Browsing Tag: Netherlands

“I’m not proud of being an alcoholic, but I am proud to have a job again,” said Mr. Schiphorst, the grateful beneficiary of an unusual government-funded program to lure alcoholics off the streets by paying them in beer to pick up trash.

Prabhjot Kaur Gumber is a young Sikh woman living in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, who has made it to the finals of the Dutch "Student of the Year" election. Please give her your vote!

Flowers were laid by the newly installed King of the Netherlands Mr. Willem Alexander and the Queen Maxima, Army Generals, Prime Minister Mr. Mark Rutte and his whole Cabinet of Ministers, Mayor of Amsterdam and many other prominent leaders of the Netherlands. Over 25,000 people participated in the ceremony.

The Guru instructed us before he passed away to follow Guru Granth and Guru Panth. I have been trying to practice this in my daily life since 1996.

My Guru is the Guru Granth Sahib, not the Námdhari satguru, not the yogi who called himself the leader of the Sikhs in the western hemisphere, not the Soho Road (Birmingham) spiritual leader of the Sikhs in the UK, nor any other self-appointed holy man, pardhan or jathedar - I am a Sikh

Like every year, on November 11 on the Armistice Day, about 300 Sikhs throughout Europe paid a visit to Ieper - Belgium and laid flowers at the Menen Gate the National Monument of Belgium and later at Hollebeke where Sikhs fought for the first time against Germany in October 1914.

Freedom of religion and the prohibition of discrimination based among others on religion have been laid down in section 1, respectively section 6 of the Constitution and in various treaties on human rights. The Awgb goes further into the details.

The Dutch parliament voted on Tuesday to ban ritual slaughter of animals, a move strongly opposed by the country’s Muslim and Jewish minorities, but left a loophole that might let religious butchering continue. The bill by the small Animal Rights Party, the first such group in Europe to win seats in a national parliament, passed the lower house of parliament by 116 votes to 30.

A Gatka and Gurmat camp was held on 26-27 July 2008 at Sri Guru Nanak Gurudwara in Rotterdam.