www.washingtontimes.com WASHINGTON, DC, USA, February 14, 2008: [HPI note: Reacting to proselytizing practices of missionaries, the Sri Lankan government has in the works a law to prevent conversions by “force, fraud or allurement.” HPI often receives news of unethical practices by missionaries. Some representatives of the U.S. government are opposing the measures.] Members of Congress are calling on the ambassador…
www.phnompenhpost.com PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA, February 13, 2009: Greater spiritual freedom for women and a renewed dedication to world peace were the messages preached Thursday at a mixed-faith Buddhism and Hindu forum at Svay Pope pagoda in Phnom Penh. In a pledge at the three-day conference, titled “Giving Global Voice to Eastern Wisdom”, nearly 100 Hindu and Buddhist leaders from India,…
www.elpinguino.com PUNTA ARENAS, CHILE, February 6, 2009: The city of Punta Arenas has one of the largest concentrations of the Chile’s Hindu population. This is one of the reasons why the Ambassador of India in Chile, Pradeep K. Kapur, visited the area yesterday and met with Mayor Vladimiro Mimica Carcamo for approximately 30 minutes. The meeting addressed various issues, but…
www.hinduismtoday.com The chief pujari (priest) from Vrindavan India and the Pope are in a meeting in Rome. The pujari notices an unusually fancy phone on a side table in the Pope’s private chambers. What is that phone for? he asks the pontiff. It’s my direct line to the Lord! The pujari is skeptical, and the Pope notices. The Holy Father…
www.gallup.com USA, February 14, 2009: Yesterday, Hindu Press International brought an article that highlighted the wide differences between U.S. states when it comes to faith and religion. An important number, however, was missing: Overall, the United States’ population that declare that religion is an “important part” of their daily lives is 65%. Across all the 143 populations of Earth covered…
www.hinduonnet.com LONDON, ENGLAND, February 2009: Indian professionals in Britain are uneasy over growing resentment among recession-hit British workers who have been protesting against offering employment to foreigners. A wave of strikes has hit several companies, including oil major Total, in Nottinghamshire and other places in Britain to protest employing foreign workers. The resentment is so far limited to employing workers…
HPI THIRUVAVADUTHURAI, TAMIL NADU, INDIA, February 8, 2009: The ancient Thiruvavaduthurai Aadheenam, one of the most prominent aadheenams in South India, has honored renowned scholar S. P. Sabharathnam with the “Thirumular Award” for his lifetime dedication to the Saiva Agamas. Sabharathnam, who is Hinduism Today’s consultant on Agamas, last January addressed the public at the Indian National Seminar on Agamas,…
hinduismtoday.com KAUAI, HAWAII, February 14, 2009: A free, detailed set of lesson plans for the two history lessons published by Hinduism Today has now been posted at the URL above. These were developed by a professional teacher and will be a great aid in teaching these highly regarded lessons presenting the history of India and Hinduism in a sound scholastic…
www.hinduismtoday.com The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and…
www.themalaysianinsider.com SINGAPORE, February 8, 2009 – With the world’s economy plunging, religious attendance is surging. In the United States, churches have been filling since September. The same seems to be true here, too: attendance at churches, temples and mosques has grown by as much as 50 percent since the recession hit. Angie Monksfield, president of the Buddhist Fellowship, has seen…