A claim is getting viral on social media that a priest of Goa church has left Christianity and got converted to Sanatan Dharma.
A user shared a picture of the alleged Christian priest in his tweet and wrote- Father Anthony Fernandes of Goa’s Zionist Church, a Catholic priest whose family had been Christian for 400 years, has left Christianity and returned to Sanatan Dharma. On his return home, he said “he needs a place to live with the truth, he is tired of lying round the clock even in his sleep.”
Many other users have also shared this picture with similar claims.
Fact check:
The DFRAC team first reverse searched the image to analyze the viral claim and found the same picture on Wikipedia. Given information about the picture, it was told that this picture is from the Ojciec Mateusz serial.
Ojciec Mateusz (Father Matthew) is a Polish television drama series that has aired on TVP1 since November 11, 2008. It is the Polish version of the Italian spy series Don Mateo aired in Italy by Rai Uno.
Conclusion
It is clear from the verification of DFRAC that the viral picture and claim are fake.
