Browsing Tag: Community

Follow the sounds and the smells, I was told. The description of a close-knit Sikh community in this majority-minority Chinese and Taiwanese Los Angeles suburb led me to Alhambra on a bright, bustling Sunday.

A much-loved family doctor who spent more than 50 years treating patients at Eskasoni First Nation is giving back to the community by donating 140 hectares of land to the reserve. He’s also turning over to the band a commercial building and property in downtown Sydney.

The Punjabi-American Festival, held each year on the last Sunday in May, is organized by the Punjabi-American Heritage Society, which was founded in 1993 to encourage cross-cultural understanding in the community.

Like Scotch broom and dandelions, despair can be invasive.

Worshippers at a Sikh temple in southwest Fresno, close to where an elderly Sikh man was attacked while walking on South Cherry Avenue a week ago, say they want to encourage a spirit of unity in the community.

All parties are often guilty of focusing too heavily on the negative aspects of immigration and multiculturalism but I believe British Sikhs should be recognised for not only for their great success in fully integrating themselves into British society but also for their extraordinary contributions.

Now many gurduaras have started Sunday schools to impart the rudiments of Sikhism to children of Sikh families. No one can object to that. This is how they will stay connected to their very rich and timeless heritage. But with it come messages to push the very young towards an amritdhari life. One could ask: “So what’s the harm? Isn’t this the idea of Sikhi?

On December 16, 2012, in response to the tragic events and suffering at Newtown, CT, WSC-AR coordinated with Sikh Americans from ten Sikh Gurdwaras (of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey), to attend the candlelight vigil and interfaith prayer service held at Newtown High School.

“This was a complex development which began three years ago and has involved the acquisition of various properties, site assembly and extensive consultation with the local community and the city council. It’s fantastic to see the winter sun gleaming on the golden globes...

Now more than 25 Sikh families call the Queen of Arabian Sea their home. A proof of that is the Gurudwara they built in Thevara. It is here that the faithful from all over the city congregate on important days in the Sikh calendar. Sitting on a 25-cent land, the Gurudwara has now become an easily recognizable landmark in the city.

Local members hope that the tragedy in suburban Milwaukee will give them a chance to educate their neighbors about the Sikh faith while paying honor to those that were lost.

Sikhs in Afghanistan continue to face problems, with the issue of the Sikh custom of cremation figuring prominently. City development also threatens to destroy the Gurudwara Karte Parwan and adjoining shrine to Guru Nanak.

As is quite common with religion and its many different incarnations, to the unaccustomed, practices seem odd, foreign and well... just different.

The world is filled with problems and people to fix them. But linking the afflicted with those that can solve their problem has never been easy. One local team of techies may have the answer.

The people of El Cerrito refused to let his legacy die. This beloved holiday tradition can go on for hundreds of years. Or it can go away tomorrow, and after a generation nobody will remember. It's up to you, El Cerritans.

UNITED SIKHS wins $250K Grant in the Chase Community Giving Contest on Facebook. UNITED SIKHS extends sincere gratitude and appreciation to our supporters who voted for us and our volunteers who worked tirelessly to make this campaign an overwhelming success.

We look around us very…emotionally disconnected. We have experienced the same fears, and pains as those in our community yet we are never there to offer a supportive word, a supportive action, then we wonder why or how we are such a fragmented society. Sikhs of the past did this not only for their own, but for others, they would put their life on the line to save someone else

Almost three decades later, things have changed considerably. Setting the stage, the address began with the rich history of Punjab and Sikhs which goes back thousands of years with great wars, beautiful arts, great cultural developments, phenomenal agriculture, charming poetry, and new religious heritage for which Sikhs are known.

Last week, Sikh men in Southall stood defending a mosque whilst Muslims prayed. We see a clear example of multiculturalism and community cohesion at work; two different communities working together as part of the same community to achieve a common goal.

In the wake of a bloody fight at a South Richmond Hill temple last week, Sikhs are working to educate police and others on a community they say is peace loving and mortified by the clash between individuals wielding swords and cricket bats. “The whole community was walking around with their heads down, ashamed,” said Gurpal Singh.

SikhRI’s BC coordinator Kirpa Kaur said that she felt the way the events were carried off was monumental for the local community. “These events felt like they were a long time coming, and we are so happy to have created the programming to educate not only non-Sikhs, but Sikhs as well, on the significance of Vaisakhi,”..

The luncheon is a an annual inter-cultural event that invites the larger community to come learn more about the Sikh faith and participate in Vaisakhi celebrations, said Satwinder Bains, director at the Centre for Indo-Canadian Studies at the University of the Fraser Valley.

Bhai Sahib Joe Mahinder Singh Ji, Malaysia's premier Video-man and Community Policeman and SEWAK in the spirit of Bhai Kanhaiya Ji's tradition was awarded the Prime Ministers Award for COMMUNITY POLICING by the State of Selangor, Malaysia. This is a FIRST for a SIKH

SikhLEAD is a multifaceted initiative consisting of several programs that will be offered annually to aspiring Sikh youth. The Congressional Internship Program (CIP) is the first effort in this series of programs. In its inaugural session, SALDEF’s CIP will select exceptional Sikh students to intern this summer with a member of Congress in Washington, DC.

Sunday January 30th event will be held at the COVINGTON LIBRARY, 27100 164th Avenue SE, Covington, WA 98042

Over the course of 12 days spanning the end of 2010 and the beginning of 2011, SikhRI managed to facilitate a whirlwind tour of 23 events, presentations, divans and community dialogues in Australia.

Today I had a most remarkable experience. I spent a whole day with two groups of people I had not ever spent time with, nor had ever particularly thought about spending time with. These two groups were the Armed Forces and the Sikh community.

"Tear down the mosque and temple too, break all that divides, but do not break the human heart, as it is there that God resides." -- Shaykh Bulleh Shah

The element on my mind the most right now is - "outsidership." An uncertainty about how to enter in. I just recently began wearing the kara, and even that makes me feel so vulnerable...

Previously Langar Chile served meals to the homeless one day a week, but now volunteers are cooking and serving about 400 meals a day for families left homeless by the last earthquake on February 27, 2010.