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    2. Hindu deity on mural sparks Ten Commandments request

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      ABINGDON, Va. - A painting in the Barter Theater in has sparked emotions with a lot of people in Washington County, Virginia; now, the Ten Commandments will be displayed in the county's Government Center as well.

      We learned the painting given to the Barter Theater features a depiction of Shiva, a Hindu deity.

      "My question was if a Hindu god can be displayed, why can Christians not have the Ten ...

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    3. Sridhar Silberfein’s long, strange trip from N.Y. Jew to Hindu honcho

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      JOSHUA TREE, Calif. (JTA) — In 1968, only six years after founding the AEPi chapter at his Long Island University campus, Steven Silberfein took one of the thousand names of the Hindu god Vishnu and became Sridhar Silberfein.

      A year later, the one-time Jewish fraternity brother escorted the Hindu teacher Swami Satchidananda to the stage at Woodstock to deliver an invocation in front of 500,000 flower children.

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    4. Temples vandalised, Hindus under siege in Bengal

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      Amidst tensions over attempts to encroach land belonging to a temple in Balagarh, Hooghly, West Bengal, prohibitory orders under Section 144 have been imposed, even as the mainstream media abides by an informal diktat to black out the news. Aggrieved Hindus say the trouble arose when members of one community sought to extend a nearby graveyard into the temple space, and attacked the temple deities, triggering violence. The administration, in ...

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    5. Kashmiri Pandits mulling to take up their issues with other countries

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      Jammu: Expressing concern over the Centre's alleged apathy towards Kashmiri Pandits, an organisation representing the community on Thursday said they will raise their concerns with other countries.  "We are planning to take up our issues with different countries through their embassies in the Union capital," chairman of the Voice of KPs, Roshan Lal Raina, told reporters here today.

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    6. U.S. immigration trends show increasing numbers of Muslims, Hindus

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      A Pew Research Center survey of Asian Americans in 2012, combined with U.S. Census data, suggests that the number of Hindus in the United States also has been increasing in large part due to rising immigration over the past two decades.

      The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life looked primarily at legal immigration.

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    7. More Hindus migrating to the US than ever: Study

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      WASHINGTON: The number of Hindus migrating to the US every year has more than doubled in the last one decade, with an overwhelming majority of them coming from India, a new study released today said. An average of about 30,000 Hindus were admitted each year in the 1990s, by contrast, the US admitted an estimated 70,000 Hindu immigrants in 2012, the prestigious Pew Research Center said in its ...

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    9. Britain Releases 2011 Census Data On Religious Affiliation and Characteristics of Population By Religion

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      Last week, Britain's Office for National Statistics released new data from the 2011 census on religious affiliation for residents of England and Wales. The data on numbers and median age shows 33.2 million Christians, 14 million with no religion, 2.7 million Muslims, 817 thousand Hindus, 423 thousand Sikhs, 263 thousand Jews, and 248 thousand Buddhists. Other tables show religion by ethnicity, religion by country of birth, and ...
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    10. VIEW: The Balochistan Hindus’ dilemma —Muhammad Akbar Notezai

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       Hindus have been richly contributing in Balochistan’s economic prosperity and development since pre-partition days

      In Balochistan, Hindus are also complainants about the mainstream media that their sufferings hardly and rarely get discussed. That is why they rely on private TV channels to bring to light their sufferings, because people at national and international level have very little information about them.

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    11. Amend law to include Sikhs, Hindus in hate crime victims: US to FBI

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      Meeting one of the long pending demands of Sikhs and Hindus in the US, Attorney General Eric Holder has recommended widening the FBI's mandate to include the two communities among victims of growing hate crimes. Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday, Holder said he made this recommendation to the Advisory Policy Board of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to make the necessary changes in the Uniform Crime Reporting ...

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    12. Film Review: “Not A Feather, But A Dot” Exposes A Potpourri Of Indian American Stereotypes

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      Most members of the American public, including business and political leaders, lack knowledge about Hinduism. For example, the documentary interviewed Sheetal Shah of the Hindu American Foundation, a Washington-based advocacy group, who shared how a Congressman asked whether she was a “Hindu Shi’ite” or “Hindu Sunni.”

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    14. Islamo-Fascists In Bangladesh – Whose Side Are You On?

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      April 20, 2013: “Despite High Court directives to the government to protect religious minorities and their places of worships, criminals continue their attacks on minorities across the country. In the latest such crimes, a group of criminals torched a 200-year-old Hindu temple in Rajoir upazila of Madaripur (on April 19)… at least 94 attacks were carried out in March (2013) on minorities, mainly on the Hindus. In total, 187 houses ...

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    17. US Justice Dept supports Sikhs, Hindus as hate crime victims

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      Washington: Meeting one of the long pending demands of Sikhs and Hindus in the US, Attorney General Eric Holder has recommended widening the FBI's mandate to include the two communities among victims of growing hate crimes. Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday, Holder said he made this recommendation to the Advisory Policy Board of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to make the necessary changes in the Uniform Crime ...

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    20. Hindus with ‘Kumbhs’ to parade through Britain

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      London: Hundreds of Hindus carrying ornate pots or Kumbhs will parade through major British cities like London, Manchester, Leicester and Dudley over the next three weeks as part of a unique and colourful pilgrimage symbolising their commitment to protect the environment. The "Green Kumbh Yatra" is an international initiative featuring a central "sacred" metal 'kumbh' that is being carried across numerous countries to promote the importance of environmental and biodiversity ...

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    21. Think of yoga as Hinduism's gift to humanity

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      Enter the Hindu American Foundation, which has taken umbrage at this recasting. It started the Take Back Yoga campaign in 2010 to educate people about yoga’s inextricable link to Hinduism. Their aim is not to establish proprietorship but to ask for respect. In effect, they say: Practice yoga for whatever reason or benefit, but acknowledge and honor its Hindu origins.

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    22. Hearing them out: Christians, Parsis stay away as Sikhs, Hindus cast votes

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      In contrast, Hindus and Sikhs of Ranchore Line are excited about political revelry and festivities. At Narayanpura, people could be seen sitting near a political camp that blared out songs, cheered on by applauding young men.

      A tour of the locality showed that despite overflowing potholes and heaps of garbage lying in the open, people remained loyal to their party. Mangan Chohan, an elderly resident, said that they would vote ...

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