GO TO SOURCE UNITED STATES, October 10, 2002: In a new survey of American religious beliefs, conducted by the conservative Christian Barna Research Group, 44 percent of those surveyed said, “The Bible, the Koran and the Book of Mormon are all different expressions of the same spiritual truths,” while 38 percent of Americans disagreed with that idea. George Barna, president…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 6, 2002: Residents of the Kailash area of Delhi have been caught up in an ongoing debate with the Sanatan Dharam Mandir. Anju Sehgal Gupta, a resident who was recently threatened by 40 temple sympathizers said, “The character of the temple has changed and authorities treat it more like a three-star hotel. Parties…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 11, 2001: A fashion conscious woman asks, “What are the various lengths that I can try out in a kurta?” Femina (a women’s magazines) responds, “This really depends on two primary factors: Your body type and the occasion. Kurta lengths today vary between hip length (the kurta shirt) to just-below-the-knee. On formal occasions,…
GO TO SOURCEDELHI, INDIA, October 11, 2002: Nearly 600 years after the first Christian missionaries landed in India, brahmin priests are being readied at a seminary near Delhi to take their religion worldwide and defend “the rights of Hindus against conversion.” Religious organizations aligned with India’s Hindu nationalist-led government, committed to preserving Hinduism in its purest and most traditional form,…
Source: Jakarta PostJAKARTA, INDONESIA, October 3, 2002: Tirtagangga (literally meaning the blessed water of Ganga) Water Palace is located at Ababi village, north of Amlapura, the capital of Karangasem regency, around two hours drive from the island’s capital, Denpasar. The five-acre complex was built in 1946 by the last King of Karangasem, as a royal bathing and leisure compound. Located…
Source: Religion News ServiceGENEVA, SWITZERLAND, October 10, 2002: The Global Peace Initiative of Women ended three days of meeting Wednesday, decrying all forms of violence and seeking to forge new strategies to bring peace to areas engulfed in conflict. Some 500 delegates from more than 75 nations ended the meeting with a statement, “The Geneva Declaration of Women for Global…
GO TO SOURCETIRUPATI, INDIA, October 7, 2002: An estimated one million pilgrims flocked to the temple town of Tirumala, Andra Pradesh, last Monday to participate in the festival called Brahmotsavam. Honoring Lord Venkateswara and Goddess Padmavathi, the entire Tirupati hill was decorated in festival style. The presiding deity, Lord Venkateswara’s utsava murthi was decorated with rare and dazzling diamond jewels.…
GO TO SOURCEOXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND, October 11, 2002: Multiculturalism finally entered the grim world of England’s famously-austere Victorian prisons on Thursday, but it marched to the sweet tones of the sitar and sang in Hindi. Two Jalandhar boys — one behind bars, the other strutting the world stage as creator of bhangra-rap — brought India to hundreds of petty criminals, murderers…
GO TO SOURCE DELHI, INDIA, October 11, 2002: Nearly 600 years after the first Christian missionaries landed in India, brahmin priests are being readied at a seminary near Delhi to take their religion worldwide and defend “the rights of Hindus against conversion.” Religious organizations aligned with India’s Hindu nationalist-led government, committed to preserving Hinduism in its purest and most traditional…
GO TO SOURCE DHAKA, BANGLADESH, October 9, 2002: Police have detained ten people suspected of vandalizing eight statues of the Hindu goddess Durga at the Shivkarunamoyee Laxmi Narayan Jeu temple in Narayanganj, near the capital city of Dhaka. The temple’s security guard and nine others have been detained on suspicion of vandalizing the statues, police said. Temple authorities said the…