For the 30 to 40 Hindus in each undergraduate class, the closest place to gather to pray was an hour’s drive away — until Monday night. Now, to participate in Hindu group prayer, all students have to ...

BISMARCK — A handful of North Dakota Republican lawmakers abstained from a Hindu prayer that opened the House's floor session Tuesday, April 2, with one legislator describing his actions as a form of ...

A Hindu clergyman made history Thursday by offering the U.S. Senate's morning prayer, but only after police officers removed three shouting protesters from the visitors' gallery. Rajan Zed, director ...

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL)- The president of the Universal Society of Hinduism, Rajan Zed, read a Hindu prayer as the invocation for the Johnson City Commission meeting on Thursday. According to an ...

Reno Hindu statesman Rajan Zed was in Washington, D.C., today to open the U.S. House of Representatives at noon with a prayer as guest chaplain. This is Zed’s second presentation in Congress, having ...

BOISE (CN) - Three Idaho lawmakers boycotted the state Senate's daily invocation Tuesday because it was given by a Hindu, which one senator called "a false faith with false gods." Steve Vick of Dalton ...

Parliamentarian prattle and stilted deliberations usually mark the language of lawmakers in Olympia. But Friday, ancient Sanskrit mantras filled the chamber when a Hindu prayer was recited for what is ...

BISMARCK — North Dakota senators heard a Hindu prayer to open the legislative floor session Monday, April 1. Rajan Zed, president of the Universal Society of Hinduism based in Reno, Nev., gave the ...

BOISE – A North Idaho senator is objecting to allowing a Hindu prayer as the opening invocation for the Idaho Senate on Tuesday morning, and says he’ll walk out. Sen. Steve Vick, R-Dalton Gardens, ...

STOCKTON - Hinduism is the oldest and third-largest religion in the world. And Stockton, founded during the Gold Rush era in 1949, is one of California's oldest cities. But before tonight, they were ...

BOISE – A North Idaho senator is objecting to allowing a Hindu prayer as the opening invocation for the Idaho Senate this morning and says he’ll walk out. “They have a caste system,” explained state ...

For the first time since the Colorado Senate first convened in 1861, legislators began their day with heads bowed for prayer in Sanskrit. It began with “OM,” the mystical syllable containing the ...