India orders American missionary to leave
Indian authorities have ordered an American missionary to leave the country a week after suspected Hindu zealots attacked him for preaching religion. Evangelist Joseph W. Cooper of the New Jerusalem church in Pennsylvania is charged with violating a visa rule that prohibits visitors from preaching at religious meetings. Cooper, who is recuperating from stab wounds in a private hospital, has been asked to leave within seven days. “We have served orders to Cooper to leave the country within seven days for preaching while on a tourist visa and thereby violating visa rules,” police superintendent T.K. Vinod Kumar said. Full Story