www.hinduonnet.com LONDON, UK, March 11, 2008: In a role reversal, Indians are not only meeting the shortage of priests in churches in Britain, but Christian migrants from India, particularly from Kerala, are helping boost dwindling church congregations. One of the first Indian priests to arrive in Wales to preach Christianity was Rev Hmar Sangkhuma, from the Diocese of Mizoram in…
dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com LONDON, UK, March 11, 2008: Scientists have long projected that areas will become more desertic in a warming world — from the Middle East through the European Riviera to the American Southwest, from sub-Saharan Africa to parts of Australia. But scientists have measured a rapid recent expansion of desert-like barrenness in the subtropical oceans, in places where surface waters…
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www.hinduismtoday.com The modern Hindu struggles in vain to understand the religion of his forefathers, and gives up the quest altogether. Swami Vivekananda, (1863-1902) summarizing the impact of Lord T. B.Macaulay’s education policy in India and the destructive success of the government Anglican schools for Hindus
news.bbc.co.uk KATMANDU, NEPAL, March 10, 2008: After more than 15 years of waiting, the first Bhutanese refugees in Nepal have started to leave for a new life in other countries. More than 100,000 Nepali-speaking Bhutanese people have been in refugee camps in Nepal since the early 1990s. The mainly Hindu people were forced out of Bhutan, a Himalayan kingdom which…
newsblaze.com SRINAGAR, INDIA, March 8, 2008: Soomyar Mandir, a Hindu temple at Haba-Kadal in the summer capital Srinagar was thrown open after 19 years. Before the onset of militancy in 1989, the Haba-Kadal had the maximum concentration of Kashmiri Hindus. After the turmoil, most of the Kashmiri Hindu families migrated to different parts of India and Indian troops set up…
www.mynews.in TAMIL NADU, INDIA, March 11, 2008: Two Christians died and many more were wounded when shot by police who intervened yesterday to stop clashes between Dalit Catholics and upper caste Catholics in the diocese of Pondicherry- Cuddalore (Tamil Nadu). Troubles started on March 7 when a group of Dalit Christians from the Villupuram district began a hunger strike to…
www.chinapost.com.tw DENPASAR, INDONESIA, March 10, 2008: The normally vibrant Indonesian tourist destination of Bali came to a standstill last Friday as the island’s Hindu majority celebrated the Hindu New Year. The Day of Silence, known as Nyepi, saw Balinese staying home, not working or playing, and for the most devout not even talking or eating. The island’s international Ngurah Rai…
www.bloomberg.com NEW YORK, U.S.A., March 10, 2008: The Vatican has put together a list of seven “social” sins that includes excessive wealth, drug abuse, littering, genetic tampering and creating poverty. Echoing the concept of the seven cardinal vices — set to paper by Pope Gregory I in the sixth century — the new list adds a social dimension, Bishop Gianfranco…
www.hinduismtoday.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, March 9, 2008: “Karan Singh, Sakshat Itihas” (“Karan Singh, History Personified”) is a pictorial biography in Hindi launched with grand fanfare by Delhi’s Chief Minister on Friday, 9th March, 2008, the 77th birthday of Dr. Karan Singh. The illustrious gathering on the occasion included capital’s leading lights from literary and political circles. Both the Chief Minister…