Nepal
Nepal
Constitutional monarchy in Asia between India and China ; 56,800 square miles; population 28,200,000. Catholic missionaries, especially from Portugal , visited this region as early as the 16th century , and in successive organizations of missions, prefectures, and dioceses, the territory has been included with Tibet or with the adjoining part of northern India . A new Mission “Sui Iuris” of Nepal was founded on 7 October 1983, elevated to the Prefecture Apostolic of Nepal on 9 November 1996, and then to a Vicariate Apostolic on 10 February 2007, but only a tiny percentage of the population is Christian .
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