23 killed in Nepal church collapse

October 7th, 2009 Landslides kill 34 in remote western NepalKATMANDU, Nepal — Landslides triggered by torrential rains have killed at least 34 people in various parts of western Nepal, government officials said Wednesday. At least 18 people were killed Tuesday afternoon in Achham district, said Thir Bahadur Gharti Chhettri, an official at the Disaster Management Section of the Home Ministry.

September 30th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Reacting quickly to the death of 23 Christians in a church collapse in eastern Nepal Wednesday, Nepal's Communist-led government expressed sorrow over the incident and wished for the speedy recovery of the more than five dozen people injured. Though engaged in the last-day celebration of the Hindu Dashain festival and simultaneously holding talks with the major parties to end the ongoing blockade of parliament by former Maoist guerrillas, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal said he was "grieved and stunned" to hear about the tragedy in Dharan town in Sunsari district.

September 30th, 2009 Police: Church collapse in Nepal kills 24KATMANDU, Nepal — A church dormitory collapsed on attendees of a Christian conference in eastern Nepal as they slept early Wednesday, killing at least 24 people and injuring an additional 62, police said. The people had gathered in the eastern town of Dharan on Monday for the weeklong conference and were sleeping in a church extension made of bamboo and tin roofing when the collapse took place, police official Arjun Khadka said.

September 29th, 2009 KATHMANDU - A get-together during the festive season in Nepal turned to stark tragedy early Wednesday when 23 Christians, including an Indian, were crushed to death in a church instituted by an Indian convert in eastern Nepal. Most of the victims were women who died when a three-storey bamboo structure, built to accommodate Protestant Christians of the El Shaddai sect in Dharan town in eastern Nepal's Sunsari district, gave way around 12.30 a.m.

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September 29th, 2009 Subject: Indian among 23 Christians killed in Nepal church collapse 1sud30 Nepal-Religion/Society Indian among 23CHRISTIANS KILLED IN NEPAL CHURCH COLLAPSE KATHMANDU - A get-together during the festive season in Nepal turned into a stark tragedy early Wednesday morning when 23 Christians, including an Indian, were crushed to death in a church instituted by an Indian convert in eastern Nepal. Most of the victims were women who died when a three-storey bamboo structure, built to accommodate Protestant Christians of the El Shaddai sect who had congregated in the Zion Prayer Hall in Dharan town in eastern Nepal?s Sunsari district, gave way around 12.30am.

September 10th, 2009 11 killed, 20 missing in Nepal bus accidentKATMANDU, Nepal — A bus veered off a highway and plunged into a river in northeast Nepal on Thursday, killing at least 11 people and leaving about 20 missing and feared dead. Premed Kharel, the police chief for the area about 100 miles (160 kilometers) northeast of Katmandu, said rescuers pulled 11 bodies from the river, four women and seven men.

September 6th, 2009 KATHMANDU - More than three months after a bomb went off during mass at one of Nepal's oldest churches, killing three women -- two of them Indians, police Sunday arrested the mastermind who is the head of an outlawed Hindu militant organisation. Ram Prasad Mainali, chief of the Nepal Defence Army, a shadowy outfit that had asked all Christians and Muslims to leave Nepal or face dire consequences, was caught with three associates from southeast Nepal.

September 6th, 2009 Nepalese police arrest alleged militant leaderKATMANDU, Nepal — Police have arrested one of Nepal's most wanted men, the alleged leader of a shadowy militant group blamed in deadly attacks on a church and a mosque, the government said Monday. Ram Prasad Mainali, whom authorities believe is the leader of the underground Nepal Defense Army, was arrested in the southeastern town of Biratnagar on Saturday after months of investigation, Home Ministry spokesman Ramratna Pandey said.

June 2nd, 2009 KATHMANDU - Nepal police Tuesday said they had made a breakthrough in investigating the deadly blast that ripped through the prayer hall of one of the oldest Catholic churches in the country a week ago, killing three women and injuring at least 14 others. A 27-year-old married woman, whose name was given as Sita Shrestha nee Thapa, has been arrested in connection with the explosion at the Assumption Church in Lalitpur district May 23, Kathmandu police said at a press conference.

June 1st, 2009 KATHMANDU - A 45-year-old homemaker from Kerala became the third Indian churchgoer to die in Kathmandu valley's Patan Hospital after sustaining grievous injuries during the blast in a Catholic church nine days ago. Buddha Laxmi Joseph, who had come to Nepal almost 18 years ago along with her husband Baran Joseph and their three children in search of a better way of life, died of internal haemorrhage Sunday after fighting for life for a week.

May 24th, 2009 KATHMANDU - Newly elected Nepal Prime Minister Madhav Kumar on Sunday condemned Saturday's bomb blast at the Church of Assumption of Dhobighat in Lalitpur in which two persons were killed. Kumar visited the blast site on Sunday, and condemned it, saying the incident was targeted at creating religious tension in the region.

May 23rd, 2009 KATHMANDU - As Nepal Saturday looked forward to an end to a political crisis that has gripped the nation for three weeks with the fall of the Maoist government, fresh violence erupted in Kathmandu Valley with an explosion in a church killing at least one person and injuring nearly a dozen. The blast occurred at the Assumption Church in Dhobighat in Lalipur district, run by the Nepal Catholic Society.

May 23rd, 2009 KATHMANDU - At least two persons were killed and over a dozen others were injured when a bomb went off near a catholic church in Dhobighat of Lalitpur district today, hours before the country was set to elect a new prime minister. The blast took place at 9.15 am when as prayer was about to begin.

May 2nd, 2009 KATHMANDU - Nepal's Catholic church has become embroiled in the row between St Xavier's, the country's oldest and best-known school run by Jesuit fathers, and the teachers' union over the dismissal of a staff member. Father Anthony Amulyanath Sharma, ordained Nepal's first bishop by Pope Benedict, Saturday expressed 'full support' for the church-run school that has been locked in a fierce dispute with the Nepal Institutional School Teachers' Union (NISTU) since the beginning of this year.