Many students are interested in the idea of having a Hindu prayer space on campus, according to Rishika Dewan ’16. Dewan spearheaded an initiative withPrinceton Hindu Satsangam to send out a survey ...
For the 30 to 40 Hindus in each undergraduate class, the closest place to gather to pray was an hour’s drive away — until Monday night. Now, to participate in Hindu group prayer, all students have to ...
A Hindu clergyman made history Thursday by offering the U.S. Senate's morning prayer, but only after police officers removed three shouting protesters from the visitors' gallery. Rajan Zed, director ...
Reno Hindu statesman Rajan Zed was in Washington, D.C., today to open the U.S. House of Representatives at noon with a prayer as guest chaplain. This is Zed’s second presentation in Congress, having ...
RENO -- British government officials said they see no chance that a Hindu chaplain from Nevada will be allowed to read the opening prayer in the House of Commons. In denying the request by Rajan Zed ...
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL)- The president of the Universal Society of Hinduism, Rajan Zed, read a Hindu prayer as the invocation for the Johnson City Commission meeting on Thursday. According to an ...
BOISE – A North Idaho senator is objecting to allowing a Hindu prayer as the opening invocation for the Idaho Senate this morning and says he’ll walk out. “They have a caste system,” explained state ...
WASHINGTON -- Before a Reno clergyman delivered the first Hindu prayer in the history of the U.S. Senate, Capitol Hill police on Thursday removed three people protesting from the visitors gallery. The ...
BISMARCK — A handful of North Dakota Republican lawmakers abstained from a Hindu prayer that opened the House's floor session Tuesday, April 2, with one legislator describing his actions as a form of ...
Parliamentarian prattle and stilted deliberations usually mark the language of lawmakers in Olympia. But Friday, ancient Sanskrit mantras filled the chamber when a Hindu prayer was recited for what is ...
BOISE – A North Idaho senator is objecting to allowing a Hindu prayer as the opening invocation for the Idaho Senate on Tuesday morning, and says he’ll walk out. Sen. Steve Vick, R-Dalton Gardens, ...