sikhism
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Sikhism
The name of the religion means learner. Sikhism teaches a message of devotion and remembrance of God, truthful living and fairness to mankind. The founder was Guru Nanak, the first leader of Sikhism. It is open to everyone to practice through it's teachings of the ten Gurus. Sikhism also has just one God. This religion was founded almost five -hundred years ago, making it a quite a young religion. However, even thought it is still young, over twenty million people around the world practice the religion. Most Sikh's (people who follow Sikhism religion) are found in India and live in Punjab. Close to five hundred thousand live in North America, one hundred and fifty thousand of them in Canada.
The Sikhism religion, through the years has had ten major leaders called Guru's, ruling from 1469 and dieing1708...