www.mysanantonio.com SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, January 29, 2007: After a 16-year wait, San Antonio’s Hindu temple finally has received its crowning touch, a raja gopuram –literally, a “kingly pagoda” — that identifies the building with its roots in South India. The gopuram, a 42-foot-high entrance tower built by Indian artisans with statues of 52 Hindu Deities sculpted in concrete on site…
HPI KAUAI, HAWAII, January 29, 2007: We are asked at HPI from time to time to recommend a “Hindu” school where someone may send their child to be educated in a Hindu environment, just as a Catholic parent might send a child to Catholic school. It’s a question we can’t answer, and would appreciate our readers letting us know of…
news.bbc.co.uk BIHAR, INDIA, January 27, 2007: Sherab Gyalsten has already been on the road for one year and eight months. He doesn’t run or walk. Instead, the Buddhist monk from Tibet takes three and a half steps forward, then prostrates flat on the road while chanting mantras. Then he gets up, folds his hands in prayer and repeats the process.…
www.thestatesman.net KENDRAPARA, ORISSSA, January 28, 2007: After weeks of discord and strife that had threatened civil order, the dispute over Dalits’ rights to have darshan (view of the Deity) at the Jagannath temple in Keredagada was finally settled today with the lower caste Hindus marching their way to the 300-year-old shrine. “We are happy to know that people have buried…
www.rxpgnews.com AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, January 28, 2007: Many similarities can be found between Sanskrit, the classical language of India, and Maori, the language and tradition of the indigenous people of New Zealand, according to an Indian scientist. In fact, some Hindu cultural facets are more similar to Maori than most people realize, says senior scientist Dr Guna Magesan, who moved…
www.nst.com.my KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, January 25, 2007: (HPI note: A kavadi is a decorated wood arch carried in procession during the festival of Thaipusam honoring Lord Murugan. Pots of milk are carried on each end of the arch and offered to the Deity upon arrival at the temple. Kavadi range in size from small to large affairs weighing over 100…
www.crosswalk.com ALLAHABAD, INDIA, January 24, 2007: (HPI note: This report is from a Christian missionary news service and should be read with that in mind. A search of Google News finds no other report of this incident.) According to ASSIST News Service, Gospel for Asia (GFA) native missionaries in India — including a state leader — have been driven away,…
cbs13.com USA, January 26, 2006: Cathie and Harold Winters like a good steak. “We’re a meat eating family,” Cathie said. But their 12-year-old son Dean is not interested. When mom and dad eat steak, he has a protein substitute. Dean has been a vegetarian since he was in first grade. “I love animals a whole lot, and I really don’t…
www.rxpgnews.com KATHMANDU, NEPAL, January 24, 2007: After a winter of discontent, Nepal’s ‘suspended’ King Gyanendra kept his date with religion, making his first public appearance since a new constitution divested him of his remaining executive position as head of state. The king Tuesday appeared at the capital’s public square, where an ancient palace stands as a tribute to the omnipotence…
www.signonsandiego.com BANGALORE, INDIA, January 22, 2007: Federal police were deployed and schools were shut in India’s technology hub of Bangalore on Monday after communal rioting between Hindus and Muslims left one 12-year-old boy dead and dozens of people hurt. Protests by thousands of Muslims against last month’s execution of Saddam Hussein in Iraq sparked a chain of violence over the…