jammi.rao@btopenworld.com BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, July 8, 2006: (HPI note: For further information on the following press release, contact Dr. Jammi Rao, the temple’s Press Officer, at the e-mail above.) Europe’s largest Hindu temple, near Birmingham, is set to open in August with great fanfare and elaborate rituals performed by priests especially brought from India. The US$12 million temple, funded in part…
timesofindia.indiatimes.com THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, KERALA, July 6, 2006: Here, in a devout village, some 9 km from the Tiruvalla town of southern Kerala, women are worshipped. The temple is dedicated to the Deity of Bhagavati, and follows a unique annual ritual called “Naari Puja.” On the first Friday of Dhanu (December), the male priests wash the feet of female devotees who have…
Paras Ramoutar TRINIDAD, July 6, 2006: It will not air chutney, soca or calypso, just Hinduism and Indian culture. Several years of continuous legal battles in the several levels of in the Trinidad and Tobago justice system are over. It will be the first radio facility promoting Hinduism in the Caribbean. There are over 300,000 Hindus in Trinidad and Tobago.…
www.ndtv.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, July 7, 2006: In a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court has directed the state governments to protect inter-caste couples. The court said that states should encourage inter-caste marriages to ensure a casteless society. The Supreme Court gave this ruling while quashing proceedings initiated against an inter-caste couple in Uttar Pradesh, speaking about the tendency to harass…
www.teluguportal.net RODNEY BAY, ST. LUCIA, July 7, 2006: Jennifer Gaston and Fleming Victor Luther Salapuddi, both St Lucians of Indian origin, are successful professionals. Ms. Gaston’s family came to this island over a hundred years ago, part of the indentured labour shipped by the British to man their plantations, while Dr. Salapuddi came in the 1970s, one of the first…
www.kansas.com WICHITA, KANSAS, July 1, 2006: HPI note: This article appeared in the Wichita Eagle, a newspaper based in Wichita, Kansas.) Karma, according to many Eastern religions, is the ultimate in objective justice–the innately moral music to which our universe twirls. Karma dictates that, sooner or later, we reap what we sow. Like many other spiritual beliefs, karma is a…
www.religionwatch.com USA, July 7, 2006: Fifty percent of Americans report that they have had religious experience, according to the first nationally representative study of spiritual transformations. The study was conducted by Tom Smith of the General Social Survey at the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, who added a special National Spiritual Transformation Study module to the…
HPI KAUAI, HAWAII, July 7, 2006: Hinduism Today is researching an article on vegetarianism in the world’s religions. We are not easily finding material on any manifestation of vegetarianism in Taoism, Confucianism or the Shinto religion of Japan. If you can help with information, kindly e-mail ar@hindu.org.
HPI KAUAI, HAWAII, July 7, 2006: An HPI reader points out that yesterday’s report on Kashmir is misleading. The report says, “The Tripursundari Vaishnavite shrine at Devsar in Anantnag district welcomed hundreds of Kashmiri Pandits, who had migrated from the Valley in 1989 with the onset of militancy, abandoning the temple.” He writes, “What is this ‘migration’? The Pandits were…
wcco.com MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, June 29, 2006: Three months ago, vandals entered the new temple for the Hindu Society of Minnesota and destroyed parts of the walls and Deities that were shipped from overseas. The temple is now ready for worship. Inaugural ceremonies started at the temple on Thursday and they’ll continue through Sunday. It’s a place where the 20,000 Minnesotans…