Nepal’s Religious Minorities Face an Uphill BattleJanuary 17, 2020 — 01/17/2020 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Nepal’s constitution, established in 2015, pays lip some service to the ideal of religious freedom. Article 26.1 guarantees the freedom of all persons to “profess,...
New Challenges to Christianity’s Growth in NepalJanuary 2, 2020 — 01/02/2020 Nepal (International Christian Concern) – Over the past couple of years, mission organizations have claimed that Nepal is home to one of the fastest growing Christian communities in the...
17 Christians in Nepal Arrested and Charged Under Country’s Anti-Conversion LawDecember 19, 2019 — 12/19/2019 Nepal (International Christian Concern) – In 2015, Nepal adopted a new constitution that declared the country to be a secular nation. Christians living in the formally Hindu kingdom were...
Group Claims Nepal’s Blasphemy and Anti-Conversion Law Will Increase PersecutionNovember 13, 2019 — 11/13/2019 Nepal (International Christian Concern) – The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) reports that Nepal’s anti-conversion and blasphemy law is restricting the religious freedom rights of the country’s...
Pastor in Nepal Receives Death Threats After Testimony Video Goes ViralSeptember 17, 2019 — 09/17/2019 Nepal (International Christian Concern) – According to Morning Star News, a pastor in Nepal has received numerous death threats after a video of him sharing his Christian testimony and...
Four Christians in Nepal Arrested for “Preaching Christianity”August 16, 2019 — 08/16/2019 Nepal (International Christian Concern) – According to The Annapurna Express, four Christians in Nepal have been arrested and charged under the country’s strict anti-conversion law. This report comes only...
Christian Arrested for Sharing Christian Literature in Nepal ReleasedAugust 8, 2019 — 08/08/2019 Nepal (International Christian Concern)- A 73-year old Christian, Cho Yusang was released from jail in Nepal on August 7, 2019 after being arrested for two weeks because he was...
Christian Persecution in Nepal on the RiseJuly 5, 2019 — 07/05/2019 Nepal (International Christian Concern) – Open Doors, a Christian ministry that monitors global Christian persecution, has claimed that the persecution of Christians in Nepal on the rise. This has...
Recent Arrest of Five Christians in Nepal a Worrying Sign for Religious FreedomMay 5, 2019 — 05/05/2019 Nepal (International Christian Concern) – On April 23, five Christians, including an American citizen, were arrested in Nepal’s Dang District after they were accused of attempted proselytization. These arrests,...
Five Christians, Including One American, Arrested in Nepal Under Anti-Conversion LawApril 24, 2019 — Religious Freedom for Minorities Continues to Deteriorate in Nepal 04/24/2019 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that five Christians, including an American citizen and...
Hindu Nationalist Group Launches Campaign to Make Nepal Officially a Hindu NationMarch 31, 2019 — 03/31/2019 Nepal (International Christian Concern) – Earlier this month, the pro-Hindu Rastriya Prajatantra Party launched a campaign to reestablish Nepal as an official Hindu nation. This campaign comes at a...
Pastor Severely Beaten by Unknown Assailants in Southeastern NepalMarch 29, 2019 — 03/29/2019 Nepal (International Christian Concern) – Earlier this month, a pastor in Nepal’s southeastern district of Sarlahie was attacked and beaten by a group of unknown assailants. According to the...
Hindu Nationalist Party Launches Campaign to Reestablish Nepal as a Hindu StateMarch 2, 2019 — 03/02/2019 Nepal (International Christian Concern) – The Rastriya Prajatantra Party has launched a campaign in Nepal that calls for the country to be reestablished as an explicitly Hindu state. Religious...
Christianity Continues to Grow Among Nepal’s Low CasteFebruary 26, 2019 — 02/26/2019 Nepal (International Christian Concern) – Christianity is continuing to grow among Nepal’s low caste communities despite increased persecution and the passage of a law that makes religious conversion illegal....
ICC Restores Shattered Church Community in NepalFebruary 10, 2019 — [vc_custom_heading text="" use_theme_fonts="yes"][vc_custom_heading text="By ICC’s Nepal Correspondent" font_container="tag:h6|text_align:left" use_theme_fonts="yes" css=".vc_custom_1549643103415{margin-bottom: 22px !important;}"][vc_single_image image="101786" img_size="full" alignment="center"] 02/10/2018 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – On May 11, 2018, Immanuel Church, located in Kanchanpur, Nepal, was set...
US Commission Releases Report on Anti-Conversion Laws in South AsiaDecember 13, 2018 — 12/13/2018 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released a report on Tuesday, December 11, entitled Anti-Conversion Laws on the Rise in...
