India, Oct. 30 -- US Vice President JD Vance has said that he hopes his Indian-origin wife, Usha, will one day become a Christian.

"Now most Sundays Usha will come with me to church," Vance said at a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi on Wednesday. "As I've told her and I've said publicly, and I'll say now in front to 10,000 of my closest friends: Do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved in by church? Yeah, I honestly do with that. Because I believe in the Christian gospel and I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way," he said.

However, he also added that "If she doesn't, then God says everybody has free will, so that doesn't cause a problem for me."

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