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May 1, 2015

Amid Nepal’s shattered shrines and temples, a religious fatalism sets in

Bishop Paul Simick of Nepal visits 4-year-old Catholic Sujina Ghale and her mother, Chaju Ghale, in Banyatar, Nepal, April 30. Sujina was presumed dead and was kept among dead bodies for cremation after she was pulled out of the debris of the house following the April 25 earthquake.

KATHMANDU, Nepal - When a 7.8-magnitude earthquake roared through this Himalayan nation April 25, leaving an estimated 5,500 dead and more than 11,000 injured, shrines and temples were sent crashing to the ground, many of them centuries old and irreplaceable cultural treasures.

Published in International