A 12-year-old Hindu soccer player of Indian origin Shubh Patel was sent off the field for wearing a religious necklace made of basil wood beads (kanthi mala).
The Toowong club member told Channel Seven News that it is against Hinduism to remove the beads necklace. [...]
Three of the world‘s top religious leaders – Pope Francis of the Vatican, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Grand Imam of Al Azhar Dr Mahmoud Azab have joined hands in the biggest ever push to eradicate modern day slavery and human trafficking in India by 2020. On the surface this may look laudable. But [...]
March 24, 2014
Ranbir Singh
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