GO TO SOURCE NEW YORK, USA, July 3, 2001: About one to two percent percent of Americans have vitilego, a loss of pigment causing white patches to appear on the skin. While the condition is not contagious, painful, itchy or dangerous, the disfigurement it can be — especially for dark-skinned people — profoundly damaging socially, professionally and psychologically. In India,…
GO TO SOURCE STRASBOURG, FRANCE, July 4, 2001: The Council of Europe said yesterday it was deeply concerned about racism and anti-semitism in Germany, slamming a broad political atmosphere of intolerance and apathy toward racist attacks in the country. Its latest report on racism and intolerance notes that the causes of racist attacks include open and latent racism and anti-semitism…
GO TO SOURCE LONDON, ENGLAND, July 3, 2001: The trial of a man accused of murdering a well-known Hindu priest has begun at Nottingham Crown Court. Harish Purohit, a high-profile member of Leicester’s Hindu community, bled to death after being stabbed 16 times in October last year. Dean Riddell, 26, admits killing Harish Purohit by stabbing him in the neck,…
GO TO SOURCE JAMMU, INDIA, July 1, 2001: Despite the fact that more than 30,000 people have been killed in Kashmir since 1989 due to the state’s Muslim majority protesting being part of Hindu India, religious fervor by Hindus is still predominant. It is expected that over 100,000 Hindu pilgrims will make the journey from Jammu to the Amarnath Cave.…
Source: BBC JAMMU, KASHMIR, July 6, 2001: The authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir say a gunbattle between militants and security forces on the Jammu-Srinagar highway has delayed a convoy of Hindu pilgrims going to Amarnath. At least three Indian security personnel and a militant were killed. A pro-Pakistani group, Lashkar-e-Toiba, said it was involved in the clash. Some 4,000 pilgrims later…
GO TO SOURCE WASHINGTON, USA, July 6, 2001: The US government’s Agriculture Department denies allegations by Burger King Corp. that government inspectors are failing to enforce humane-handling standards in slaughterhouses. In a recent letter to Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, Burger King chief executive John Dasburg said the department’s enforcement of the Humane Slaughter Act was unacceptable. The law requires that…
GO TO SOURCE CANADA, July 5, 2001: The Christian “Voice of the Martyrs” issued the following “Persecution and Prayer Alert” for India today: “As numbers of lower caste Indians embrace Christ, and in the face of the increasingly violence against Christians in India at the hands of Hindu militants, Dr. Joseph D’Souza, President of the All India Christian Council, is…
GO TO SOURCE INDIANAPOLIS, USA, July 5, 2001: Mosques in America are generally places with a growing community of believers that have a vital spiritual life and offer social services to the faithful, says Ihsan Bagby, the leader of the first comprehensive survey of Islam in the United States. Bagby of Shaw University in Raleigh, N.C., led a project in…
GO TO SOURCE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, June 29, 2001: Mata Amritanandamayi has changed a lot of people’s lives for the better, but her greatest miracle in America may have been melting the hearts of one mainstream journalist after another across the country. Reverential articles have appeared about her in the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times.…
GO TO SOURCE MUMBAI, INDIA, July 3, 2001: Sanskar TV is India’s first 24-hour channel to cover Indian culture, heritage and traditions. A press release from Sanskar says they devote 80% of the channel time to video of temple worship and devotional singing and music. They announced today that for the next month, beginning July 5, they will have air…