Tarunjit Singh Butalia

Jun 3, 2024 | religionnews.com | Tarunjit Singh Butalia |Rizki Fauzi

(RNS) — This week is the 40th anniversary of the Indian army’s heinous attack with tanks, artillery, missiles, helicopters and paramilitary forces on the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar, India, and more than 40 other Sikh shrines throughout the Punjab region.

Dec 1, 2023 | religionnews.com | Tarunjit Singh Butalia |Rizki Fauzi

(RNS) — I am a Sikh activist committed to peace, justice and reconciliation who has lived in the United States since 1989 and actively worked on interfaith engagement for over three decades. Never before have I felt as in danger here as I do now. In October 1984, five years before I came to the United States from India, an American of Taiwanese descent, Henry Liu, was gunned down outside his home in California by two men. Mr. Liu had published a biography critical of the then-Taiwanese president.

Oct 27, 2023 | religionnews.com | Tarunjit Singh Butalia |Rizki Fauzi

(RNS) — It was August of 2006. I was at the annual World Assembly of Religions for Peace in Kyoto, Japan, on the theme of “Confronting Violence and Advancing Shared Security.” At the closing ceremony, the chief rabbi of Israel spoke about the contemporary suffering of the Jewish community in Israel. Still, in his remarks, he did not recognize the pain of the Muslim and Christian Palestinians.

Sep 26, 2023 | religionnews.com | Tarunjit Singh Butalia

(RNS) — Last week Justin Trudeau, the prime minister of Canada, told the country’s Parliament that his government had “credible reasons” to believe that agents of the Indian government may have killed a Sikh Canadian citizen, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, on Canadian soil. Canada has since said that both human intelligence and signals intelligence link Indian diplomats in Canada to the murder.

Sep 26, 2023 | flipboard.com | Tarunjit Singh Butalia

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