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| April 29, 2010 | Australia's Victoria Legislative Assembly denies Hindu opening prayer request | |
Nevada (US):A Hindu leader has been denied the request to read the opening prayer of Victoria Legislative Assembly of Australia. Assembly
Speaker Jennifer Lindell, in a response to the request of Rajan Zed, president
of Universal Society of Hinduism, said in a communiqué: "It has been a long standing
tradition for the Speaker to read the Lord's Prayer prior to the start of the
proceedings of the day. The motion that the Speaker read the Lord's Prayer was
made by a resolution of the House on 9 October 1928. Since then no other person
has read the prayer in the Victorian Parliament..." "Lord's Prayer" is a well-known
prayer in Christianity. Legislative Assembly, created in 1855, is the Lower House
of the Victorian Parliament and consists of 88 members. Victoria is the most densely
populated state of Australia. |
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