{"id":14054,"date":"2025-08-05T12:57:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=14054"},"modified":"2025-08-05T12:57:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:57:24","slug":"bhutan-christian-worship-in-a-tiny-asian-hermit-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=14054","title":{"rendered":"Bhutan: Christian Worship in a Tiny Asian Hermit Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: International Christian Concern, July 7, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There aren\u2019t many reports of Christians being attacked in Bhutan. For that matter, news of any sort from Bhutan is relatively scarce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet Bhutan, an ostensibly serene little Buddhist hermit kingdom that emphasizes \u201cGross National Happiness,\u201d currently ranks as more oppressive than Egypt toward Christians. An added factor here is that most Christians in Bhutan are ethnic Nepalis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bhutan has a complicated relationship with its ethnic Nepali population, regardless of religion. Toward the end of the 20th century, many native Bhutanese became concerned that ethnic Nepalis were gaining too much influence within their country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, the Bhutanese government began rescinding the citizenship of more than 100,000 ethnic Nepalis (which is no small number in a country with less than 1 million persons overall), then seizing their property and expelling them from the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The full story<\/a> reports that the country\u2019s Christians, whose numbers are growing, meet in private settings and are both joyful and fearful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two more stories from East Asia:<\/p>\n\n\n\n