Nevada Religious Unity Day to have Hindu invocation

Bhadrapad Shuddha Dwadashi, Kaliyug Varsha 5112

From Our Correspondent

Nevada Religious Freedom and Unity Day event in Reno (Nevada, USA) on September 19 will have Hindu invocation.

After event coordinator Reverend Neal T. Anderson, Minister of Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Northern Nevada, launches the event at City Plaza, Hindu leader Rajan Zed will read from ancient Hindu scriptures Rig-Veda, Upanishads and Bhagavad-Gita (Song of the Lord).

Other participants include: Reverend Gene Savoy Junior (International Community of Christ), Rabbi Elizabeth Beyer (Jewish), Imam Abdulrahim Barghouthi (Muslim), Reverend Rich Smith (Congregational United Church of Christ), Reverend John Emerson (Methodist), Kendrah Fredricksen (Lutheran), Roya Galata (Baha’i), Shirley Diaz (University of Nevada-Reno), Iris West, etc. Prayers, speeches and music will form part of this event to honor religious freedom, unity and diversity.

According to Reverend Anderson, this gathering is a celebration of religious diversity and freedom, meant to combat religious discrimination. He plans to make it an annual event, to be held on second Sunday of September each year, to bring different faiths together on one platform.

Rajan Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, says that despite our seriously different beliefs, we should learn to live together in mutual trust and peace. Existence of different traditions is a sign of God’s bountifulness.

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