{"id":15465,"date":"2017-04-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/04\/07\/swiss-hindus-create-a-united-voice\/"},"modified":"2017-04-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T12:00:00","slug":"swiss-hindus-create-a-united-voice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2017\/04\/07\/swiss-hindus-create-a-united-voice\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Hindus Create a United Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kath.ch\/newsd\/schweizer-hindus-treten-mit-vereinter-stimme-auf\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WINTERTHUR, SWITZERLAND, April 4, 2017 (kath.ch): There are 50,000 Hindus in Switzerland. Until recently they had no common voice. On April 2nd, however, various organizations have joined forces to form the &#8220;Schweizerischen Dachverband fuer Hinduismus&#8221; &#8211; the Swiss Hindu Association. With the Swiss Hindu Association the various groups and communities have &#8220;a unified, equitable and official place in multi-religious Switzerland&#8221; &#8211; and &#8220;finally a common voice,&#8221; according to the press release of the new umbrella organization on April 4th.<\/p>\n<p>This is intended to strengthen the cooperation among the various Hindu communities, as Krishna Premar pa Dasa told kath.ch. &#8220;We also wish that we could make Hinduism more visible to the public.&#8221; Inter-religious dialogue can only take place if this religion &#8220;becomes more comprehensible and accessible to outsiders,&#8221; continued Premar pa Dasa. To this end, the umbrella organization would organize events, create a website and publish publications.<\/p>\n<p>According to Premar pa Dasa, Hinduism in Switzerland is diverse. There are Tamil Hindus from Sri Lanka, Hindus from India and Nepal and Hindus with Swiss roots. &#8220;It was only when we realized that several organizations and representatives had a common goal that contact between us was established,&#8221; said Premar pa Dasa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source WINTERTHUR, SWITZERLAND, April 4, 2017 (kath.ch): There are 50,000 Hindus in Switzerland. Until recently they had no common voice.,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}