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Article: NATION IN BRIEF
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 3, 2008
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Practitioners of the Sikh religion will not attend an interfaith
meeting with Pope Benedict XVI in Washington next month, after the
Secret Service told them that they would have to remove ceremonial
daggers required by their faith.
Representatives from the World Sikh Council-America Region were
invited to meet with Benedict and members of other faiths at the
Pope John Paul II Cultural Center on April 17. Sikhs constitute the
world's fifth-largest religion.
The Secret Service, asked by the U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops to provide security for the pope's visit, told the council
that, because of security concerns, the Sikhs would have to leave
behind their daggers, or kirpaans. The ...
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