Nepal: Past, Present and Future | ZENIT - The World Seen From Rome
Q: You are the country's first bishop. What was your feeling when you were called and appointed?
Bishop Sharma: I wasn't quite happy with that. I've been resisting this appointment for a long time because, I felt, the rightful people that should be honored with this appointment should be coming from the ethnic community, a person from the ethnic community. And this because the majority of our people belong to the ethnic communities in Nepal.
You said earlier on that 75% -- that's debatable I said -- because 70% of our population are ethnic and 20% are only strictly Hindus. But Hindus being the ruling class, they have embraced the 70% and made it 90%. These ethnic communities belong to various caste groups; they have their own rituals, own priests, own rites, everything their own. And they don't like being counted among the Hindus, but they had no choice being under the ruling class.
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