from http://www.nepalmonitor.com/newslook/2006/12/only_in_nepal_many_maoists_are.html Only in Nepal: Many Maoists are Christians Who says Maoists are atheists? New Delhi’s Nepali Maoists’ locales have become a hotbed of Christian activities, comments Sandhya Jain in the Daily Pioneer newspaper. She adds: "While second-in-command Baburam Bhattarai and his family are openly Christian, Prachanda does not proclaim his religious affiliations but his wife's entire family is Christian. His guru, Chandra Pradesh Gajurel, was a Christian preacher. Sources estimate that the 42,000-strong Maoist army would be 30 per cent Christian, but the cadre are kept in the dark that the top leadership is predominantly Christian." The question is, how did Nepal's news media miss this undoutedly a big story?