proselytize

1. V-T/V-I If you proselytize, you try to persuade someone to share your beliefs, especially religious or political beliefs. 使改变宗教(或政治)信仰[正式]

I assured him we didn't come here to proselytize. 我向他保证我们并不是来改变他的信仰的。

Christians were arrested for trying to convert people, to proselytise them. 基督徒因为试图改变他人的信仰而被捕。