This time from Hindus...note the vast difference in what Muslims claim is religious persecution here to what Christians experience world wide. I've heard these other religions are all religions of peace...
In a nation where 75 percent of the population is Hindu, there was a congregation of four Christians in his small village when Rajan expressed a faith in Jesus Christ. But that's back down to three after he lost his family and crops, and was forced to leave his home and village, because of his conversion, according to new documentation obtained by
the Voice of the Martyrs.
Sources within Nepal, the mountainous nation sandwiched between India and China that holds Mt. Everest, have told
the Voice of the Martyrs that the persecution campaign encompassed all parts of Rajan's life when he became a Christian.
"Hindu neighbors have dug up Rajan's cauliflower and potatoes," the VOM reported its sources confirmed. "He has lost his whole year's income."
Villagers took every opportunity to make life difficult for him, including their response when some water from his field inadvertently spilled onto a neighbor's land, the sources reported.
"He was recently fined 6,000 rupees (about $100, a large sum in Nepal), after water from his field spilled over into a neighbor's field," the VOM sources reported. "Normally, this would not be a problem, but the neighbors consider water from Rajan's field unclean because he is a Christian.
"Normally, we wouldn't fine you, but because you changed your religion and became a Christian, you need to pay 6,000 rupees," the villagers told him, according to VOM.
They even turned Rajan's wife and family against him, and he was forced to leave his home, to stay with a pastor briefly, and then to move to another village.
"When Rajan left his home to live with the pastor he was sad, but said his experiences had made Jesus more precious to him than before,"
the Voice of the Martyrs reported. "His pastor told us that as persecuted believers, they have learned that one of the results of persecution is that Jesus becomes much more precious to them."
VOM reported, however, that Rajan's faith was unshaken.
"No matter what you do to me, I will not leave Christ," Rajan told his Hindu neighbors.
The nation of Nepal, about the size of Arkansas, for decades has been a Hindu kingdom with Hinduism the national religion. About three-quarters of its population is Hindu, another 15 percent Buddhist and about 5 percent Muslim. Christians are estimated at between one and two percent of the population.
Officially, Christians were not allowed to live in Nepal at all before 1960, and while they now are allowed by the government, they often suffer persecution at the hands of family, friends and villagers.
The nation's tolerance of persecution of Christians often has raised concerns around the world, and the issue was raised internationally again not long ago when British Parliamentarian David Alton wrote to Nepalese officials.
"I am disturbed by reports that [a Hindu group] wishes to kill the main Christian leaders in Nepal and to destroy the church buildings," he wrote. "Hatred is also being incited in local newspapers against Christians. I am told that Christians have been falsely accused of involvement in Maoist activity, drug trafficking and trafficking of girls for prostitution.
"The reality is that the churches are doing good works such as providing homes for orphans, help for the poorest of the poor, giving humanitarian and medical aid and education for the underprivileged as well as taking care of the spiritual welfare of the people," he said.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...TICLE_ID=55850
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