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Christian groups pan India’s expulsion of wounded US evangelist

New Delhi (ENI). Christian groups have decried the expulsion from India of a US Pentecostal preacher who had been the target of a violent attack believed to have been carried out by Hindu nationalists. The evangelist, Joseph Cooper, left India on Wednesday having been told by the authorities to quit India for misusing a tourist visa. Cooper and six other Pentecostals had been assaulted by an armed gang at the end of an evangelistic meeting on 13 January in the southern Indian state of Kerala.

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