men when he undertook his regular ice-cream rounds at a village in Kasur. Khaleel Masih (42 […]