Nepal: Church grows exponentially to one million believers

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According to this source the Church is alive and fast growing in Nepal

12/27/09 Nepal (JoelNews) – The number of Christians in Nepal is growing exponentially. This is reported by American researcher Dr. Cindy Perry, who recently finished a study on the Nepali church. Many new churches have not just been planted in Nepal, but also in nations where Nepali workers have migrated to. “This is a special development,” Perry says. “When a Nepali comes to Christ, he apparently also becomes an evangelist straight away.”

Until 1951 Nepal was closed to the outside world. Nepali Christians were few and mainly lived in north India on the border with Nepal. For years, together with British missionaries, they prayed for open doors into the nation. When in 1951 the country opened up, the missionaries started a hospital in Pokhara, called ‘Shining Hospital’, and the Nepali Christian David Mukhia founded the first church. Out of these first fruits missions organizations International Nepal Fellowship and United Mission of Nepal (UMN) developed. They supported church planting and did medical work amoung tbc and lepra patients.

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