www.indeonline.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, August 17, 2007: Evangelical groups have joined efforts spearheaded by Roman Catholic, Orthodox and mainstream Protestant churches to create a common code of conduct for religious conversions that would preserve the right of Christians to spread their religion while avoiding conflict among different faiths. The World Council of Churches, which joined the Vatican last year in launching…
www.usakumbhamela.net NORWALK, CALIFORNIA, August 17, 2007: The Kumbha Mela USA this year will be held on Sunday, September 9, in Norwalk, CA, followed by a peace prayer on September 11, continuing in the tradition of the first ever Kumbha Mela in the United States held in 2006. This festival is based on the rich Vedic tradition which heralds in collective…
www.telegraph.co.uk GERMANY, August 16, 2007: A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light – an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time. According to Einstein’s special theory of relativity, it would require an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 186,000 miles per second. However, Dr Gunter…
www.physorg.com UNITED KINGDOM, August 17, 2007: A little-known school of scholars in southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton according to new research. Dr. George Gheverghese Joseph from the University of Manchester says the Kerala School identified the infinite series–one of the basic components of calculus–in about 1350. The discovery is…
news.rgj.com RENO, NEVADA, August 15, 2007: Hindu chaplain Rajan Zed of Reno will deliver a prayer in Sanskrit to the California State Senate on Aug. 27. He gave the first Hindu prayer before the U.S. Senate on July 12. On May 7, he gave the first Hindu prayer before the Nevada Senate. California Senate records go back to 1992 and…
www.msnbc.msn.com USA, August 13, 2007: (HPI note: Is any reader aware of what Hindu books are being left or removed in these prisons?) Moshe Milstein, a religious Jew who is incarcerated at the federal prison in Otisville, N.Y., wants his Maimonides back. Officials at the Otisville prison recently removed hundreds of books from the chapel library there–including, Milstein charges in…
marriage.rutgers.edu NEW JERSEY, USA, August 16, 2007: HPI Note: Following is taken from the Rutgers University website for the National Marriage Project. It is a discussion by David Popenoe of the most common misinformation about divorce in the United States. 1: Because people learn from their bad experiences, second marriages tend to be more successful than first marriages. Although many…
timesofindia.indiatimes.com PATNA, INDIA, August 12, 2007: Affairs of the 300-year-old Khaki Baba Ram Janki Thakurbari at Hilsa will now be managed by an all-Dalit trust. Bihar State Board of Religious Trusts administrator Kishore Kunal said it would be the country’s first all-Dalit trust for a temple. Kunal, who has launched a campaign to appoint Dalit priests in important temples with…
www.temoignages.re REUNION, FRANCE, April 14, 2007: (HPI note: Reunion is a overseas department [province or state] of France that is located off Africa in the Indian Ocean and near the country of Mauritius. It has a significant Hindu population. The interview was one by P. David, in collaboration with Kanal Indian Ocean, KOI FM Radio in Reunion. It was published…
vijaynarang1@gmail.com EDISON, NEW JERSEY, August 14, 2007: Hindu Temple Executives, representing 97 temples and Hindu Organizations from more than 25 states of US and Canada and Caribbean, converged in Edison, New Jersey, to attend the second Hindu Temple Executives Conference (HMEC), from August 10, 2007, through August 12, 2007. They traveled from as far as British Columbia in Canada, Hawaii,…