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,…
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…
prithivi76_s@yahoo.co.uk CHENNAI, INDIA, January 23, 2007: The following report was submitted by Prithiviraj of Chinmaya Mission on their one-week youth camp in Coimbatore which concluded on January 1, 2007: Soft morning sunshine and the warmth of the 1,008 names of Prabhu welcomed our hearts to a new day, a new year and a new beginning. Seven days, seven powers, one…
www.organiser.org DEHRADUN, INDIA, January 21, 2007: All India president of Shri Guruji Birth Centenary Celebration Committee and founder of Bharatmata Mandir, Haridwar, Swami Satyamitranand Giri has called upon the Hindus to defend Hinduism themselves and remove their shortcomings. He was addressing a massive gathering in Dehradun recently. It was the biggest Hindu sammelan held in the State capital during the…
www.newyorker.com NEW YORK, U.S., September 25, 2006: (HPI note: This article appeared in the “Talk of the Town” section of the famed New Yorker magazine. Swami Bua is reputed to be 115 years old. We can’t vouch for that precisely, but when we first met him in Paris in 1969 — 38 years ago — he was already an elderly…
www.hinducounciluk.org LONDON, ENGLAND, January 21, 2007: (HPI note: The following press release is from the Hindu Council UK.) While Germany holds the European Union presidency, its Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries has, without realizing its wider implications, proposed to ban the swastika throughout Europe. This is evidently to demonstrate Germany’s repentance of the treatment meted out to the Jews by the…
www.elfaroceutamelilla.com CEUTA, SPAIN, January 15, 200&; (HPI note: This report is translated from Spanish) Carpenters, electricians and bricklayers are working against the clock on Echegaray Street where the new Hindu temple is being built. “We hope to inaugurate it by the end of February,” explains Ramesh Chandiramani, president of the Hindu community. In order to build the temple the Ceuta…
www.catholic.org BHOPAL, INDIA, January 16, 2007: (HPI note: This report is from a Catholic on-line news service) The practices of a majority religion should not be imposed on other minority religions, said an Indian archbishop, reacting sharply to a decision of an Indian state government. In a January 15 interview with the Indian Catholic, the Internet news service of the…
www.sfgate.com SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, January 15, 2007: (HPI note: This article is part of the excellent “Finding My Religion” Series by David Ian Miller running in the San Francisco Chronicle which has featured several Hindus.) Krishna’s childhood nickname was “Butter thief.” Siva likes to get away from it all every now and then. Ganesha has a sweet tooth, so be…