by Sarah Stone | Nov 16, 2015 | News
Nepal’s two major earthquakes earlier this year shattered the lives of millions of people. Now nationwide fuel shortages, caused by more than two months of blockades along the border with India, mean life for people in Nepal is even more precarious. “It...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 17, 2015 | News
Nepal’s constitution, to be released on Sept. 20, will include language defining it as a secular state. In the months leading up to a formal vote on the proposed constitution, there has been a strong push to return the nation to a Hindu state, as it had been...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Aug 20, 2015 | News
Baptist and Christian leaders have urged Nepal’s Prime Minister Sushil Koirala to reconsider language in Nepal’s proposed constitution that would make evangelism illegal. Section 31(3) of the proposed constitution reads: “No one shall behave, act or...
by Christina Embree | May 1, 2015 | Opinion
“Mom, did you hear about the earthquake? The news said thousands of people died.” If you have not heard a variation of this question recently, you probably will soon. As news of this devastating earthquake continues to flood all forms of media, it is...
by Vinoth Ramachandra | Apr 30, 2015 | Opinion
On my first visit to Nepal in 1989, I was appalled at the grinding poverty in which the vast majority of its citizens lived. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of tourists from all over the rich world came to trek, climb the Himalayas or seek some variation of...