US a nation of Christian, Muslims, Jews, Hindus: Obama

October 1st, 2009 Hindus and Jews have asked for thorough enquiry into the reportedly last minute withdrawal of the permission by officials to celebrate Durgapuja festival in a public park in Rome (Italy). Rajan Zed, acclaimed Hindu statesman; and Rabbi Jonathan B.

September 27th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - "God is one" said Sheikh Jannat Hossain, the secretary of a Durga Puja committee in an Orissa town, as he along with many other Muslims and Christians joined in the Durga Puja celebrations, a year after the parts of the state were torn apart by communal discord. Muslims and Christians helped Hindus in raising funds, sat with them for prayers and lent a hand in decorating puja pandals (marquees) in many parts of the state.

July 23rd, 2009 Hindus urged US President Barack Obama to put a Hindu temple also on his list, if possible, in case he decided to attend a number of different churches in rotation. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that President Obama was most welcome to visit any Hindu temple he selected in/around Washington DC.

July 7th, 2009 NEVADA - Hindus urged US President Barack Obama to put a Hindu temple also on his list, if possible, in case he decided to attend a number of different churches in rotation. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that President Obama was most welcome to visit any Hindu temple he selected in/around Washington DC.

June 5th, 2009 MADRID - US President Barack Obama made a factual mistake on Spanish history in his keynote speech to the Muslim world in Cairo, Spanish commentators pointed out Friday. Obama Thursday described Islam as having a tradition of tolerance, saying: "We see it in the history of Andalusia and Cordoba during the Inquisition." The president was referring to Moorish Spain, known as al-Andalus, where Muslims, Christians and Jews lived side by side.

May 29th, 2009 Hindus and Jews have asked Denmark to treat all major religions evenly in its “folkeskole”, the Danish municipal primary and lower secondary schools. “Christian studies” is a compulsory subject in folkeskole and according to “Act on the Folkeskole”, “The central knowledge area of the subject of Christian studies shall be Evangelical Lutheran Christianity of the Danish national Church.” Rajan Zed, acclaimed Hindu statesman; and Rabbi Jonathan B.

May 3rd, 2009 Concerned at the recent religion poll, Hindus have called Canada to organize a nationwide interfaith dialogue as a high-priority. In view of Maclean’s magazine’s recent poll "What Canadians think of Sikhs, Jews, Christians, Muslims.

May 3rd, 2009 Hindus and Jews have asked Queensland state of Australia to treat all major religions evenly. According to its Education Act, “Instruction…may be given in State primary and special schools during school hours in selected Bible lessons.” Rajan Zed, acclaimed Hindu statesman; and Rabbi Jonathan B.

April 23rd, 2009 Hindus and Jews have asked Norway to treat all major religions evenly while teaching religion in its schools. Rajan Zed, acclaimed Hindu statesman; and Rabbi Jonathan B.

January 20th, 2009 CHICAGO - Belying expectations of soaring phraseology, President Barack Obama's inaugural address was a resolute, robust and workmanlike repudiation of his predecessor's policies. Standing barely 15 feet away former President George Bush, Obama kept his tone equanimous but left no doubt in anybody's mind that he was unapologetically breaking free from the past eight years.

January 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Moments after becoming the first African American president, Barack Obama vowed to work with old friends and former foes drawing on the strength of the country's 'patchwork heritage' with its diverse faiths - Christians, Muslims, Jews and Hindus. 'With old friends and former foes, we will work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat, and roll back the spectre of a warming planet,' he said in his inaugural address after being sworn in shortly past noon.

January 19th, 2009 WASHINGTON - We will defeat you: that is new US President Barack Obama's message to 'those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror'. 'We will not apologise for our way of life, nor will we waver in its defence, and for those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents, we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken; you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you,' Obama said in his inauguration speech here Tuesday.

January 14th, 2009 PATNA - Muslims have joined hands with Hindus to lay the foundation of a new temple, dedicated to the sun god, in a Bihar town. The two communities got together to lay the foundation of a temple at Manikpur Bazar in Kurtha in Arwal district, about 80 km from the state capital.

December 29th, 2008 PATNA - A village in Bihar's Gaya district remained tense Tuesday, a day after a group of Hindus stopped Muslims from burying two of their dead due to a dispute over the graveyard land, police said. Muslims of Madhav Bigha village in Gaya, about 100 km from here, were angry after two of their dead were denied burial in the graveyard by some Hindus Monday.

December 25th, 2008 BHUBANESWAR - Christmas was celebrated with joy and gaiety in the Kandhamal district of Orissa, which witnessed communal violence recently, as Hindus joined Christians in the festivities. In the Christian dominated Brahmanigaon village, about 300 km from here, a large number of Hindus joined their Christian brethren in a candle-lit procession and cake cutting ceremony to mark the celebrations.