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With the global economy still in the doldrums, this year's World Environment Day on 5 June is trumpeting the merits of the Green Economy as an alternative way of creating jobs and growth - without trashing the planet. It also takes place 15 days before the snappily-titled Rio+20 United...

His Holiness the Dalai Lama is in London today to receive the Templeton Prize in recognition of his outstanding achievements and spiritual wisdom. Tibet has a long-standing connection to Britain. Prior to the Chinese invasion in 1949-50, Britain was the only country to formally recognize...

Why religious freedom matters The Star, Toronto ( Ontario )- February 23, 2012 Sue Gunawardena-Vaughn and Aaron Myers Earlier this year in Indonesia, a civil servant was attacked by a mob at his government office then handed over to the police after posting “God doesn’t exist” to...

When my wife and I decided to move our family from Maplewood to Beijing in 2005 we weren't really sure what it would mean for our Jewish life. We were prepared to scale it back for a few years, and to take more responsibility for keeping the Jewish education of our three children, then aged 2, 4...

What does your religion mean to you? I suggest that on religious festivals after performing expected rituals, people should spend a little time — about half-an-hour — in silence and ask themselves: "What does my religion really mean to me?" Hindus could do this on Ram Navmi or Diwali, Muslims...

June 24 (IANS) Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal Thursday asked the Congress party not to interfere in the religious matters of the Sikhs with an eye to the forthcoming Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) general elections. Addressing a public rally in this town in...

Do You Support Criminal Intimidation/Violence as used by so called pro-Dasam Granth followers to Resolve Panthic Matters? Don't you think this shocking incidence has brought Sikhi into disrepute and spoiled all international efforts to put Sikhs into the good light... Have your say in these...

Why 1984 Still Matters – the furore around Sonia Deol’s BBC documentary At the start of this year BBC 1, Britain’s premiere TV channel, highlighted the importance of 1984 to the Sikh psyche with a film documenting the personal journey of a British Sikh woman, journalist Sonia Deol. The...

Movement That Gets Its Cue From Heady Matters (New York Times) http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/search/sikh/SIG=11slm79tg/*http%3A//www.nytimes.com/2006/02/11/arts/dance/11hark.html Array Sat, 11 Feb 2006 09:43:53 GMT Todd Williams is a silky, remarkable dancer for whom choreography is a...

Srinagar, June 28: Minister of State for Law and Gurdwara Affairs, S.Manjeet Singh today convened a meeting of Presidents of District Gurdwara Parbandhak Committees and discussed various matters relating to Gurdwara affairs and problems of Sikh community...

Nihilism... a doctrine... a particular perspective of life where 'nothing matters'. If we accept a nihilistic death - i.e. an end to the physical consciousness without an after life - then we must accept that the ultimate sum of our experiences will be nothingness... Now, as per Nihilism...