Missionaries entered Nepal in 1715, when Capuchin fathers arrived at the Kathmandu Valley at the invitation of ... Sharma as the first vicar and the first Nepalese bishop of the Catholic Church.

“I am happy to become a Catholic and feel like a liberated human being now,” said the 40-year-old auto-rickshaw driver from Kohalpur, a small town in the southern plains of Nepal, around 500 ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (CNN)-- At least 23 people died when part of a church collapsed in eastern Nepal, police said Wednesday. The church in the town of Dharan, about 150 miles (240 km) east of ...