Nepal: Past, present and future

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KATHMANDU, Nepal, MARCH 21, 2010 (Zenit.org).- In Nepal, 75 % of the population is Hindu. Christians number only 2.5%, and Catholics number only 7,000.

In 2007, Benedict XVI elevated Nepal to the status of an Apostolic Vicariate and appointed its first bishop, Bishop Anthony Francis Sharma.

Bishop Sharma is a born Nepali and was born in Gurkha, in the central part of Nepal called the Mid-Western region. He was born and raised in a Hindu family, as a Brahmin.

It was his mother who entered the Catholic Church when he was barely about 4 or 5 years old and he became also Catholic at the same time.

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