A luxury train will carry the devout and sightseers to four of the country’s five Sikh Takhts, with a flight to the fifth takht on the ninth day completing the circuit.
Asked to reflect on the few hours she and about 20 other visitors spent there Sunday, as part of the United Religious Community of St. Joseph County’s “Walks in Faith” program, Coleman said she was struck more by what the two denominations have in common.
For tirst time in more than two and half decades Chief of the Army Staff General Vijay Kumar Singh today along with his entire family members reached in the holy city to pay obeisance in the sanctum Sanctorum of Harmander Sahib.
Members of Vancouver's Sikh community gathered Sunday at the Ross Street Temple to applaud the announcement of federal funding for two projects commemorating the 1914 Komagata Maru incident in which 376 immigrants from the Punjab were refused entry to Canada.
He said: "Over the years more Europeans were attracted by the mansions and lifestyles they could get in the Punjab, and some British even deserted the East India Company."
What appears to have happened is the first deliberate misinformation campaign built around the WikiLeaks cables, something sure to happen again as the ever-swelling release of documents provides cover for those who have forged documents to peddle.
“For the hate crime enhancements to stick, the prosecutor must prove that there was no explanation other than pure anger at how this man looked,” said Veena Dubal, staff attorney at the Asian Law Caucus.
Senior rabbi Alexandra Wright told the audience, ..that Hanukkah was “rooted in a particularly difficult time in the Middle East both politically and religiously. In fact you might say that the situation out of which the festival of Hanukkah arose is not so different from the times we are living in today.”
The film courted controversy after Sikh groups protested a sequence in the film. Kapoor said the matter has been sorted out with Sikh community leaders, and a disclaimer has been added to the film's credit.
An Orthodox Jewish rabbi from Brooklyn sued the U.S. Army Wednesday for denying him a commission to serve as an Army chaplain because his faith prohibits him from shaving his beard.