{"id":14486,"date":"2015-09-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/09\/27\/christians-are-rejoicing-over-nepal-s-secular-constitution\/"},"modified":"2015-09-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T12:00:00","slug":"christians-are-rejoicing-over-nepal-s-secular-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/09\/27\/christians-are-rejoicing-over-nepal-s-secular-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Christians Are Rejoicing Over Nepal&#8217;s Secular Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charismanews.com\/world\/52194-why-christians-are-rejoicing-over-this-secular-ruling\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NEPAL, September 26, 2015 (Charisma News): HPI Note: this is a Christian News source. <\/p>\n<p>Nepal approved a new constitution earlier this month, declaring the formerly Hindu nation to be a secular country, which ignited rejoicing for Christians anxious to evangelize. &#8220;[The] gospel will be spreading fast because [the] new constitution declares that every human [can] believe in God as they like,&#8221; says Pastor Dhan Lama of Good News Church in Nepal. Before the constitution passed, Christians fretted over the potential consequences of a new governing document. <\/p>\n<p>Article 31(3) states that &#8220;any act to convert another person from one religion to another, or any act or behavior to undermine or jeopardize the religion of another [will be] punishable by law,&#8221; Charisma News previously reported. Christians fear this will pave the way for an &#8220;anti-conversion clause&#8221; to be written into the penal code, which could result in prison sentences or hefty fines for &#8220;offenders.&#8221; Lama says the clause deals with forced conversions; anyone who converts out of his or her own free will will not be subject to punishment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source NEPAL, September 26, 2015 (Charisma News): HPI Note: this is a Christian News source. Nepal approved a new constitution,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}