Source: Mission Network News, November 9, 2015
Nepal is caught between the dragon and the elephant. Sounds like the beginning of a folktale, but the reality is that the country is being squeezed by the politics of China and India. Nepal is the second poorest [country] in Asia after war-torn Afghanistan.
[Now] Nepal is facing a humanitarian crisis due to the blockade of its border posts with India over the new secular constitution. The blockade, which is now into its second month, has severely restricted the amount of fuel and essential supplies reaching the country from India.
Greg Kelley with World Mission explains how the politics trickles down to impact everyday gospel work. “The biggest resource that is crippling the ministry outlets is the gasoline [shortage], so it makes it very difficult to get from Point A to Point B.”
Kelley says the gospel is still going forward. “Just this past week, we got an amazing report of a listening group of people gathering around and listening to the Word of God: 72 people gave their lives to Christ in this one village.”
» Read full story and a previous MNN story, Blockade of Supplies into Nepal Continues; both go further into the geopolitics than what we’ve shared here. UNICEF warns that millions of Nepali children are at risk this winter.