Burning carriages illustrate woeful safety practices on Pakistan Railway a vital travel resource. Hear Mehwish Bhatti’s full interview on UCB radio (click here) Our BPCA officer visited the burned out train A fire on a train from Karachi to Rawal Pindi has resulted in the death of 74 travellers at the last count and injured […]
Month: October 2019
Essex Youth Councillor meets Grays Councillor and signs book of condolence for 39 killed in Lorry
BACA Volunteer Hannah Chowdhry met with Cllr Gary Collins of Grays District Council where she signed a book of condolence which had earlier been signed by Boris Johnson. Last night Hannah Chowdhry an Essex Youth Councillor and BPCA volunteer met with Cllr Gary Collins who is on the Prevent Strategy Board for Grays Council and […]
BACA assist family of asylum seekers who mourn loss of 18 year old daughter to Systemic Lupus
Image: Distressed Pak-Christian asylum seekers after a raid at Santisuk Condo. A Refugee Family from Pakistan have sought the help of BACA to repatriate the corpse of their daughter back to Pakistan after she died of Systemic Lupus. Kazia Rehan, 18, first exhibited symptoms for the auto-immune disease in August 2019 at a time when […]

BACA reports now published by Bishop of Truro independent review team for Persecuted Christians
BACA’s submissions to the Bishop of Truro’s ‘Independent Review of Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) support for persecuted Christians’ are now available online We are pleased to note that two of the three submissions presented by the British Asian Christian Association (when it was called the British Pakistani Christian Association – BPCA) to the Bishop […]

Judge leaves court after telling blasphemy victim that he cannot preside over appeal as it hurts his Islamic convictions!
Image of Nawab bibi wife of Zafar Bhatti A Christian man who claims to be falsely accused of blasphemy and given a life sentence has had his appeal postponed for a third time in a year. Zafar Bhatti was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2012 after being arrested for blasphemy by police from Police station […]

BPCA raises concerns over the nature of British educational aid programmes to Pakistan
Juliet Chowdhry Trustee for the BACA (centre) meets with sisters Sherish and Farzana who survived a brutal gunpoint gang-rape. Sign our petition to stop UK foreign aid to Pakistan (here) BPCA has expressed a number of concerns to the International Development Committee parliamentary inquiry team examining the nature of British aid to Pakistan. In a […]

In Thailand we continue to support vulnerable mothers whose husbands are locked in IDC – with your help we can aid more!
In 2018 after one of the largest raids on an asylum seeker condo by Bangkok authorities led to the arrest of Humaira and her children British Asian Christian Association, helped Humaira and her children escape the brutal Bangkok Immigration Detention Centre. Since then we have been supporting her financially and like many other wives and […]

Four blasphemy victims you never knew BACA was supporting…
Image of Nabeel Masih only 16 when convicted for blasphemy. 8 years ago, Zafar Bhatti was arrested for allegedly sending blasphemous texts and has had to suffers several postponements to his appeal against charges which he has always refuted. Despite strong evidence that the initial accusation was false Zafar has been locked away in Adiala […]

BPCA submits a report to a UK parliamentary inquiry questioning the effectiveness and coherence of the UK Department for International Development’s aid programme for Pakistan
Juliet Chowdhry Trustee of the BPCA (nearest with poster of 125 Martyrs) at protest organised BPCA after twin bomb attack at church in Peshawar killed 125 people. Juliet lost 13 members of her family in the attack. Sign our petition to stop UK foreign aid to Pakistan (here) The British Pakistani Christian Association (BPCA) this […]