Word: hindus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Naturally, if they want peace, if they want joy, let them find Jesus. If people become better Hindus, better Muslims, better Buddhists by our acts of love, then there is something else growing there. They come closer and closer to God. When they come closer, they have to choose...
...With Hindus accounting for 83% of India's 833 million people, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi permitted the militants to lay the foundation stone for the new temple last week. The Hindu extremists are the vanguard of a growing movement led by the Bharatiya Janata Party. Its aim: to establish a Hindu Rashtra -- Hindu Nation...
...task he referred to was to put into practice a month-old peace accord that gives members of the Tamil minority substantial local governing powers in the parts of the country where they predominate. The Tamils, most of them Hindus, make up 12.5% of the island's 16.7 million inhabitants and are concentrated in its northern and eastern provinces. Since the pact was signed, separatist Tamil guerrillas have ended their war and have begun to lay down arms under the watchful eyes of 7,000 Indian peacekeeping troops...
Sinhalese distrust of India runs deep. Over two millenniums, Sri Lanka's Buddhist majority has fought back periodic invasions from Hindu India. Sri Lanka's Tamils are Hindus too, and the Sinhalese tend to regard them as India's natural allies. The current round of Tamil-Sinhalese conflict goes back to 1956, when the Sinhalese-dominated government made Sinhala the sole official language and restricted job and educational opportunities for minorities, effectively reducing the Tamils to second-class citizens...
Officials wavered over what to do with the immigrants, who had fled India alleging that the majority Hindus were discriminating against the Sikhs. Many Canadians had been outraged when the Tamils were allowed to remain and applauded a promise by Canada's Conservative government to pass legislation tightening admission requirements for refugees. The bill, however, has not been enacted, and last week's arrivals will be interviewed individually to determine if they are entitled to stay. Because Canadian law allows anyone who claims refugee status to live in the country until all appeals have been exhausted, Janice Hines' early-morning...