{"id":3518,"date":"2025-04-21T18:42:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T18:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/hindu-temple-vandalised-with-pro-khalistan-graffiti-in-canada\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T18:42:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T18:42:21","slug":"hindu-temple-vandalised-with-pro-khalistan-graffiti-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/hindu-temple-vandalised-with-pro-khalistan-graffiti-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Temple &#8220;Vandalised&#8221; With Pro-Khalistan Graffiti In Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"ignorediv\">\n                                        <!-- Story Text --><br \/>\n                                                                                <b class=\"place_cont\">Toronto: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>A temple in Canada&#8217;s Surrey has been defaced by vandals with pro-Khalistan graffiti at its entrance and the pillars, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place on April 19 at the Shree Lakshmi Narayana Mandir in Surrey, the temple said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><!--MIDTABOOLA--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is with deep sorrow that we inform the community of a disturbing incident that took place in the early hours of April 19, 2025, at approximately 3:00 AM. Two unidentified individuals vandalised the Shree Lakshmi Narayana Mandir in Surrey by defacing the entrance sign and the temple pillars with the word &#8216;Khalistan&#8217;, the statement said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WATCH?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WATCH<\/a> | Vancouver: On the reported vandalism in Lakshmi Mandir in Surrey by Khalistanis, Canadian Journalist Daniel Bordman says, &#8221; I saw when I got there that the vandalism had already been covered up, there were still some broken glasses&#8230;there were videos taken in the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Pkm8RXh5Pe\">pic.twitter.com\/Pkm8RXh5Pe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1914138695973912868?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, the security camera was stolen during this act.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We strongly condemn this hateful act of vandalism and theft, which is not only a crime but a direct attack on a sacred space that serves as a spiritual and cultural centre for many families, including elderly members and children,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An FIR has been officially registered with the Surrey Police, and we are cooperating fully with the authorities in their investigation,&#8221; the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We urge members of the public and leaders at all levels of government to join us in condemning this hate crime. Attacks on places of worship have no place in a respectful and diverse society of Canada,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>                                                                                <!-- Featured Video --><br \/>\n                                                                                                                        <!-- Recommended Widget -->\n                                                                                                                    <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto: A temple in Canada&#8217;s Surrey has been defaced by vandals with pro-Khalistan graffiti at its entrance and the pillars, authorities said. The incident took place on April 19 at the Shree Lakshmi Narayana Mandir in Surrey, the temple said in a statement. &#8220;It is with deep sorrow that we inform the community of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3518","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3520,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions\/3520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunnewsusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}