Pastor arrested in India after being accused of ‘illegal conversion’ cruxnow.com
Police in India arrested two people – including a clergyman – on Sunday under charges of “religious conversion attempt” on over 100 people.
According to PTI news service, a pastor and his associate were arrested at Easter in Kanpur, a large industrial city in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
Police claimed to have caught the church pastor and his associate while ferrying over 100 people in buses to the neighbouring Unnao district for unlawful religious conversion.
Christians make up less than half-a-percent of the population of the city, which is 78 percent Hindu.
Police identified the arrested Christians as Pastor Simon William and his associate, Deepak Morris, both residents of Kanpur and members of the Pentecostal Church….
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