JHAPA, NEPAL, August 24, 2016 (Himalayan Times): An American national was arrested for preaching Christianity to locals with an intention to force them into changing their religion. The suspect has been identified as 70-year-old Fomess Dolan, according to the Jhapa District Police Office. He was arrested from a local church, Hosma Academy. police added. According to police, he had entered Nepal without a visa via India.
He was posing himself as a doctor who had come to help the locals, stated DSP Hari Prasad Sharma of the DPO. He asked the women who came to him seeking treatment to wash off the sindur (vermilion powder) from their foreheads and discard potes (traditional glass beads worn by married Hindu women) in the name of Jesus. The locals then reported him to police for trying to make them change their religion.