On Vaisakhi, the Guru also gave Sikhs new last names. All women were given the name "Kaur," meaning "Princess," and men were given "Singh," meaning "Lion," Gill said.

It’s Sunday morning at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, in the Milwaukee suburb of Oak Creek, and hundreds of worshippers are showing up for prayers. They walk into the main hall where people are ...

To many Sikh Americans, the indictment — which alleged a brazen murder-for-hire plot against a Sikh separatist in New York — seemed to confirm suspicions that they had harbored for years about ...

Item 1 of 3 People hold placards protesting the killing of Canadian Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar at a demonstration outside the Golden Temple in Amritsar, in the northern state of ...

U.S. officials are investigating reports that dozens of Sikh asylum seekers had their turbans confiscated by Border Patrol agents in the Yuma, Ariz., area.

If he wanted the next generation of Sikhs to enjoy the music, he would need to be the one to teach it. Now 18 and living in Pasadena, he makes a a four-hour roundtrip drive weekly to teach 50 ...

A 66-year-old Sikh man was beaten to death in a Queens road-rage attack last week – and his family is calling for the alleged killer to face hate-crime charges. Jasmer Singh was driving his wife ...

Sikh temple makes 50,000 free meals for annual parade 00:22. NEW YORK -- Members of a Sikh temple in Richmond Hill, Queens, cooked all day Friday. They were preparing 50,000 vegetarian Indian meals.

NEW DELHI — The U.S. has charged an Indian national in what prosecutors allege was a failed plot to assassinate a Sikh separatist at the behest of an unnamed Indian government official.

A university has been forced to apologise after handcuffing a Sikh student for having a ceremonial knife. Police were called to the University of North Carolina in Charlotte and placed a student ...

A Sikh man is speaking out after he said he was denied entry to a Sacramento Kings game at Golden 1 Center for wearing his kirpan, a religious item. Mandeep Singh, a 37-year-old community ...

They are monotheistic. Sikhs believe in one god and believe in equality among sexes.Sikhism, which originated in northwest India, rejects the caste system and emphasizes service to humanity. The ...