Nepal's Hindu monarchy was abolished six years ago, but the country is yet to complete its transition to a secular democracy by declaring its new constitution. Its constituent assembly has missed several deadlines for the announcement, two in the last two months. The country's first democratic election was held in 2008 after a bloody civil war led by Maoist guerrillas overthrew the monarchy. Now Nepal's Christians, who are about 3% of the population, hope for equal rights and religious freedom to be guaranteed in the new constitution. But as Nepal's political parties continue to fail to agree on what it will contain, latest deadline estimates are the end of May. And Christians who've suffered persecution and inequality for decades are uncertain about their future. There is no law as it is at the moment in the present constitution which can identify organizations as being Christian or Muslim or Hindu like that. And according to the NGO law, they are not allowed to be engaged in religious activities. So if Christian organizations are doing religious activities, they can be prosecuted. As far as the Christians are concerned, the top three agenda pariahs are that we should have a constitution at the audience because the country cannot go on like this. The transition period is too long, so that's number one. To institutionalize the historic gains like republics set up and secular state. For which thousands of people, more than 70,000 people sacrifice their lives. And number three will be that there will be full religious freedom because secularism does not always mean religious freedom as we have seen in other parts of the world. We have defined full religious freedom. The inter-religious council in Nepal also has talked about this and the other minority religious groups have talked about. What we have defined is like that every citizen will have the freedom to choose the religion of his or her choice. Number one. Number two is that people will be free to share their faith with fellow citizens. And then also people should have the freedom not to believe in any religion. When Christians in Nepal talk about the right to practice their faith, they also refer to the right to have a legal identity for their churches and organizations. And the right to bury their dead. There is no respect for Christianity. And also of course we are not allowed to have openly fellowship. Government allows us to have fellowship inside the whole, inside the building. But our church is not registered. That's the huge difficulties we have. The church is not legally recognized by the government. That's why the property of the church is in the name of the church. And the name of the three or four people sometimes church lose the property. So we are really worried about the future. Because churches cannot be registered as churches, what's happening now is that there are group of people who form the committee, church committee. Now they have bought the land on their collective limbs, like three people, four people, pastor, etc. Now sometimes when they don't get on with each other, then they start saying, okay, we'll split the church. Therefore we'll split the land. When a Christian died, there is nobody around. So we really have to hurry when person died. And also secretly and immediately within the hour we have to take into the jungle where nobody can see. Or in the midnight we have to take that body. We are also not given a security to body, the dead body. Sometimes Hindu coming and beating and the same dead body, we are actually taking out three time and body three times. I have an example, my brother-in-law passed away. And we had to drive that the dead body for five hours. Because we did not get a body lot here, symmetry here in Kathmandu valley. See some churches have small piece of land where they can bury their people. But even they have a problem of just getting access to the land. The land belongs to them but the road is public. So when they take the dead body, the problem is that some people just come up, get together and make disturbance so that they cannot reach the barogram. Now they are also talking about electric cremation. It has been on for a long time. But some Christians do not feel that electric cremation fulfills their spiritual kind of feelings. The inequality for Nepal's minorities reflects social and political attitudes. Nepal was a Hindu kingdom for centuries and some Hindus now feel uneasy about losing the supremacy they enjoyed in the past. And the recent victory of the Hindu nationalist Bharti Janta party in neighboring India has made Nepal's right wing Hindu groups even bolder in resisting the idea of secularism and in accusing Christians of unethical conversions. The relation between the Hindus and Christians is at different levels, depends who you are and who they are. Some Hindus are stout Hindus and they just do not want to know or hear the word Christian. And some intellectuals, they repeat Gandhi's statement saying, I like Christ but not Christians. Some are like that and some are very, very helpful, very positive and very supportive. A lot of these politicians are anti-Christians now. And with the rise of the BJP in India, they think that the BJP is going to support them forever. It is the one political party is trying to win the votes on anti-Christian feeling. Now that doesn't do good to Nepal. That is divisive. Conversion is entirely personal but then they say that we are converting them by giving them enticements which we are not doing. Even in society when people come to know that I am a Christian or if I say I am a Christian, they immediately jump and say, oh you became Christian just because of the benefits, just because of the dollar or just because of some experiences of financial experiences. So they don't see the truth from the Bible, why, how they have become Christian. Even in Christian assembly, political parties, they get candidates from different groups, different minorities, from Muslim, from even gay community. They have a representation from the gay community and we are almost more than a three percentage community and they just ignore us. The way our Hindu friends are going ahead and the language they are using, the hate speech they are using and violence they are exhibiting like the forming army, forming Sena. We will attack churches, we will destroy churches, we will break the legs of Christian, this kind of language, it will be counter-product to Hinduism. We have been treated in the past like second class citizen. We do not have long history of Christianity of Nepal in 1950. Since 1950, let King Thribon allowed Christians to live in the nation before Rana Rijim, Devaynath, Allowing Christians to live in the nation. 2006 is the year we had, I mean our nation is declared as the secular nation. Though we are here 1.1 million Christians, government has not accepted as one of the religions of the nation. Christians are hoping and praying for the best amid the delay in announcing a new constitution. But they say they are also prepared for the worst and to carry on come what may. We have to love our brothers, irrespective of their faith, irrespective of their level of spirituality. Because God, there is only one God and there is only one creator. Therefore they may be Hindus, Muslims, whatever. They are still God's creation and they are our brothers. As Christians, we are always prepared to work and to live our faith under any circumstances. So, hindrances, difficulties, obstacles do not hinder Christians from living their Christian faith and also propagating and sharing their faith. Even though there are some voices, some groups of people who are very happy with this and who would like to see Nepal become a Hindu kingdom again, but I think Nepal cannot go back.