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From: charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: God and suffering
Message-ID: <326@cylixd.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 14:51:17 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 26 14:51:17 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 06:44:54 EDT
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Reply-To: charli@cylixd.UUCP (Charli Phillips)
Organization: RCA Cylix Communications , Memphis, TN
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Summary: 

>> . . . . the Soviet Union, Albania, Nepal,
>> Iran, or some other place where Christians suffer *because* they are
>> Christians.  
>> 
>> 		charli
>
>Nepal ? Nepal ????? Do you know what you are talking about ?
>-- 
>Raghu Seshadri

My apologies.  I should not have included Nepal in the same list with
the Soviet Union, Albania, and Iran.  Religious persecution exists in 
Nepal, but it is not nearly as severe in that country as in the others 
I mentioned.

In Nepal, it is legal to *be* any religion, but it is illegal to *change*
ones religion, or to encourage someone else to *change* theirs.
Effectively, one is required to adhere to the religion of ones parents.
Changing ones own religion or encouraging others to change their religion
is punishable by imprisonment.  Christians, of course, are the most
frequent offenders with respect to these laws, since evangelism is a
requirement of the Christian faith.

		charli