Tag: Nepal churches

Mahendra Ranawat, 44, originally from India's Rajasthan state and a cloth merchant for 20 years in Kathmandu was travelling with his family: "We had no choice but to flee our home," he said.

TWO years after an explosion shook one of the biggest Catholic churches in Nepal and killed three people, the underground group that orchestrated the attack claimed responsibility for another bomb blast this week.

FIVE years after it abolished Hinduism as the state religion, Nepal is working on a new criminal code forbidding a person from one faith to “convert a person or abet him to change his religion.”