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Anti-conversion law holds strong in Nepal

Nepal (MNN) — Seventeen U.S. citizens and one citizen from India were detained in Nepal in early February. The accusation? Attempting to convert people to Christianity. The group was in Nepal with 15-day tourist visas and participated in a construction project on a local church. Authorities confiscated their documents for further investigation of the allegations.“I think it's very possible it's misconstrued, because what I saw in the report was they were just doing social type work. They were [b