Nepal: Christian Conversion and Evangelism Banned


If anyone found guilty, “there will be punishment of five years of imprisonment and penalty of fifty thousand rupees. If foreigners are found guilty, they will have to be deported within seven days after completing the imprisonment in third clause.”

Times of Ahmad | News Watch | Int'l Desk
Source/Credit: Christians In Pakistan
By Web Desk | November 25, 2017

The criminal code bill which is approved by the President Bidhya Devi Bhandari in August this year established constitutional protections for Hinduism. This bill restricts religious conversion to Christianity. This criminal code bill is an open declaration of a worse threat to minority faiths living under the officially Hindu state of Nepal.

A section of the new law reads, “No one should involve or encourage in conversion of religion. No one should convert a person from one religion to another religion or profess their own religion and belief with similar intention by using or not using any means of attraction and by disturbing religion or belief of any ethnic groups or community that being practiced since ancient times.”
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