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 […]
Pakistan's other woman blasphemy victim and her disabled husband still await an appeal against their blasphemy conviction
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 […]
Tamil Christian targeting in recent bomb attacks raised during meeting with Sri Lankan High Commission
British Asian Christian Association (BACA) coordinated a meeting between Tamil Christian leaders and the Deputy High Commissioner for Sri Lanka Mr Sugeeshwara Gunaratna on 8th May 2019. This followed on from an earlier memorial event at the Wilson Room, House of Commons on 29th April, organised by the All Parliamentary Party Group for Tamils at […]
Double Joy on Easter Sunday
The celebration of Easter Sunday was made even more sweeter when a Christian family in Pakistan learnt their school fee debts of their murdered son was wiped out. A donation by VOVTV led by Pastor Teerth Sond in Wolverhampton to the British Pakistani Christian Association ensured the £1200 debt incurred by the Masih family following […]
Asia Bibi is free at last!
Pakistan’s most famous blasphemy law victim Asia Bibi was finally released from her homeland where she has become the most hated figure in the country despite law courts exonerating her from the false charges that had kept her incarcerated in solitary confinement for almost 10 years. In the early hours of the morning today(1am) BPCA […]
People of good conscience in the UK mourn the victims of Sri Lanka bombings at several events
In the wake of the devastating bomb attacks on churches in Sri Lanka the global mourning amongst people of good conscience from all walks of life has been palpable. Events have sprung up across the UK as well as across the globe starting with a memorial service on Thursday 25th April, at Beulah Family Church, […]
Asylum seekers attacked in Negombo in wake of Church bomb attacks
Several migrant groups in Sri Lanka have been seeking protection in the police stations of Negombo after a series of attacks. Afghan and Pakistani asylum seekers have complained about threats to their lives from the local community after the series of bomb attacks. See Reuters News story (here) We spoke to one of the frightened […]
BPCA reaches victims of Zion Church, Batticaloa
BPCA National Executive Anton Kyanq (centre) meets victims at Zion Church Batticaloa More than 100 families were affected by the bomb attack in batticaloa and out of 19 of the families atending the church 29 members were killed. We met the wife of Pastor Thirukkumaran’s whose son Thirukkumaran Shalom Malkiya (11 yrs) was killes in […]
Peace Vigil to be held outside Ilford Town Hall to remember victims of Sri Lanka Bomb Attack
A multi-cultural and multi faith peace vigil is to be held outside Ilford Town Hall tomorrow at 6.30pm. The event which is organised by British Pakistani Christian Association and both Ilford and Newham branches of Emmanuel Christian Centre (Tamil Churches. At the event a bagpiper will be playing a lament before and after a one […]
Death toll rises in Sri Lanka after 10 bombs detonate in churches and hotels
As Easter celebrations were taking place across Sri Lanka in particular within the cities of Colombo and Negombo – where the largest Christian communities exist – a depraved series of bomb attacks on churches and exclusive hotels brought terror to revellers and tourists. Early reports focused on 8 explosions but by the end of the […]