India’s prime minister denounces social work

MUMBAI, India — Newspapers in India have published comments by Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, in which he allegedly said that Christian missionaries are using service to the poor and needy as a guise for performing conversions. Not only are Vajpayee’s comments controversial, but they were made at a function at his residence, said Joseph D’Souza, president of the All…