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Children are being denied the enjoyment of the outdoors and nature with consequences for their health, the head of the National Trust has warned. Dame Fiona Reynolds told the Times the freedom of children to roam unsupervised had shrunk massively since the 1970s. She blamed nervousness and...

60,000 children in India go missing each year India Gazette Friday 2nd March, 2012 • Kidnapping is rife and growing alarmingly in India • Children taken for ransom, prositution, slave labour and begging • 20,000 of those who disappear each year are never found An abducted...

Violence against women and children now a criminal offence in Pakistan Agence France-Presse Feb 20, 2012 – 1:41 PM ET ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s Senate on Monday passed a bill that makes violence against women and children an offence carrying jail terms and fines, state media said. The...

Adult children need parents’ approval to stay with them: Bombay high court Shibu Thomas, TNN | Feb 8, 2012, 03.22AM IST MUMBAI: Children, after becoming adults, need their parents' permission to stay in their personal property, the Bombay high court has observed. The court was hearing a...

6 November 2011 Last updated at 05:19 ET Children in charge of Holland Park Sikh temple By Catrin Nye Sikh temple in London is handing control over to children for one day a month. Catrin Nye reports. A Sikh Gurdwara in west London has put children at the heart of its running for...

India: Catholic Church Urges Catholics To Have More Children By NIRMALA GEORGE 10/11/11 07:25 AM ET NEW DELHI -- Worried about its dwindling numbers, the Roman Catholic church in southern India is exhorting its flock to have more children, with some parishes offering free...

by Nick Collins A study of more than 13,000 young people found that 77 per cent of those who described themself as Hindu at the age of 15 went on to higher education, compared with 45 per cent of Christians. Some 63 per cent of Sikh teenagers and 53 per cent of Muslims went on to study at...

UNHCR in Somalia 'human tragedy' warning Many young children are in such a weak condition it is difficult to save their lives The levels of malnutrition among children fleeing Somalia's drought could lead...

Gurfateh Sangatji My dear mother and father, pleased that I have stopped calling myself an atheist, sent me this link to encourage me today., Some of you may have seen it before, it is an animated version of Guru Nanak's life It also answered a question that I had had for some time, Did...

Children who watch parents drink 'are twice as likely to binge on alcohol' Young people also more likely to drink if parents leave them unsupervised, according to Joseph Rowntree survey...

Kenneth J. Doka, M.Div., Ph.D. Senior Consultant, Hospice Foundation of America As children encounter illness, loss and grief -- whether their own or someone close to them -- they seek to understand those events and to make sense of their experiences. This inevitably is a spiritual...

Khalsa Women and Meer Mannu's Jail Without any doubt, Sikh women had played an equal part in the struggle to keep alive the Khalsa ideals and beliefs. Sikh women worked as a silent majority in the background and sometimes as in the case of Mai Bhago exceeded the Khalsa men in warfare. But...

The Lost Children of Punjab: 1984-2011 Posted by Mehmaan (Guest) A couple days ago I was reading some news articles on Hondh Chillar and Pataudi. Some of these articles include photographs from the two big events that took place at Hondh Chillar–clean up of the destroyed gurdwara building...

Indian man has 39 wives, nearly 100 children Reuters - February 22, 2011 The more, the merrier is certainly true for Ziona Chana, a 66-year-old man in India's remote northeast who has 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren -- and wouldn't mind having more. They all live in a...

7 children go missing every hour Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan Times New Delhi, February 20, 2011 India’s children are missing at a much faster rate than ever before with as many as 60,000 young ones below 18 reported missing in 2009 as compared to 44,000 in 2004 — a jump of 35%. What is...

Sikhs for Haiti: 2010 in Retrospect Selfless Service to continue in 2011 for the Children of Haiti Highlights: * An year after the Earthquake, the work in Haiti continues * UNITED SIKHS joins hands with the Sikh Community in Canada and USA to continue the work in Haiti for a better...

Supporting Sikligars Sikhs is very important as we often forget them, yet they are such an important part of Sikh community and rich history. Sikligars Sikhs were the lohars (ironsmiths/blacksmiths) who once specialized in the craft of making and polishing weapons. Once more commonly known as...

Women and Wellness - Giving our children a moral compass GITA ARJUN How do we go about instilling the right values in our children? Rashmita was in the kitchen getting dinner ready. Her two teenage children were chattering away with visiting friends. She was not paying much attention...

by Mogana Pilla SINGAPORE - December may be the time when many young Singaporeans are off on a family holiday but a group of them will be away on a more noble mission. They are heading to Mandiala, a village in India's Punjab state, to help build a library there for underprivileged and...

As the air becomes crisp and we see the vibrant falling leaves around us, often people of faith turn their attention toward giving. Even while we get caught in the frenzy of holiday decorating and menu planning, we think about how to share the abundance of the year and how to teach our kids to...