Nepal — Unlike Christians in the neighboring state of India, believers in Nepal have, until recently, been more protected from state-sanctioned discrimination and violence. However, the tide is turning as the persecution that Indian Christians have known for some time slowly bleeds across the border.

Several reports have suggested that proximity to India is not the only reason for this shift. Some evidence suggests that funds have been sent directly from the pro-Hindu nationalists who control India into Nepal, resulting in increased violence toward religious minorities. Christians, Muslims, and Buddhists have seen their sacred buildings, holy ceremonies, and specific individuals targeted by the Hindu majority.

This growing trend toward a more persecuted and discriminatory Nepal could be seen last week as protesters marched on the parliament building in Kathmandu, airing their demands for their country to return to the monarchy and a Hindu state. The march eventually turned violent as protestors clashed with police, resulting in several serious injuries. Since the march, many in the inside and outside of Nepal have expressed concern over the growing Hindu nationalism.

An ICC partner in Kathmandu has expressed concern over this growing trend, sharing that evangelism work is becoming more dangerous across the country. Pray that Christians in Nepal will remain bold in their faith despite the growing threat of persecution and that they will remain safe.
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Unidentified miscreants looted a Divine Word mission in Odisha, eastern India, after attacking four priests, teachers and workers living in the campus.

The April 10 incident took place at the mission at Bagdehi, more than 20 km northeast of Jharsuguda, the headquarters of the Divine Word congregation’s India East province. The police have launched a probe into the incident.

“Around 11 looters entered the campus of St. Arnold Primary School around 9.30 pm night,” Father Anuranjan Bilung, the provincial, told.

He said they first entered the teachers’ quarters where eight women teachers resided. The miscreants forcefully took their gold chains, earrings and mobile phones at gunpoint.

“The teachers were silenced and forced to shift to one room and the intruders locked the room from outside. They also destroyed their mobiles and asked them to remain silent or get killed,” the priest narratedAt gunpoint, they asked a woman worker to take them to the nearby priests’ residence. They threatened to kill the woman’s little daughter who was with her. The frightened woman showed them the priests’ place from outside. The miscreants first broke & open the grill of the presbytery where four priests lived. Father Christopher John, who was still awake, seeing the grill open, went out to check.

The intruders, who were hiding, assaulted him and destroyed his mobile phone. “The looters after entering their residence thrashed the priests with curtain rods and chairs, tied their hands and legs and locked them in a room,” the provincial said.

They also destroyed their mobiles and one laptop and searched the rooms and looted money amounting less than 100,000 rupees.The atackers left the mission around 1 am on April 11 carrying cash and valuables.

The assaulted priests managed to untie one of them, who called the police with a phone that had escaped miscreants’ attention. He also called a worker, who lived close to the mission. The worker opened the priests’ room and the priests then opened the room of the teachers and workers.

The priests went to a dispensary managed by the Handmaids of Mary nuns for first aid. The police, who came at 1:45 am, took the priests in an ambulance to the District Hospital in Jharsuguda.

On being informed, some priests from the Provincial’s House rushed to the hospital. They took the four confreres back to the mission after initial treatment. The provincial house later contacted the Jharsuguda District Police Head Office and the local police stations at Bagdehi and Laikera for action.

At around 6:30 am, another police team reached the mission and started to investigate. After gathering information from the workers, the teachers, and the priests, the police filed a First Information Report. Pray for the priests and the teachers “are still under trauma.
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