Religion News Service PORTLAND, OREGON, December 8, 2005: Ore. (HPI note: Hindu temples in the US should take note of this case, as the precedent set here could impact future law suits against religious organizations.) After hearing more than three hours of sometimes heated debate, a U.S. bankruptcy judge will decide who owns the pews that Catholics in Western Oregon…
www.worldsreligionsafter911.com MONTREAL, CANADA, December 9, 2006: The World Religions After 9/11 Conference has issued a call for papers for the meeting in September, 2006. For details, click “source” above. Their website explains the conference purpose: “The events of September 11, 2001 raise crucial issues for the future of religion in the world. Can the religious and the secular dimensions of…
www.hinducounciluk.org JAVA, INDONESIA, July 23, 2004: For the last three decades of the twentieth century, Javanese Hindus have been struggling to formally return to their roots. Previous to a Muslim invasion in the 15th century, Java had been a Hindu nation for over one thousand years. During this invasion most Hindus did convert to Islam. However, the conversion was not…
www.babalokenath.org PORTLAND, OREGON, USA, December 1, 2005: Lokenath Divine Life Fellowship (LDLF) hosted Sri Shuddhaanandaa Baba’s semi-annual US tour in October-November, 2005. Baba brought the ageless wisdom of the Vedas and Yoga to a wide variety of audiences from all levels of society through his Simple Art of Managing Stress (SAMS). Baba inspired each audience to honor and appreciate the…
www.TemplesOnline.org TORONTO, CANADA, December 2, 2005: A unique Hindu website at “source” is launched in Toronto, Canada. TemplesOnline is a new project that connects the Hindu devotees with their temples and helps to promote Hindu culture in Canada & USA. At one level it helps temples in leveraging technology and the other end provide devotees a mechanism to stay connected…
us.imdb.com NEW ZEALAND, November 28, 2005: Hollywood star Naomi Watts was nearly left paralyzed after a horrific fall on the New Zealand set of King Kong. Watts, who plays Ann Darrow in the hotly anticipated remake, fell heavily from a height into a ditch – to the shock of cast and crew. But she insists her rigorous practice of yoga…
Vivekananda Centre UK LONDON, ENGLAND, December 5, 2005: Jay Lakhani of the Vivekananda Centre sends the following report: We are happy with the way the BBC is beginning to portray Hinduism. For example, in its introduction to Hinduism on its Religion-Online website until last week it introduced Hinduism in this negative manner: “It is not a single unified religion and…
iqna.ir KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, November 27, 2005: The Malaysian Prime Minister, Abdullah Badawi, is finding strong support from local religious leaders in the fight against widespread corruption in the country. In an unprecedented initiative, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Sikh leaders unanimously defined corruption as a mortal sin. They have committed themselves to fighting the problem from the pulpit and…
www.npr.org GERMANY, November 30, 2005: A National Public Radio audio report at “source” says that Hindu refugees who escaped from Afghanistan during the Taliban rule were now being deported back forcefully to Afghanistan due to the German government saying things have stabilized in Afghanistan. An older article on life of Hindu refugees in Germany is here. Rahul Yadav writes about…
pd.cpim.org INDIA, December 4, 2005: HPI Note: We share parts of this interesting article from the weekly publication of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), “People’s Democracy.” For those in the West who don’t realize communism is alive and well in India, visit their web site, here. Though datelined December 4, it was written before the California Curriculum Commission meeting…