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 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 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…
Source: Agence France Presse, November 12, 2000 NEW DELHI, INDIA: “Some 30,000 RSS activists will establish contact with 2.5 million families in New Delhi” in the month-long drive, said Satyanarayan Bansal, chief of the RSS Delhi chapter. “We will tell the minorities (Muslims and Christians) that we are not enemies. We are friends. We want to live together. We are…
GO TO SOURCE BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON: Hindus and Buddhists may have to find a new word for the concept of “dharma,” now that Interactive Objects, Inc., has trademarked the term for a “hardware platform for digital audio appliances.” The company explains that “In Hindu [sic] the word Dharma stands for a principle that orders the universe. Dharma also speaks to the…
Source: The Hindustan Times, November 12, 2000 GHAZIABAD, INDIA: Today, all roads led to Garhmukteshwar where people thronged Garh Ganga for a holy dip on the occasion of Kartik Purnima. More than 2.7 million people took a bath in the holy Ganga today. Due to the heavy rush of pilgrims, all the roads leading to Garh Ganga were blocked at…