Source UTTARAKHAND, INDIA, May 13, 2020 (Times of India): Today, amid Coronavirus lockdown, devotees took out processions from the Narsingh Temple in Joshimath to Badrinath Temple, ahead of opening the portals of the shrine. Badrinath portals are due to open on May 15, i.e., two days before the ongoing nationwide lockdown is scheduled to end. Religious ceremonies were also held…
Source VIJAYAWADA, INDA, May 13, 2020 (New Indian Express): Though Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD), the chief custodian of the world’s richest temple of Lord Venkateswara atop Tirumala, is facing financial problems like any other organization during the lockdown, it is confident of paying salaries to its employees on time. “It is not just TTD, but organizations, small and large, in…
Source Meet life as it comes, with or without the things that your mind is demanding from it.— Swami Chinmayananda (1916-1993), founder of Chinmaya Mission
Source KUANTAN, MALAYSIA, May 10, 2020 (New Strait Times): Temple visits could soon be a whole new experience for Hindu devotees nationwide as they embrace the new normal adopted at the house of worship. The Malaysia Hindu Sangam (MHS) last week submitted a set of guidelines and Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to the National Security Council (NSC) to get their…
Source HYDERABAD, INDIA, May 11, 2020 (Gulf News): The world’s richest Hindu temple management body, Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD), has expressed its inability to pay salaries to its employees and bear the day-to-day expenses of running the temples’ affairs. TTD, whose main source of income is Sri Venkateshwara Temple atop the Tirumala Hills in Andhra Pradesh, has informed its employees…
Source The intellect in its capacity to contain Truth is a very limited tool, while faith is very broad, accommodating and embracing faculty. The mystery of life and beyond life, of Siva, is really better understood through faith than through intellectual understanding.— Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001), founder of Hinduism Today
Source TOKYO, JAPAN, May 9, 2020 (CNN, by Emiko Jozuka): On December 23, 1912, an explosion rocked Delhi just as Lord Hardinge, the British viceroy of India, entered the new capital on the back of an elephant. The bomb was meant to kill him, but instead it peppered Hardinge’s back with shrapnel, killed his attendant and cast a shadow over…
Source NEW DELHI/BEIJING/KATHMANDU, May 10, 2020 (The Star): Nepal has asked India “to refrain from carrying out any activity inside its territory” after expressing regret over New Delhi’s inauguration of a link road in the disputed territory at a strategic three-way junction with Nepal and Tibet at Lipulekh Pass. “This unilateral act runs against the understanding reached between the two…
Source UNITED STATES, May 9, 2020 (The Sun): Between 12,000 and 13,000 of the 17,000 US Catholic churches applied for PPP (federal Paycheck Protection Program) loans. Pat Markey, the executive director of the Diocesan Fiscal Management Conference, an association of finance officers from Catholic dioceses, estimates that around 6,000 Catholic parishes had their applications for federal funding approved in the…
Source UNITED KINGDOM, May 8, 2020 (Eastern Eye): The BAPS Neasden Temple in London has launched a video paying tribute to UK’s key workers battling the Covid-19 pandemic. The video — based on a poem titled “Serving Together in the Joy of Others” — features British Hindu key workers who are part of the BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic…