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Amritsar is at the epicentre of the Sikh faith, for it is home to the Golden Temple, the holiest of Sikh shrines. For Sikhs it is both a place where Punjab's wealth is on full display, as well as an i...

NEW ZEALAND, April 20, 2007: Mosques and Indian temples are expected to become more familiar sights as the increasing numbers of Muslim and Hindu immigrants seek to express their cultural roots. While the number of people who stated they were Hindus, Muslims or Sikhs in the latest Census remained small compared with the country's main Christian denominations, they have increased dramatically in percentage terms. The number stating affiliation to Hinduism leaped 61.8 percent in the five years since the preceding Census, Islam 52.6 percent and Sikhism 83 percent.

WASHINGTON, D.C.,March 29, 2007: The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) welcomed the introduction of House Resolution 245, recognizing the festival of Diwali, or Deepavali as it is known in Sanskrit. The resolution recognizing the significance of the festival in the religious and cultural life of over two million Hindus, Sikhs and Jains in the United States was referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform by Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) and Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), co-chairs of the Congressional India Caucus. A similar resolution introduced in the 109th Congress in 2006 by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), also at the Foundation's urging, garnered over thirty-five cosponsors.

In the last month, a long-standing and emotional issue for British Hindus and Sikhs entered the national press, namely the pressure that many [...]

In the last month, a long-standing and emotional issue for British Hindus and Sikhs entered the national press, namely the pressure that many [...]

Recently there have been several articles in the national press about the pressure that many Hindus and Sikhs growing up in Britain, especially young women, are put under to convert to Islam by a certain radicalised section of Muslim youth. There have been mixed responses and a variety of opinions [...]

Recently there have been several articles in the national press about the pressure that many Hindus and Sikhs growing up in Britain, especially young women, are put under to convert to Islam by a certain radicalised section of Muslim youth. There have been mixed responses and a variety of opinions [...]

SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, March 12, 2007: The picture on Page 95 of "An Age of Voyages: 1350-1600," a seventh-grade history book used in California schools since last fall, had been unremarkable to state education officials: a stiff 19th-century portrait of a man with a trimmed beard holding a few beads and wearing a crown. But for Sikhs, that image of Guru Nanak (1469-1538), their religion's founder, is anathema to everything they believe about the prophet, a simple man who preached to the poor and certainly, they say, never wore a crown. So, after months of lobbying by Sikhs, the California Board of Education voted unanimously on Thursday to ask the book's publisher to remove the portrait from future printings, and to provide a sticker with another image or text to place over the portrait in existing copies.