sltrib.com SALT LAKE, U.S.A, September 2, 2005: The tower on a Hindu temple is designed to look like a mountain, reaching higher and higher toward the Gods. It is covered with figures divine and scary, meant to invoke enlightenment while warding off evil spirits. Perched on the peak of the tower installed this week on top of the Sri Ganesha…
hck@kenyaweb.com PORT LOUIS, MAURITIUS, September 9, 2005: The Hindu Council of Africa (e-mail at “source”) is holding the All Africa Hindu Conference in Mauritius from September 17 to 19, assisted by local organizations in Mauritius. The main theme of the conference will be “Hindus in the Evolving African Context” and the specific topics are Hindu family values, Hindus in African…
www.canada.com MONTREAL, CANADA, September 3, 2005: Arvind Sharma and his colleagues from McGill University and elsewhere have invited representatives from many countries and more than 15 religions to join them at the Palais des Congres about a year from now. Sharma, a professor of comparative religion at McGill University, is the president of a five-day World Congress on World’s Religions…
www.hinduismtoday.com KAUAI, HAWAII, September 9, 2005: For obscure technical reasons, the September 8th HPI was not delivered to most of our aol.com subscribers. You can read the issue on our website at “source” above.
news.webindia123.com MUMBAI, INDIA, September 7, 2005: Despite being badly ravaged by rains and post-flood diseases just over a month ago, celebration was in the air all across Maharashtra Wednesday as the 10-day Ganapati festival got underway. The festival, the biggest and most important in India’s most industrialized state, marks Lord Ganesha’s birthday on the fourth day of the bright fortnight…
202.131.142.25 MUMBAI, INDIA, September 6, 2005: Around 8,000 Ganesh mandals (temporary temples set up on the side of, or in, the street) have been decorated and lit up across the city to welcome the Elephant God. Decorations at most big mandals are theme-based and themes vary from the religious to the glamorous. The Tejukaya Sarvajanik Ganeshotsava Trust, Lalbaug, extols the…
www.ndtv.com MUMBAI, INDIA, September 7, 2005: Mumbai and Konkan are facing a shortage of pandits with thousands of pujas everywhere. “Now we have to buy cassettes. We have to be careful that the cassettes we buy are keeping up with the correct religious tradition,” said Raju Bhagwat, Resident, Chiplun. For the last 20 years during Ganeshotsav, Pandit Padmanabh has been…
www.newindpress.com MUMBAI, INDIA, September 8, 2005: As this mega-city ushered in this year’s Ganapati festival on Wednesday, not just Hindus but also Muslims, Christians, Parsis and other religious groups were preparing to join in the 10-day revelry. With thousands of small and big icons of Ganesha, the elephant-headed God, being installed in almost every nook and corner of the city,…
www.ekklesia.co.uk September 5, 2005: As relief finally arrives in places devastated by Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana and Mississippi, Christians have been reminded that they should not use aid as a cynical tool for winning vulnerable people over to their religious convictions. Tom Palakudiyil, who has run the international agency Christian Aid’s response to several emergencies in Asia, says in Third…
www.ekklesia.co.uk USA, September 5, 2005; A group in the US which distributed leaflets to tsunami survivors telling them to prepare for death, has produced a controversial new tract aimed at survivors of hurricane Katrina. Their tracts, which often describe in detail famous disasters and tragedies from around the world, suggest that people can be ‘saved’ if they confess their sins.…