Hindu extremists demand: foreign religious leaders must leave Nepal
September 25, 2015
Hindu zealots in Nepal have warned foreign religious leaders to leave the country, Aid to the Church in Need reports.
After three Protestant churches were bombed on September 14—fortunately causing no deaths, although four police officers were injured while defusing a bomb—pamphlets were found on the scene claiming that the country’s government was being manipulated by foreign agents, and charging that Christians have corrupted the country.
“We warn all foreign Christian religious leaders to leave this country immediately,” read the pamphlets, which were attributed to a radical group, Hindu Morcha Nepal. The pamphlets urged Nepalese citizens who have embraced other faiths to return to their Hindu roots.
The pamphlets appeared as Nepal rejected a proposed constitutional amendment that would have proclaimed Hinduism as the country’s religion. The secularity of the state was confirmed after a bitter political battle that raised tensions among religious groups.
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