timesofindia.indiatimes.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, December 30, 2008: The government’s decision to sack South Indian priests from the Pashupatinath Temple in the capital has sparked a row in Nepal, with the main Opposition party accusing the Maoists of hurting “the religious sentiments” of the Hindus in the country. The Nepali Congess, the second largest party in the country, has raised serious objections…
blogs.reuters.com (Reuters Editorial Blog) December 29, 2008: Political scientist Samuel Huntington, whose controversial book “îhe Clash of Civilizations”†predicted conflict between the West and the Islamic world, has died at age 81, Harvard University said on Saturday.br /br /In his 1996 “îhe Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order,”†which expanded on his 1993 article in Foreign Affairs magazine, Huntington…
www.hinduismtoday.com O Lord of power, if I were the Lord of herds of cattle, then I would have given to those intelligent worshippers plenty, as much as I could. Rig Veda 8.14.2
www.ndtv.com PUNE, INDIA, December 30, 2008: An institute in Pune is offering women a one-year course to train them to become purohitas, female priests. The response so far has been quite encouraging. “Seventy per cent of our batch comprises women, most of them housewives, who are doing this course to do a job of a purohita,” said Arya Joshi, Senior…
www.nhpr.org CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE, U.S.A., December 26, 2008: The U.S. economic recession is wreaking havoc on the lives and hopes of refugees here. In the past, a refugee in America would receive a few months of assistance, find a job with modest wages and work hard to achieve a more secure economic footing. Historically, according to government figures, about 70%…
www.hinduismtoday.com The future is the continuing summation of all our past actions and reactions, for there is only the moment in which we live. The eternal now is the only consciousness we have when living in the higher states of mind. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
www.nytimes.com ALUVA, KERALA, INDIA, December 30, 2008: Catholics represent a tiny proportion of the population in India. But among them, young men willing to join the Catholic priesthood are plentiful, unlike in the United States and Europe. As a result, bishops trek here from the United States, Europe, Latin America and Australia looking for spare priests to fill their empty…
www.hinduismtoday.com The body of Ben Franklin, like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding, lies here food for worms, but the Work shall not be lost, for it will, as he believed, appear once more in a new and more elegant edition, revised and corrected by the Author. Epitaph of…
news.bbc.co.uk KATHMANDU, NEPAL, December 29, 2008: Beginning in January, breaking a 300 year tradition, Nepalese priests will conduct the worship ceremonies at Nepal’s famous Pashupatinath Temple. One of the most famous sites in Hinduism, the temple has experienced a significant break with tradition. Its prayers always used to be led by priests recruited from south India. But now they have…
Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) The economic recession has not led to an increase in attendance at U.S. houses of worship, according to Gallup pollsters. Despite anecdotal evidence cited in high-profile media outlets, Americans’ worship patterns have held steady in 2008, the Gallup Poll reports. Since mid-February, Gallup said, it has asked 1,000 adults a day how often they attend…