Asylum seeker claims he converted to Christianity but can only name one of Ten Commandments [Video]

AN asylum seeker claimed he converted to Christianity but only knew one of the Ten Commandments.

He also could not name where Jesus was born.

The Iranian, 42, whose name was not given, told immigration officials he was a practising Christian after his application for refugee status was rejected in 2019.

He appealed but a tribunal heard that in a religion test he did not know Jesus was born in Bethlehem.

It also emerged he did not attend church and had not been baptised.

The tribunal heard his solicitor “accepted in submissions that (the Christianity) aspect of the appellant’s claim was not the strongest”.

Judge Graeme Clarke made “damning credibility findings” and rejected his bid to stay.

In another case a Nigerian in his 60s said he would be persecuted for converting to Christianity if sent home.

But the man had “almost no knowledge” of Islam …