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Facebook Polices Religious Intolerance Millions Have Viewed Pages Offensive to Sikhs By Anju Kaur, SikhNN staff writer, Washington Bureau Posted: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 | 11:10 pm ’How long are these turban jokes on Faceboook gonna curry on for?’ is an example of a hate-mongering...

By Tara Bahrampour Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, December 22, 2010; 10:22 PM Ever since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, a trip to the airport has been fraught for Muslims, who sometimes feel they are being profiled as potential terrorists because of their religion. The...

i am persuaing an engineering degree and most of the time i just have to devote time to my studies and family only. i get so stressed with work that being a strict follower of my religion becomes almost not possible. i do talk to God on my own, thank him on every good occasion and do pray him...

A growing number of European countries have passed or are contemplating restrictions on religious dress in public places. The impetus for these restrictions is the debate in Europe about the wearing of Muslim veils. The debate reflects tensions in increasingly pluralist societies struggling with...

Future of Faith Young Canadians increasingly shunning religious institutions MICHAEL VALPY From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Published Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010 9:00PM EST If the future for institutional religion in Canada lies in the hearts and minds of the young, a dark night is sweeping down...

WASHINGTON: The news of US President Barack Obama not visiting the Golden Temple at Amritsar during his recent visit to India, is among the top ten religious stories of 2010 , according to the Time magazine...

Boy Brings Religious Dagger To Class Parent Fears Dagger Could End Up In Wrong Hands ClickonDetroit.com updated 12/11/2010 They’re not allowed in airplanes, but one local student brought a religious dagger to class. A student carried a Sikh ceremonial dagger known as a Kirpan to Bentley...

Ajeet Singh stopped from bringing ceremonial Sikh sword onto premises LAHORE: A Sikh man is planning to file a writ petition against Lahore High Court (LHC) security personnel after he was stopped from entering the court premises with his kirpaan, the ceremonial Sikh sword. Ajeet Singh...

by Ayan Panja My wife and I had always said we'd consider adopting a child of any religion or ethnicity. At one stage we had provisionally been matched with a little girl. The phone call from our social worker informing us of a possible match was a real moment of hope. Were we finally going...

This is a very interesting article. It comes from the United Kingdom, in fact from a blog of a Church of England Official. The posting from the blog was taken from a US State Department report. It describes how religious expression in the United Kingdom looks to officials in the United States...

This thread has been redirected from Sehajdhari Sikh Foundaton: Comments Please !http://www.sikhphilosophy.net/sikh-sikhi-sikhism/29484-sehajdhari-sikh-federation-comments-please.html My thoughts exactly -- thank you for putting it so well! ballym, when I read what you are saying (and thank...

They came to this country for better opportunities but found it inhospitable instead. It came in the form of severe bullying. In fact, a local Sikh family thought about going back to India as their son was mercilessly bullied. Sikhism is something unfamiliar to many in the West. A...

By Siddhartha Vaidyanathan For Vikas Khanna, a New York-based chef, a meal is about much more than just eating the food that’s prepared. Mr. Khanna talks lovingly about a meal, the sense of community that accompanies it and the emotions it’s capable of evoking. “Even now, when I eat my...

Forwarded for posting by forum member Tejwant Singh ji Malik Many Americans would be happy to wake up tomorrow, and discover an Islamic center was not going to be built near Ground Zero and that they would not have to hear of another pastor planning to burn Qurans. The decisions would be...

As we scan the political, economic, judicial and academic landscape these days, women are ascending to leadership positions in unprecedented numbers. Think of it: the first woman Speaker of the House, three women serving as Secretary of State and the first credible woman candidate for President...

In hopes of protecting students from religious discrimination, two U.S. lawmakers have introduced legislation that would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include religion to Title VI, which already prohibits discrimination based on "race, color, or national origin." Several...

Many sociologists of religion, as well as the general public, seem to take for granted the causal relationship between higher education and the decline of religion. The more educated someone becomes, the theory goes, the less religious they are likely to be. As European and American universities...

A new survey of Americans' knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths. Forty-five...

0 6views Get Religion Alerts * Email * Comments 2 By John L. Esposito and Sheila B. Lalwani It is the 10th anniversary of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act. Hold your applause. The federal bill President Clinton signed into law in...

Diverse group protects religious harmony in Singapore By Philip Lim (AFP) – 1 day ago SINGAPORE — Seated near the head of a long table, Roman Catholic nun Theresa Seow led 14 other people in silent prayer before the meeting was called to order. Clad in a white habit topped by the...