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Source SINGAPORE, June 19, 2019 (Channel News Asia): Representative bodies of Singapore’s key religious communities have affirmed their commitment to safeguard religious harmony in the country. More than 250 organisations have put their names to the commitment, including the Catholic Archdiocese, Hindu Advisory Board, Islamic Religious Council of Singapore, National Council of Churches of Singapore, Sikh Advisory Board, Singapore Buddhist…

Source Realize the truest reality, the real power, that you are; Infinite you are, above all danger and difficulty. — Swami Rama Thirtha (1873-1906), Hindu teacher and lecturer

Source SANTO DOMINGO, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, June 13, 201 (Somos Pueblo, translated from Spanish) Education Minister Antonio Pena Mirabal insisted on his opposition to reading the Bible in schools because there is religious diversity in schools. “In the public schools of this country there are thousands of Haitian students who practice in voodoo. So, what are we going to do with…

Source GEORGE TOWN, MALAYSIA, June 14, 2019 (Free Malaysia Today): The only Hindu temple on Penang Hill here is set to become a grand tourist attraction after undergoing major restoration work as part of its 12-year consecration ceremony culminating today. The 150-year old Sri Aruloli Thirumurugan temple has been painted a myriad of colors in a unique “mambalabaram” style, the…

Source QUEBEC, CANADA, May 30, 2019 (The Hindu by Priyamvada Sankar): It has been a saga of 50 years as I adopted the country, which gave back to me generously. Within a few weeks of my arrival in North America, as a new bride, thanks to the contacts of my father Dr. V. Raghavan, I was invited by the Syracuse…

Source Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realize that they know nothing. — Sri Ramakrishna (1836-1886), famed guru of Swami Vivekananda

Source U.S., MAY 7, 2019 (Swarajyamag by Aravindan Neelakandan): Belgian Indologist Dr. Koenraad Elst is a dangerous scholar. With a cruel pleasure the establishment media and mediocre scholars bracket him with crackpots and zealots. Interestingly, both the establishment Hindutva side (as far as that exists) as well as the newly emerging Internet Hindutva types are not exactly comfortable with him.…

Source God Siva’s all-knowingness is always inside of us. We don’t have to do anything for it to be there; that’s the important thing. We just have to look in the right place at the right time. — Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, publisher of Hinduism Today

Source image: WASHINGTON, DC, June 5, 2019 (HAF): Lanham, Maryland’s Sri Siva Vishnu Temple Center for Dharma Education hosted a town hall Saturday, June 1, on the importance of the Caribbean Hindu community in advancing Hinduism in the Diaspora, as well as some of the challenges many Diasporic Hindus face in the United States. The town hall, “Bhakti in Berbice…

Source image: HAMBURG, GERMANY, June 10, 2019 (Universitat Hamburg): Mt. Kailash in the far west of Tibet is one of the holiest mountains in the world, revered by Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Boenpo. During the last two decades, also Westerners set out for this remote region. Improved infrastructure and more liberal issuing of permits let their number and very much…