By LiCAS.news
NEPAL – Calm has returned to Nepal after days of violent protests that left 72 young people dead and hundreds injured.
Schools, including Catholic institutions, have reopened as the country adjusts to a transitional government led by new Prime Minister Sushila Karki.
“The situation is currently relatively calm, with no demonstrators on the streets. Schools have reopened, both public and Catholic, and life is proceeding quite smoothly,” said Father Silas Bogati, Apostolic Administrator of the Vicariate of Nepal, in an interview with Vatican’s Fides News Agency.
Karki, Nepal’s first female prime minister, is expected to lead a six-month caretaker government until new elections are held next year.
Father Bogati said the Catholic community is reassured by her record of defending justice. “We as a Catholic community also have confidence in Sushila Karki,” he said,
Bogati recalled Karki’s time as a lawyer when she defended a priest and several sisters wrongly accused in court cases.
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