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Sheriff Lee Baca Honored by Ethnic, Religious Groups By PARIMAL M. ROHIT ANAHEIM, Calif. — Nearly 250 people helped the Council of Pakistan American Chamber of Commerce and members of various local churches, synagogues, gurudwaras, temples and Islamic Centers to commemorate Los Angeles...

(Washington D.C., 5/26/2011) - Since 2008, Sahaj Singh Khalsa, a Sikh American paramedic from New Mexico, has been discriminated against by his employer because of his mandated religious identity. Mr. Khalsa has endured disparaging remarks and threats, and, in one incident, was even physically...

Can a dress code bar ethnic attire based on customer preferences? from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission/US (May 2, 2011) Issue: Tony, one of your department managers, is in your office reviewing finalists for an available cashier position. He wants to hire Narinder, a South...

LONDON: Indian religious organizations across all major faiths are diversifying their "business model" to maintain the loyalty of their followers and attract new devotees. This is the finding of a Cambridge University study, carried out over two years surveying 568 Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh...

Standing in Solidarity with Religious Minorities; Affirming Our Values as Sikhs March 11, 2011 (Washington, DC) – Yesterday morning, the Committee on Homeland Security in the U.S. House of Representatives began investigative hearings on domestic radicalization. The hearings singled out...

David Briggs Writer, Association of Religion Data Archives Posted: February 28, 2011 10:00 PM A prominent 19th century preacher knew how to spark the flame of violence against immigrants with different religious beliefs: Portray them as part of an international conspiracy against...

SOME taxi drivers will be exempted from wearing hats or keeping beards under the new Public Service Vehicle Code of Conduct. The Fiji Taxi Union said drivers with religious beliefs could wear hats or keep beards, which should be trimmed neatly. FTU general secretary, Rishi Ram said, "Only...

[B]Sikhs 'disappointed' by Quebec vote barring kirpans from assembly[/B QUEBEC — Members of Canada's Sikh community said they were 'disappointed' Wednesday evening after Quebec's national assembly adopted a motion by a vote of 113-0 supporting the decision by security workers to bar four...

Canadian religious groups ‘don’t compete’ like U.S. ones: professor Charles Lewis - THE NATIONAL POST February 6, 2011 – 7:27 pm Competition, innovation and entrepreneurialism, all qualities normally associated with business, may explain why the United States is more religious than Canada...

By John L. Esposito Professor of Religion and International Affairs Note: This post was co-authored by Sheila B. Lalwani. Conflicts and killings from Africa to Southeast Asia have brought into sharp relief the significant threat to religious minorities in some Muslim societies. While...

Dr. Tarunjit Singh Butalia On Jan. 18, four representatives of the World Sikh Organization of Canada were refused entry into the Quebec National Assembly because they were wearing the kirpan -- a religious requirement of the Sikh Faith for those formally initiated. The Sikhs had gone there to...

NEW YORK, Jan. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The ability of the Sikh community to practice its faith freely is a good litmus test of freedom for those that manifest their religious identity. UNITED SIKHS finds in the Global Sikh Civil & Human Rights Report 2010 released today that Sikhs...

Inside Politics Blog Question of the Day * By Ryan Hicks The kirpan -- the ceremonial dagger worn by many Sikhs -- is not considered a weapon by law. Many Sikhs wear it in public places. Bloc MP Claude DeBellefeuille is proposing a ban on kirpans in the House of Commons. This came...

Lisa D. Pearce and Melinda Lundquist Denton Are you religious? What criteria come to mind in answering that question? When evaluating how "religious" someone is, social scientists and the general public tend to rely on the frequency of religious activities, strength or type of religious...

David Sehat Author, 'The Myth of American Religious Freedom' Today (Jan. 16) is the National Day of Religious Freedom, a day in which we are supposed both to recognize our nation's heritage of religious liberty and to promote that liberty to the world. But as Walter Lippmann once said...

Members of a Michigan Sikh community are upset after a student was banned from bringing a religious sword to a public school. The incident occurred at Bentley Elementary School in Canton when a fourth grader was caught wearing a small saber underneath his clothing, reports MyFoxDetriot...

Blast Awakens Egyptians to Threat From Religious Strife Mona ElNaggar reporting CAIRO — A deadly suicide bomb attack outside a Christian church in Alexandria on Saturday has forced the government and religious leaders here to acknowledge that Egypt is increasingly plagued by a sectarian...

The killing of a moderate Pakistani governor is a blow to minorities. THE death of Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab, has brought Pakistan to the forefront of world affairs in a way that 20 million displaced Pakistani flood victims could not. In August, Taseer told the BBC of the need...

On Twitter, Glimpses of a Slain Pakistani Governor’s War on Religious ‘Fanatics’ By ROBERT MACKEY Updated | 1:32 p.m. As my colleagues Salman Masood and Carlotta Gall report, the governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province, Salman Taseer, was shot and killed by one of his guards on Tuesday...

It Is A North Indian Coin from region of PUNJAB and depicts the Sikh faith. A rare coin purportedly minted 260 years ago in 1748 by one of the Sikh missals. (Minted 1804 is Hindu calendar call Vikram Smavat started 56 years ahead of Georgian Calendar) The coin made of an alloy resembling bronze...