Priests must look out for “red flags” when baptising asylum seekers because some are faking conversion, an evangelical church leader has said.
Pastor Graham Nicholls, the director of Affinity, a network of 1,200 evangelical churches and ministries in the UK, said that church leaders “need discernment” to “test whether people are genuine in their beliefs”, adding that in some cases, some prospective converts are “faking it”.
His intervention came as the manhunt for Abdul Shokoor Ezedi, the Clapham chemical attack suspect, continued on Monday with Metropolitan Police detectives saying he could be dead in the River Thames.
