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NEPAL, August 27, 2014 (Mission Network News): HPI Note: This is from a Christian news source.<\/p>\n
Nearly 300 people have died and more than 100 are missing due to severe Nepal flooding. Heavy rain, which began August 13, has affected 25 of Nepal’s 75 districts, overflowing riverbanks and causing landslides. More than 22,000 people have been displaced. A ministry leader supported by Christian Aid Mission reports that he has “never, in the past 52 years,” seen this kind of flooding in Bardia. <\/p>\n
Many homeless families are living at the school run by this ministry-a school that recently received negative attention from a news channel in Nepal after it became known that several children converted to Christianity there. Converting someone to a religion other than Hinduism was illegal in Nepal until 2008, when it changed from the world’s only Hindu Kingdom to a secular state.<\/p>\n
The Nepalese government is ill-equipped to respond to such a disaster. According to one ministry leader assisted by Christian Aid Mission, the government is calling upon “each able individual to contribute 100 rupees [$1] for the people in the affected regions.” Indigenous ministries inside Nepal are in a unique position to reach out to their hurting neighbors in Jesus’ name immediately, with help wired directly from Christian Aid Mission.<\/p>\n
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