Source: The Boston Globe, November 9, 2000 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS: Schools faced with stressed-out children are introducing relaxation breaks using positive mental imagery (best for girls), or deep breathing or muscle relaxing (works on boys). Other methods include repeating a line from a favorite song, carrying a good-luck charm, have a buddy to turn to in times of stress. “It used…
Source: Catholic World News, October 13, 2000 VATICAN: A group of Hawaiians and natives of Caribbean islands held an orderly demonstration in St. Peter’s Square on Thursday, asking Pope John Paul II to repudiate a 500-year-old papal bull that encouraged Christian nations to enter the New World to convert pagans. The small group of about a dozen presented a copy…
GO TO SOURCE SEATTLE, WASHINGTON: We’re not sure what inspired this company to put Hindu deities on toilet seats. But they are surely in for some serious protests from the Hindu community, who will consider this an outrageous sacrilege. The company sells two seats, one with Lord Ganesha and one with Goddess Kali on the bottom side of the lid…
GO TO SOURCE ITHACA, NEW YORK: Rajiv Malhotra challenged attendees at a November 8 conference on “Human Rights and Religion.” He said in part, “We have heard numerous talks at this event about the human rights problems related to white supremacy groups, but do we have the courage to examine the possibility that there might be Christian supremacy groups as…
GO TO SOURCE SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA: Dr. George Feuerstein announced the acquisition of an 11,000 square-foot office building in Santa Rosa to serve as the Yoga Research and Education Center as its headquarters and teaching center. The purchase of the building costing $1.8 million was made possible by a donation from two of YREC’s board members. The building will allow…
GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA: Quark India Pvt. Ltd. announced the release of QuarkXPress Mudra, the Indian-language version of QuarkXPress, the world’s leading publishing software. Mudra supports critical typographic and publishing features like the spell checker, kerning and tracking, finding and replacing, multiple keyboard layouts, and true outline for Indian languages–including Sanskrit. Quark India said, “It provides powerful Indian-language…
GO TO SOURCE LAHORE, PAKISTAN: Thousands of Sikhs from around the world congregated in the city of Nankana Sahib, about 80 km from Lahore, Pakistan, to celebrate the birth anniversary of the founder of Sikhism, Guru Nanak. The religious leader was born in 1469. The city, usually quiet, teemed with pilgrims eager to take back souvenirs from the holy city.…
Source: The Independent (London), November 12, 2000 LONDON, ENGLAND: The latest exercise fad, Disco Yoga, originates in America at Gold’s Fitness Center on Lafayette Street, where the “Thursday Night Fever” Disco Yoga class is packed with New Yorkers in pursuit of the perfect body. For a high-energy 60 minutes, instructor Trixie takes the class on a “disco trip with dynamic…
Source: BBC World Broadcasts, November 13, 2000 KATHMANDU, NEPAL: Police arrested Trond Berg and three Nepalis after Lokendra Kuma Jha complained to police that the four tried to allure him to convert on an enticement of Nepal Rs. 40,000. The four were arrested several weeks ago at a local inn in Rajbiraj while preaching. Christian organizations around the world have…
GO TO SOURCE RICHMOND, VIRGINIA: Last year, the Southern Baptists offended in turn Muslims, Jews and Hindus with their prayer booklets designed for each religion. Next, former president Jimmy Carter, a member since childhood, quit the huge Christian church because he no longer agreed with their increasingly fundamentalist stance. Then the Southern Baptists of Texas cut off US$5 million in…