http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:58:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26125/churches-in-nepal-live-under-threat-discrimination http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26125/churches-in-nepal-live-under-threat-discrimination#comments Sat, 20 Aug 2011 14:43:59 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26125 Hundreds of other churches scattered through the former Hindu kingdom of Nepal have faced government discrimination.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26125/churches-in-nepal-live-under-threat-discrimination/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26006/nepal-plans-new-criminal-code-forbidding-evangelism http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26006/nepal-plans-new-criminal-code-forbidding-evangelism#comments Thu, 02 Jun 2011 22:34:55 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26006 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.”

Article 160 of the proposed code also says no one will be allowed to do anything or behave in any way that could cause a person from a caste, community or creed to lose faith in his/her traditional religion or convert to a different religion. The proposal would also prohibit conversion “by offering inducements or without inducement,” and preaching “a different religion or faith with any other intent.”]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26006/nepal-plans-new-criminal-code-forbidding-evangelism/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25870/nepal-church-bomber-faked-repentance http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25870/nepal-church-bomber-faked-repentance#comments Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:51:20 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25870 The chief of a militant Hindu extremist group sought to disguise his extortion and terror activities from behind bars by claiming he had repented of bombing a church in Nepal and showing interest in Christianity, according to investigators.

The revelation emerged when Nepal’s premier investigation agency foiled a plot to explode a series of bombs devised by Ram Prasad Mainali, former chief of the Hindu militant outfit Nepal Defence Army (NDA), in the capital city of Kathmandu.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25870/nepal-church-bomber-faked-repentance/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25858/prospects-dim-for-religious-freedom-in-nepal http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25858/prospects-dim-for-religious-freedom-in-nepal#comments Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:28:54 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25858 A new constitution that Nepal’s parliament is scheduled to put into effect before May 28 may not include the right to propagate one’s faith.

The draft constitution, aimed at completing the country’s transition from a Hindu monarchy to a secular democracy, contains provisions in its “religious freedom” section that prohibit anyone from converting others from one religion to another.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25858/prospects-dim-for-religious-freedom-in-nepal/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25159/continued-ban-on-converting-others-proposed-in-nepal http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25159/continued-ban-on-converting-others-proposed-in-nepal#comments Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:21:09 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=25159 A legislative panel in Nepal has proposed retaining a ban on converting others in the country’s new constitution.

Parliament has yet to decide on the proposal, but Christian leaders said they fear it is likely to be approved given that Nepal’s largest political party, led by former Maoist rebels, sympathizes with the deposed king’s wishes for such a ban. The country is forging a new constitution as part of its transition from a Hindu monarchy to a democracy.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/25159/continued-ban-on-converting-others-proposed-in-nepal/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23928/nepal-gadhimai-festival-slaughter http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23928/nepal-gadhimai-festival-slaughter#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:51:09 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23928 Up to a million Hindu devotees have gathered in a village in Nepal to witness the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of animals in a mass sacrifice that has drawn widespread criticism.

Worshippers travelled long distances, many coming from India, to attend the two-day Gadhimai festival, which honours the Hindu goddess of power and takes place once every five years in southern Nepal.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23928/nepal-gadhimai-festival-slaughter/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23538/christians-vulnerable-in-nepal http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23538/christians-vulnerable-in-nepal#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:27:14 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23538 They are now being targeted by militant Hindu organizations that blame the church for the abolition of Hinduism as the state religion and the end of monarchy.

A little-known, shadowy organization that claimed to be building an army of suicide bombers has achieved notoriety with two brutal attacks on Catholics in two years. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23538/christians-vulnerable-in-nepal/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23489/nepal-defense-army-church-bombing http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23489/nepal-defense-army-church-bombing#comments Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:18:08 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23489 Vikash Patrick’s 19-year-old bride died while praying at the Assumption Church in Kathmandu valley’s Lalitpur district, the largest Catholic church in Nepal, in an anti-Christian bombing on May 23, the day they were to return home.

Claiming responsibility for the violence was the Nepal Defense Army (NDA), a group wishing to restore Hinduism as the official religion of Nepal.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23489/nepal-defense-army-church-bombing/feed 0