London, July 29: A church minister has banned an over-50s yoga group as she has deemed the exercise un-Christian.
Reverend Amanda Roper of Radcliffe, Manchester, was concerned that the tutors in the popular, gentle Indian activity - linked to Hinduism and Buddhism - could be preaching the rival religions.
And she feared the yoga group''s 30 members, aged up to 82, could be "spiritually vulnerable".
Now the group - which for the last ten years has paid 60-pound a week to meet at Bridge Methodist Church in Radcliffe, near Manchester - is looking for new premises.