GO TO SOURCE NAGPUR, INDIA, July 19,2001: A Nagpur-based historian and an activist of Bahujan Samaj Party, M M Deshmukh, was arrested from his residence on Monday by Umari police for allegedly making derogatory remarks against the Hindu God Brahmadev and Goddess Saraswati. According to reports, Deshmukh delivered a public speech on April 23 at Umari on the occasion of…
Source: Times of India DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, October 4, 2001: A new dress code to be enforced in the Sharjah Emirate under the “decency law” frowns upon the sari for women and shortpants for men. The local order, No. 1 for 2001, enunciating the code came into effect on September 26 and thousands of multi-lingual leaflets in Malayalam, Urdu,…
GO TO SOURCE WASHINGTON, D.C., October 4, 2001: More than a hundred military chaplains may be called up to active duty along with reserve units, according to this report. US military chaplains for more than 200 years have conducted worship services, provided pastoral counseling and religious and moral education, as well as support in family services. They are also active…
GO TO SOURCE SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA, October 4, 2001: A new effort called the Presidential Prayer Team is registering tens of thousands of Americans of all religions to pray for President Bush and the nation in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. “We have 140,000 people that have come over the Internet, signing up their commitment to pray daily…
Source: Deccan Herald WASHINGTON, D.C., September 28, 2001: In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks led by Osama bin Laden on the U.S., America may be employing psychic spies to determine their course of action. According to this article, it was during the cold war that these psychics were able to detect the top secret Typhoon submarine of the Soviet…
Source: Source: http://www.gfa.org/revival CARROLLTON, TEXAS, October 1, 2001: The Gospel for Asia and the All-India Christian Council issued the following press release today. No other information has appeared in the press reports monitored by HPI, and there no independent confirmation of what might simply be wishful thinking from The Gospel for Asia, a zealous evangelical organization run by an Indian…
Source: Hinduism Today NEW YORK, NEW YORK, September 30, 2001: Stephen Huyler’s other-worldly exhibit “Meeting God, Elements of Hindu Devotion” (see Hinduism Today, Dec 1996) which began five years ago at the Sackler Museum in Washington, D.C., has been taken to new dimensions at its present location in the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City. The…
GO TO SOURCE ALIGARH, INDIA, September 28, 2001: One of the biggest fears for Indian authorities since the attacks on New York and Washington has been that the fallout could trigger a fresh flare-up between the country’s Hindus and Muslims. Fully 85% of India’s more than one billion people are Hindu, but the population includes 12% or 120 million Muslims,…
GO TO SOURCE NEW YORK, NEW YORK, September 30, 2001: Our thanks to several readers who informed us that the Hindu priest at the September 23 gathering, Prayer for America, at Yankee Stadium, New York was Pandit Roop Sukhram of the Hindu Sharam Temple in Brooklyn. His said to the assembled mourners, most relatives of victims of the attack, “On…
Source: The Hindustan Times MUMBAI, INDIA, September 23, 2001: A Class VI handbook authored by human rights activist and joint editor of “Communalism Combat,” Teesta Setalvad, has attracted criticism from local Hindus. The handbook, which describes the famed warrior Shivaji as a sudra, is given to teachers at Mumbai’s Don Bosco Catholic school. The book traces the rise of Shivaji…