Category: Religion

CoHNA’s Canada Conclave Highlights Growing Hinduphobia in Canada

23rd August 2023 - CoHNA Canada hosted its inaugural community meet and greet event in Toronto on August 5, 2023, bringing representatives from various Hindu and allied organizations together. Close to 100 Hindu Canadians, students and allies from a cross…

How is this organization working towards reconciling science and religion?

2nd June 2023 – Anyone with basic school level science education must have heard of Albert Einstein’s ground-breaking ‘Theory of Relativity’. The theory essentially means that mass and energy are the same physical entity and can be changed into each…
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Racial slurs against Hindus have genocidal impact, says report

1st June 2023 – Hinduphobia has a long and tragic history in the North American continent. With growing internet technology, the hate against Hindus has increased multi-fold online. Memes mocking Hindu gods and goddesses, traditions, customs and beliefs have flooded…

Windsor Police searches for suspects in ‘hate attack’ on Hindu Temple

5th April 2023 – Last night, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Windsor, a city in southwestern Ontario, was attacked and its walls were defaced with anti-India slogans. The slogans read ‘Hindustan Murdabad’ (Death to India) and ‘Declare Modi Terrorist (BBC)’. Windsor…

Citizens gather in solidarity for ‘Washing Away the Hate’ campaign days after attack on Hindu temples

27th January 2023 - Last Friday evening, citizens from the Greater Toronto Area assembled at Ram Mandir Mississauga to show their solidarity with the Hindu temple after a hate attack which took place more than 10 days back. People were…

Canadian Hindu Temple in Mississauga defaced with anti-India graffiti

14th February 2023 – Another Canadian Hindu Temple has now been vandalized by unknown miscreants, this time in the City of Mississauga which is part of Region of Peel. Ram Mandir, a well known Hindu temple in the area of…

Battle to reclaim the ‘Swastika’ as pious symbol is on in Canada

1st February 2023 – For a common Canadian, it is taken for a fact that the Nazi symbol is called ‘Swastika’. For this person, the symbol connotes hatred, religious extremism and fascism. For this person, it is anti-Semite, anti-Jew and…

Brampton Hindu Temple defaced with anti-India slogans

30th January 2023 – Shri Gauri Shankar Mandir in Brampton Ontario has been vandalized by unknown assailants. On the outer walls of the temple, the attackers wrote “Khalistan Zindabad” and “Hindustan Murdabad”. Indian Consulate in Toronto was quick to raise…

Befitting response by Hindu group against Hinduphobic article in The Pointer

5th January 2023 – While the year might have changed, what has not changed is the growing Hinduphobia in Canada. On 16th December 2022, The Pointer published an article titled “‘Us Canadians are not a threat to you’: Are old…

CoHNA Canada Celebrates and Amplifies Canadian Hindu Heritage Month

19th December 2022 - The last month was a special one for Hindus in Canada. CoHNA celebrated the first federally recognized Hindu Heritage Month (HHM) in Canada. While (HHM) has been celebrated provincially in Ontario in the month of November…

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