Jarekopaat, what P.N Shah did was to stop British infiltration.   He banned Christianity because the religion and whites were synonymous at the time.  I believe it was a good decision.  I think St. Xavier’s and Mary’s were around during the Panchayat.  I still remember my elementary school teachers from Darjeeling bragging about Church and Christmas in class.  The incidents described by Sheetalb don’t really qualify to be persecution.   That’s isolated case of profiling and we know it happens even in U.S where initial settlers came to practice religious freedom.  Apart from the inconvenience of finding beef, I don’t think anyone has been harmed just because Nepal is or was a Hindu state.