Yesterday we shared some information about the threat of more bombings in Nepal, and today we continue the story from our friends at Compass Direct who are reporting how the Christians in Nepal are still suffering. Please keep Nepal in your prayers today.
Militant group threatens more attacks unless non-Hindus leave country within month.
KATHMANDU, Nepal, June 2 (Compass Direct News) – Vikash and Deepa Patrick had been married for nearly four months before the young couple living in Patna in eastern India managed to go on their honeymoon here. The decision to come to Nepal would be a choice the groom will rue the rest of his life. 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 the couple was 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. Today police arrested a 27-year-old Nepalese woman, Sita Shrestha nee Thapa, who allegedly confessed to police that she was a member of an obscure group, Hindu Rashtra Bachao Samiti (The Society to Save the Hindu Nation), and had planted the bomb inspired by the NDA. A dazed Sun Bahadur Tamang, a 51-year-old Nepali Christian who had also gone to the church that day with his wife and daughter, pieced together the incident while awaiting treatment in a private hospital. “There was a stunning bang, and I fell on my daughter,” he said. “People screamed, there was a stampede, and I couldn’t find my wife. I also realized I had lost my hearing.”
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