GO TO SOURCE ONTARIO, CANADA, June 14, 2001: The following item appeared on this Christian evangelical website: “Christian Aid Mission’s Nepal representative, Sarla Mahara, said there are some concerns about how the recent upheaval in Nepal could affect the church. ‘The late king was a pro-democracy guy, so he really had nothing against the Christians; but now, it’s so unstable.…
GO TO SOURCE BALI, INDONESIA, June 6, 2001: Although most of Indonesia’s provinces are predominantly Muslim, Bali is mainly Hindu. Hindus cremate their dead. In Bali a cremation is an important occasion, lavish and expensive. Sometimes, poor families that cannot afford an immediate ceremony will preserve the body and wait, sometimes for years, so that the body could be cremated…
GO TO SOURCE ENGLAND, June 15, 2001: The Church of England is in financial turmoil. It is merging parishes, chopping jobs and relying increasingly on “weekend priests” who are happy to work for nothing. It is squeezing the faithful for donations. Last autumn the Diocese of London admitted that it was raiding its reserves at the rate of US$1.6 million…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, February 19, 2001: Ayurveda, the Indian system of medicine whose treatises date back to the first millennium, has been given a bad rap by a report from the British House of Lord Committee on Science and Technology last November, 2000. In their report, Ayurveda is grouped with other disciplines such as Chinese herbal medicine…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, June 13, 2001: A 1998 case filed by four old men in the small town of Kollam in Kerala stresses the problems facing the elderly. The success of Kerala’s primary health programs has resulted in a life expectancy here of 70 years, while the whole of India averages 59. A high percentage of younger…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, June 6, 2001 : Women are making strides in both India and China, living longer and are more likely to be able to read and write than ever before. Despite this progress women are making, female fetuses are being aborted at startling rates in China and across broad swaths of India, new census data…
GO TO SOURCE New York, USA, June 12, 2001: After Seattle vegetarians, it is now the turn of Texas Hindus to charge fast-food giant McDonald’s in a class-action lawsuit over the issue of beef-flavored french fries. The lawsuit alleges that from 1990 until the present the defendants intentionally concealed from the plaintiffs the use of beef in their fries and…
Source: Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, June 10, 2001: Devotees watch and listen intently to this middle-aged woman from India. Geeta S. Iyengar, the world’s leading female yoga teacher, challenges them to drop their lingering doubts and tap their inner strength to achieve proper alignment of various yoga postures developed by her father, BKS Iyengar. At the age of…
GO TO SOURCE NEW YORK, NEW YORK, June 3, 2001: The New Age mind-body connection that is normally associated with actresses, supermodels and Buddhist monks is now the exercise du jour with some of the hulks in the National Football League. The Giants and Denver Broncos have worked with a yoga instructor to incorporate yoga as part of the team’s…
GO TO SOURCE BANGKOK, THAILAND, June 16, 2001: According to the director of the Institute for Scientific and Technological Research, Mr Phirasak Worasuntharosot, food prepared from cooking oil that has been used repeatedly is likely to be contaminated by cancer-causing dioxins. Laboratory tests indicated that cooking oil used more than a few times released carcinogenic free radicals or dioxins. He…