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Sikh Temple Fire: A Case of Arson
Investigators say the fire that destroyed a Sikh temple in Reno Monday night may have been set to cover up another crime. For it's members loss of the building itself is only the beginning. Fire engulfed the cinder block structure late Monday night leaving an empty shell. Investigators believe burglars broke into the temple and a nearby home then
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Religious Hate Crimes On the Rise in the United States
Washington, D.C. – The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced on Friday that two religious hate crime incidents in Tennessee and Alabama were moving to resolution. In Mobile, Alabama, Christian Rodney Ice pled guilty to covering a Jewish synagogue with anti-Semitic messages in support of Hitler.
Overnight fire guts Sacramento Sikh temple
SACRAMENTO, CA – All day long, members of a Sikh congregation have come to see the burned remains of their temple on Power Inn and Rangeview roads in south Sacramento. Sulakhan Singh, one of the members, learned late Thursday flames erupted in the temple, setting off a fire alarm. "Everything's
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63 die, dozens injured in Indian temple stampede
LUCKNOW, India – A stampede broke out in at a temple in northern India as thousands of people jostled each other to get free clothes and utensils being distributed during a religious ceremony, leaving at least 63 people dead and dozens more injured, officials said. The crush of people also knocked
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Malaysian youth held for threatening to vandalise Hindu shrine
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian police have nabbed a youth who posted on a website that he was ready to vandalise a Hindu shrine at Batu Caves near here. The youth, who claimed to have prepared crude bombs that were hurled at some churches last week, was held and his "seditious" postings removed after
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Ceres Buddhist temple fire claims life of monk
CERES — A 52-year-old man died Friday after he inhaled smoke as he was trying to put out an accidental electrical fire at the Buddhist temple just east of Ceres Christian Church, fire officials said. The man was critically injured and taken by ambulance to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead,
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Buddhist temple burns in Fort Worth
FORT WORTH — Fire heavily damaged a Buddhist temple in northwest Fort Worth late Monday night. The two monks who live at the Wat Lao Thepnimith complex at 7129 Marvin Brown Street said they heard a noise outside around 11:30 p.m. When they went outside, they found fire coming through the roof of
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Pig’s head hung on defaced French mosque
STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) – A mosque in eastern France was sprayed with racist graffiti and defaced with pieces of pork overnight, a public prosecutor said on Wednesday. The mosque in town of Toul was daubed with inscriptions saying "France for the French", "Here it’s Nazi"
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Vandalized West Kendall mosque reaches out to other faiths
First it was a spray-painted swastika on a sign out front. Then bricks through the windows. Then a shower of 51 bullets. Now, after a tire-slashing and more broken windows — this time by teens who told police they think ”all Muslims are terrorists” — how can members of a mosque
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Gasoline found at mosque site in Arlington spurs fears
ARLINGTON – Vandalism at construction sites is fairly common; but when a crescent moon sits atop the site, any incident can be viewed through the prism of fear. Mouffa Nahhas is president of the mosque being built at Cooper Street and the Road to Six Flags in north Arlington. He was called to the
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At least 11 wounded in fight in Vienna temple
VIENNA – Worshippers of Indian origin armed with knives and at least one gun fought one another in a temple in the Austrian capital on Sunday, and at least 11 were wounded, police and ambulance staff said. Police spokesman Michael Takacs said the brawl occurred in Sikh temple, but Mohnder Ram,
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