Source: Morning Star News, January 11, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Having moved in with his parents after the birth of his son, Pawan said that in March 2020 they told him and his wife to either partake of Hindu rituals or leave their home in central Nepal\u2019s Bhaktapur District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe tried hard to settle the matter, but they did not let us stay,\u201d Pawan, 26, told Morning Star News. \u201cThey kept our newborn son and threw us out of our home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His parents had insisted that if they were going to attend Christian worship services, they must also participate in rituals such as eating food offered to Hinduism\u2019s many gods, he said. Refusing to eat such food, his wife grew so weak she had trouble providing breast milk for their baby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMany days went by with just a meal a day, and my wife, who was breastfeeding our baby, grew weaker,\u201d Pawan said. \u201cShe would silently suffer, fearing that complaining to me might lead to a heated argument with my parents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Working hard but earning little, Pawan remained true to his faith even though economically dependent on parents that were hostile to Christianity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen we refused to accept food offered to the deities,\u201d he said, \u201cmy parents would insult us, asking, \u2018What good has following Christ done for you? Your baby keeps falling sick. What is your Jesus doing? Why is he not protecting your baby?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tensions grew after his younger brother put his faith in Christ, he said. \u201cBoth my mother and father falsely accused me of sorcery to draw my brother into my faith,\u201d Pawan said. \u201cI only shared the gospel with him; I never forced him and did not speak any alluring words to make him a Christian. It was his own decision.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the full story<\/a>. This family is no stranger to persecution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Morning Star News, January 11, 2022 Having moved in with his parents after the birth of his son, Pawan said that in March 2020 they told him and his wife to either partake of Hindu rituals or leave their home in central Nepal\u2019s Bhaktapur District. \u201cWe tried hard to settle the matter, but they … Continue reading Nepal: Nursing Mother Nearly Starves to Avoid Food Offered to Idols<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10727,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10726\/revisions\/10727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}