www.dnaindia.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 7, 2009: Hindu organizations will soon launch a unique rath yatra to pressure the Indian government to impose a complete ban on cow slaughter. Announcing this at a press conference here on Tuesday, Jagadguru Swami Raghaveshwar Bharati, the Shankaracharya of Gokarna Pitha, Karnataka, said efforts should be made to declare cow a national animal and…
Religion News Service CALIFORNIA, USA, January 5, 2009: [HPI note: This is important news for any religious institution in the U.S. about property rights. Under U.S. law, the term “church” can be given to any properly established religious group, so Hindu institutions can qualify as churches, receiving special legal protection and benefits.] The Episcopal Church claimed a major legal victory…
www.hinduismtoday.com No emphatic statement can be made about Hinduism that cannot be contradicted; it truly is a religion of opposite and complementary forces that embraces an extraordinary diversity. Stephen Huyler, from his book, Meeting God: Elements of Hindu Devotion
www.tribuneindia.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, January 8, 2009: Bending down before the mounting pressure, Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Wednesday scrapped the appointment of new priests at the revered Pashupatinath Temple. Addressing the Legislature-Parliament session that resumed after three weeks, Prime Minister and CPN (Maoist) chairman Dahal said the priests’ appointment issue at Pashupatinath had aroused waves in “Nepal as…
www.amherstbulletin.com NORTHAMPTON, USA, January 2, 2009: Students at the Lander Grinspoon Academy in Northampton are mixing their Torah with yoga these days. The monthly “Torah yoga” class, taught by yoga instructor Amy Reed and religious educator Judi Wisch, explores Jewish concepts through classic yoga poses, prayer, passages from the Old Testament and themes from the Jewish calendar. In the third…
www.hinduismtoday.com One who is established in a comfortable posture while concentrating on the inner Self naturally becomes immersed in the Heart’s ocean of bliss. Siva Sutras III, 16
www.hindu.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, January 6, 2009: University students angry at the government’s intention of appointing the head priests at Nepal’s most revered Hindu temple blocked traffic and threw bricks at cars in Katmandu today. The nearly 200 students were demanding the government, led by the country’s former communist rebels, withdraw the two priests named last week to lead Pashupatinath temple…
HPI Correspondent India/South Asia NEW DELHI, INDIA, January 4, 2009th, 2009 (By Rajiv Malik): The chief aim of RSS as enumerated by its founder, Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, was to unite the Hindu society. Even after eighty years of its existence, its leaders say this aim and focus has not changed. “In all these decades what Sangh has done is…
news.bbc.co.uk KILINOCHCHI, SRI LANKA, January 6, 2009: Two days after the fall of Kilinochchi, the town that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had used as their de facto capital was firmly under military control. The Peace Secretariat, where the Tigers met visiting diplomats and journalists during the failed 2002 ceasefire, was a shell. The windows and furniture had…
HPI KAUAI, HAWAII, January 6, 2008: As biofuel companies search for substitutes to food crops, such as corn and soybeans, to make renewable alternatives to petroleum-based fuels, some are turning to chicken, pork and beef fat to make these “ßreen”†fuels. Hinduism Today is investigating the use these animal fats to produce biodiesel for a coming article in the magazine. Sourced…