www.thehindu.com PUDUKOTTAI, TAMIL NADU, INDIA, January 9, 2009: [HPI note: the Avudaiyar Koyil is a famed South Indian temple where Siva is worshipped as an immaterial lingam. Only the lingam’s base, or avudaiyar, exists in the sanctum]. A large number of devotees pulled the temple-car at Avudaiyarkovil, about 60 km from Pudukottai, on the occasion of “Thiruvathirai ther” festival on…
www.nytimes.com MEXICO CITY, January 20, 2009: (HPI note: Our founder, Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, often expressed concerned about the effect of violent toys on young people. You can read his thoughts at https://www.hinduismtoday.com/archives/1992/03/1992-03-06.shtml). Over the Christmas holidays, Othon Cuevas Cordova, a Mexican congressman, had his life threatened, albeit in jest. His young nephew pointed a toy pistol that he had received…
www.hinduismtoday.com Though many people use God as a spare wheel, we need God in each and every moment of our life. His Divine Holiness, Pramukh Swami Maharaj, spiritual head of Bochasanwasi Shree Akshar Puroshottam Swaminarayan Sanstha
timesofindia.indiatimes.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, January 9, 2008: Hundreds of people cried and sang in jubilation on Thursday as Hindu devotees began a victory march to celebrate the return of Indian priests to Nepal’s 17th century Pashupatinath temple and the pledge by the humbled Maoist government not to interfere in its management. “It is a victory for Hindus worldwide,” said Bharat Jangam,…
www.ptinews.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, January 9, 2008: Unhappy with the Maoist bid to interfere into the Pashupatinath temple management, the aides of priests today demanded that instead of the Prime Minister, the President should be made patron of the body overseeing the affairs of Nepal’s most revered Hindu shrine. In the past, the King as the head of the state used…
www.sewausa.org USA, January 6, 2008: Population in Bhutan mainly consists of two communities, Drukpas and Lhotshampas. In 1985 conflict between these two communities resulted in a mass exodus of Lhotshampas, who are Hindus, to Nepal. Since then till 1994 more than hundred thousand Lhotshampas took refuge in UN camps in Nepal living in very poor condition. In 2008 Bhutanese refugees…
www.hinduismtoday.com If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman? Mahatma Gandhi in Young India, 10/4/1930
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