A THAI-based organisation called The Blood Foundation has launched a programme enabling folk to sample a variety of different faiths. The foundation’s smorgasbord of spirituality, according to the BBC, kicked off with a “Muslim for a Month” trial staged at Eyup Mosque in Istanbul. Said one participant, Barbra Taylor from Hawaii: [Some people] feel anyone [...]
SIKHS worldwide have expressed outrage over an incident in Punjab which resulted in a police officer snatching a turban off the head of a young protester. The incident, according to this report, took place on March 28 when pharmacists from Punjab gathered in Mohali for a peaceful sit-in. Punjab police first charged the gathering with [...]
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THERE are fewer than 3,000 Sikhs in Austria -but even among this tiny number there are bitter sectarian differences that led to the killing yesterday of a preacher in a temple in Vienna. Guru Sant Rama Nand, 57, died from gunshot wounds after an emergency operation. A second, Guru Sant Niranjan Dass, 68, is in [...]
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A GROUP of Sikhs have been frozen out of an upcoming interfaith meeting with Pope Benedict XVI because of their insistence on wearing ceremonial daggers. According to Worldwide Religious News, the meeting, scheduled for April 17 at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Centre in the US, originally included Sikhs, as well as Hindu, Jewish, [...]
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