Author: Sherri Buri McDonald

Source: The Register-Guard

http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/24501955-41/sikh-community-golden-temple-roberts.csp

A legal dispute between two factions of the Sikh community founded by Yogi Bhajan recently reached a partial settlement, clearing the way for the sale of Golden Temple’s cereal business.

But a bigger...

Author: Anto Akkara

Source: Episcopal Life Online/Ecumenical News International

http://www.episcopal-life.org/81808_119963_ENG_HTM.htm

Christian groups in Pakistan and India have joined political and other religious leaders in deploring the recent beheading of two young Sikh men by a Taliban group in Pakistan, and have demanded security for religious minorities in the Muslim-majority nation.

"We condemn this diabolic act," said Victor...

Author: Scott Tracey

Source: Guelph Mercury

http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/article/604311

City councillors on Monday night heard more than a dozen delegations arguing for and against a proposed Sikh temple in the south end.

Mayor Karen Farbridge set the tone for the meeting, warning at the beginning there would be “zero tolerance” for racially-motivated language which has at times found its way into the debate since the...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The News

http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=226543

The Hindu and Sikh communities celebrated ‘Holi’ — a festival of colours — to welcome spring here on Sunday. 

A large number of Hindu and Sikh families were seen throwing colours on one another to celebrate the festival. All-Pakistan Hindu and Sikh Social Welfare Council Vice President Saroop Anand told ‘The News...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Kent News

http://www.kentnews.co.uk/kent-news/Exhibition-to-celebrate-Kent_s-Sikh-history-newsinkent33250.aspx?news=local

About 50 years ago the first Sikh immigrants arrived in Kent after travelling from their homes on the subcontinent to find work – some of them with just a change of clothes in their suitcase.

Arriving from India, Pakistan...

Author: Vik Kirsch

Source: Guelph Mercury

http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/Local/article/603604

Neighbours of Sikh temples in Brantford and Kitchener are surprised at vociferous opposition to a place of worship proposed for the Royal City’s growing south side.

“That’s a shame. It really is,” said Linda...

Author: Callum Brodie

Source: Slough...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Indian Express

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/sikhs-in-pak-insecure-uncertain-about-future/585088/

“There is tremendous sense of insecurity among the Sikhs in Pakistan after the beheading by Taliban,” said a Sikh Jatha member who returned from Pakistan on Friday. “Many Sikhs have taken shelter in Gurdwaras after fleeing the areas under Taliban control and trouble-...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: PRNewswire-USNewswire

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/coalition-files-lawsuit-against-lexus-dealership-for-refusing-to-hire-sikh-85478222.html

A Sikh filed a discrimination lawsuit today after being told to remove his religiously-mandated beard if he wanted a job. The Sikh, Gurpreet Singh Kherha, filed his lawsuit in New Jersey...

Author: Dil Neiyyar

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8535141.stm

The UK Sikh Federation says it might take legal action over the Office for National Statistics' 2011 census form.

It says the ONS is breaking the law by putting a box for Sikhs to tick in the voluntary religion section of the form but not one in the ethnicity section.

It fears this will result in the number of Sikhs being underestimated and mean community...

Author: Joanne Shuttleworth

Source: The Guelph Mercury

http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/Local/article/601721

The faith community is rallying around the Guelph Sikh Society as it faces backlash to its proposal to build a Sikh temple in Guelph’s south end.

Eleven United Church ministers have written a letter supporting the Sikh community and chastising those whose opposition to the temple is racially motivated.

“I...

Author: Kie Relyea

Source: The News Tribune/The Bellingham Herald

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/02/23/1081681/sikhs-file-application-to-build.html

Members of Gurdwara Gurnanak Parkash are filing for a building permit to construct a 10,216-square-foot worship center at the temple's current location on West Smith Road.

The Sikh temple has upward of 50 members and has been at its current home since 2000....

Author: Dawinder S. Sidhu

Source: Supreme Court of the United States Blog

http://www.scotusblog.com/2010/02/civil-rights-and-the-wartime-supreme-court/

The following essay was written for our Race and the Supreme Court event by Dawinder S. Sidhu, a founding director of the Discrimination and National Security Initiative at Harvard University.  Mr. Sidhu’s work focuses on discrimination against Muslim-...

Author: Joanne Shuttleworth

Source: The Guelph Mercury

http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/article/600861

To Christians, the service of worship at the Sikh temple on Stevenson Street could seem a mystery. All the speaking, after all, is in Punjabi, the hymns are more like chants than lyrical songs, and everyone’s head must be covered, either by a veil, a turban or a head scarf provided for those who don’t have their own.

But its...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: KNDO/KNDU

http://www.kndo.com/Global/story.asp?S=12015275

A group of people who practice the Sikh religion are hoping to turn a house on Court Street in Pasco into a temple soon.

They have applied for a special use permit from the city planning commission.

Leaders say there are about 25 to 30 members in the Tri-Cities area. For the last five years they've been meeting at each others homes, but hope to soon...