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Self-Reliance Aid Program

Help Them Become Self-supporting

In Pakistan like many poor countries, Christian minorities are often among the most impoverished. To add to their misery, the persecution and discrimination threaten their human dignity and worsen their situation. The misuse of blasphemy laws has increased rapidly in recent years where now several hundred Christian families face fabricated cases, that lead to poverty and challenges that often lead to destruction.

The religious underage girls of minority Christians and Hindus face rapidly increasing cases of rape, forced abduction, forced marriage, and forced conversions. The victim’s family loses their bargaining power due to job loss, increased living expenses, and time lost to tedious court trials. Monetary aid to begin a small business can uplift victims’ families and help them make their daily basic living expenses.

Apart from Nigeria, Pakistan is the only country awarded the maximum violence score by the Open Doors World Watch List because of the high number of Christian women and girls abducted, raped, and forcefully converted. The other contributing cause of this score is the country’s notorious blasphemy laws which remain a constant threat to Pakistan’s beleaguered Christian community. As well, all Christians suffer institutional discrimination.

Canadian Aid to Persecuted Christians’ “Self-Reliance Program” for the persecuted aims at providing needed assistance to cultivate self-support through small business development and thus giving hope to the survivors and/ or the victims’ families.

APPEAL

This year CAPC’s target for June 2023-May 2024 is to raise CAN $32,650 which will enable us to provide a means of livelihood to the suffering families.

  1. Azeem is able to walk & needs a tailoring shop to support himself
  2. Mehik: an underage mom trained as a beautician, needs  support to set up a beauty shop  
  3. Aleena’s dad Chand was fired from his job. He desperately needs financial support to buy a Rikshaw for earning a livelihood
  4. Younas, father of 10-year-old Aliza is a Tailor Master and is seeking financial help to set up a small tailor shop to provide for his wife and six children.  In December of 2021, Aliza was raped by Mohammad Boota (a Muslim neighbor), who in June of 2023 was sentenced to life imprisonment.  

Please help us get these families back on their own feet!

 HOW TO DONATE:  https://capc.life/donate/

REFUGEE CRISIS!

An Opportunity To Make a Difference

Thousands of Pakistani families have left the country to escape the false accusations of the infamous blasphemy laws and resulting attacks, target killing, and other discrimination. They fled to neighbouring countries on temporary tourist visas and attempt to seek asylum through a UNHCR office. Several thousands have reached Azerbaijan, Malaysia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Turkey, and other countries.

Living as asylum seeker & refugee in another country also presents great risk. They face multiple challenges after leaving everything behind and moving to another country. They often do not have enough resources to have their visitor visas renewed every three months since they are not allowed to work. Without work, they also do not enough cash to meet daily needs, access health facilities, pay rent or buy food.

The UNHCR Office in Malaysia often takes 12 to 18 months before they respond to the asylum seeker application. In other countries there is also a long wait to hear back from the office.

Despite receiving so many people, Malaysia & Sri Lanka are not party to the 1951 Refugee Convention nor its Protocols and do not have an asylum system regulating the status and rights of refugees. In other words, local laws do not distinguish between refugees, asylum seekers, and undocumented migrants. The legal disparity leaves refugees without the right to work or send their children to school and leaves them vulnerable to detention by authorities and exploitation by employers.

CAPC’S REFUGEE SPONSORSHIP TO CANADA

Canadian Aid to Persecuted Christians works with individuals, Charities, Canada’s Immigration and Citizen department, and Church and Sponsorship Agreement Holders (SAH) to sponsor refugees. In the past some of our Board Members have worked with refugee committees to co-sponsor refugees from Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Sudan, and Eritrea, as well as from other countries.

APPEAL FOR DONATIONS
There is a huge need for Refugee Sponsorship to Canada, which has become particularly urgent in Sri Lank. The UNHCR Office in Colombo, Sri Lanka is closing operations by December 2023, giving rise to great fear and anxiety among asylum seeker and refugee families currently living in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

  1. CAPC has a plan to sponsor Dilshad and his wife and son from Malaysia, having been in touch with the family for the last three years and affording humanitarian aid on occasion.
  2. A single parent (mother and son) waits for sponsorship from Colombo Sri Lanka.

Canadian Aid to Persecuted Christians is working with a local SAH group to sponsor the two families to Canada.

CAPC appeals for your generous donations to raise CAN $52,600 towards Christian Refugee Funds. For more information write to nadeem@capc.life

HOW TO DONATE:  https://capc.life/donate/

Our primary focus is relieving the suffering among the Christian community, but we also share the hope and love of Jesus to needy non-Christians. We help in 3 ways:

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Hands-on legal, humanitarian and financial support that is tailored to each situation, expeditiously facilitated, and promotes self-sufficiency.

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Prayer plays a major role in the success of our endeavours; please add your prayers to ours.

3

We engage in advocacy to spread the message of needed change in attitudes, education systems, justice systems, and governments that allow persecution to exist with impunity.

The nature of persecution spans an unimaginable landscape including:

  • Abduction, rape, forced conversion and marriage of underage girls, often to men twice their age
  • loss of breadwinner employment (often due to a severe injury) upon exposure of Christian faith among antagonists
  • looting and burning of Christian villages. In 2009, six Christians were burned alive in the Gojra village when a huge mob of Muslims attacked and looted homes.
  • bombing of churches during Sunday mass/service
  • rape and murder of non-Muslim girls and women, and, in many cases, no capture or punishment of the perpetrators
  • victimization (e.g., loss of employment) of traumatized girls’ entire family by neighbours who rally behind the perpetrator
  • disqualification from government aid programs unless there is conversion to Islam.
    Activities in which CAPC has been involved:
  • sponsorship and resettlement to Canada for those who need safe passage out of their country
  • recovery of abducted girls
  • financing relocation of affected families to safer areas/locations
  • financing legal support for prosecuting perpetrators
  • humanitarian aid (food, lodging, utilities) which, in addition to meeting an immediate need, ultimately can help keep the family from being further impoverished, allowing the children to continue their education, thereby securing a better future for the whole family.

Financial support is transacted by trusted workers; most transactions take the form of goods and services; direct cash support occurs if most practical.

From those we've helped

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I married a Muslim girl who converted to Christianity. My in-laws were searching for us to do an honor killing. My family was accepted as a refugee in Canada. We are very grateful to God for all His blessings upon us. We go to Church without fear and my kids are very happy to go to school in Canada.

Gill and Sana
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My family was under attack by our own government. We lived in fear and we travelled hours to reach Khartoum Refugee Camp. We are so blessed and grateful to be in Canada, a safe country. We are heartily grateful for the sponsorship.

Afom & Senait
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I was accused under blasphemy laws penal code 295-C in Pakistan. The punishment to the blasphemer is a death-sentence. I escaped to Sri Lanka with my four young girls. We were then sponsored to come to Canada. Here my girls go to school without any fear and we actively take part in Church activities.

Masih & Girls