An anti-conversion clause inserted in Nepal’s new constitution has some worried that persecution of religious minorities will increase, it was reported in mid-September.
The new constitution declares Nepal a secular state. However, section 26 makes illegal ‘any act to convert another person from one religion to another or any act or behaviour to undermine or jeopardise the religion of another’.
In 2008 when Nepal’s Constituent Assembly (CA) declared the country a secular state, it had been the world’s only official Hindu state.
