Article: NATION IN BRIEF

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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