{"id":26370,"date":"2024-09-21T09:19:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T03:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kathmandupublic.com\/?p=26370"},"modified":"2024-09-21T09:19:57","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T03:34:57","slug":"make-nepal-hindu-again-christians-concerned-by-rising-religious-nationalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kathmandupublic.com\/?p=26370","title":{"rendered":"Make Nepal Hindu Again: Christians Concerned by Rising Religious Nationalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #191919; font-family: freight-text-pro, serif; font-size: 17px; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0.18px; text-align: center;\">Hindutva ideology is crossing the border from India and making ministry more challenging for churches in the former Hindu kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; --tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.4761; max-width: var(--wp--style--global--content-size); margin-bottom: 1.75em; position: relative; color: #191919; font-family: freight-text-pro, serif; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important;\">More than 15 years after Nepal officially became a secular democracy, the former Hindu monarchy may have a religious extremism problem, incited and aggravated by its closest neighbor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; --tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.4761; max-width: var(--wp--style--global--content-size); margin-bottom: 1.75em; position: relative; color: #191919; font-family: freight-text-pro, serif; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important;\">In an \u201calarming\u201d development, Indian Hindutva ideology and politics have begun to spread throughout the country, as local experts and journalists\u00a0<a class=\"\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-style: solid; --tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; overflow-wrap: break-word; color: inherit; text-decoration: inherit; --tw-border-opacity: 1; border-color: rgb(255 36 0\/var(--tw-border-opacity));\" href=\"https:\/\/nepalitimes.com\/news\/india-s-hindutva-politics-influencing-nepal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a>. This proliferation has resulted in a recent spate of attacks and restrictions on Christians reported within the country of 30 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; border-width: 0px; border-style: solid; --tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,.5); --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-size: 21px; line-height: 1.4761; max-width: var(--wp--style--global--content-size); margin-bottom: 1.75em; position: relative; color: #191919; font-family: freight-text-pro, serif; margin-left: auto !important; margin-right: auto !important;\">According to local sources, at least five separate incidents targeting Christians have been reported in March and April of this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hindutva ideology is crossing the border from India and making ministry more challenging for churches in the former Hindu kingdom. More than 15 years after Nepal officially became a secular democracy, the former Hindu monarchy may have a religious extremism problem, incited and aggravated by its closest neighbor. In an \u201calarming\u201d development, Indian Hindutva ideology &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1265,1259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-lifeltyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathmandupublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathmandupublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathmandupublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathmandupublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathmandupublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kathmandupublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26371,"href":"https:\/\/kathmandupublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26370\/revisions\/26371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathmandupublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathmandupublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathmandupublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}