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SRI LANKA, August 31, 2026 (Lanka Web): The Hindu fightback against Christian missionary incursions in Jaffna during the British colonial period was a sophisticated, peaceful resistance movement known as the Saivite (or Hindu) Revival. Unlike the brutal, forced conversions under the Portuguese and Dutch, the British colonial administration utilized an educational and economic monopoly. They enticed locals to convert by…

SRI LANKA, August 31, 2026 (Christian Daily): For decades, religious persecution in Sri Lanka was framed mainly as Sinhala-Buddhist nationalist campaigns against Christians and Muslims, but a growing body of research points to a less-examined front: Hindu nationalist or Hindutva-style movements among Sri Lankan Tamils in the northern and eastern provinces drawing ideological and organizational support from India’s Hindu right.…

BENGAL, INDIA, September 7, 2026 (YouTube.com): A small concrete Siva Temple on the banks of the Ganga has fallen into the river after prolonged erosion on the river bank beneath it. Devotees cried and chanted as they watched the temple disappear within a manner of minutes. Videos with different angles of the event: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/9/7/indian-temple-collapses-into-ganges-as-riverbank-erodes#flips-6404726692112:0https://www.youtube.com/shorts/y_zqTzxpNbAhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/FGHc1fCBy2A

PARIS, August 31, 2026 (Money Control News): Hundreds of Hindu devotees gathered in Paris on Sunday, August 30, to celebrate Ganesh Chaturthi with a traditional procession through the French capital, but videos from the event later sparked a fierce debate on immigration, integration and religious expression on social media. The annual festival was organized by the Sri Manicka Vinayakar Alayam…

UNITED STATES, September 1, 2026 (Korea Daily): An alarming 63% of English-language religion and faith paperbacks sold on Amazon may have been written using artificial intelligence, according to a recent analysis by AI detection platform Originality.ai. Examining 2,034 books across 14 religious categories with an average rating of 4 stars or higher during the first half of the year, researchers…

ITALY, July 28, 2025 (Cronache Maceratesi translated from Italial): Starting today, in Piazza San Marco, next to Camporotondo’s town hall, the statue of the Indian poet Maharishi Valmiki will not only be a point of reference for the Indian community living in the area, but also a symbol of integration and acceptance between Italian and Indian cultures. The inauguration ceremony…

UNITED STATES, April 30, 2026 (CoHNA by Pranav Shrivastava): Numbers. They’re everywhere. In your phone, your favorite video game, even in the rhythm of a song. But did you know that some of the most powerful ideas in math came from ancient India, from thinkers who lived thousands of years before calculators or computers? That blew my mind—and it changed…

UNITED STATES,, April 16, 2025 (Holocaust Encyclopedia): The word swastika comes from the Sanskrit svastika, which means “good fortune” or “well-being.” The motif (a hooked cross) appears to have first been used in Eurasia, as early as 7,000 years ago, perhaps representing the movement of the sun through the sky. To this day, it is a sacred symbol in Hinduism,…

NEPAL, August 26, 2026 (ndtv.com) Nepal was hit by a major tragedy on Wednesday morning when flash floods struck the Himalayan border region of the country. At least 22 people have died and over 400 are missing with a torrent of water sweeping away villages and project sites in the region bordering Tibet. Among those missing are 108 Indians who…

ITALY, July 31, 2026 (Lokkio.it, translated from Italian): The Italian Hindu Union, in collaboration with the Municipality of Savona and the ASYA Om Association, is pleased to present the *Mahābhārata*—the most expansive epic ever composed—in a fresh, youthful adaptation. Directed by Stefania Lo Russo with a script by Marco M. Pernich, the production will be staged on August 3, 2026,…