Nepal’s Draft Constitution Would Ban Religious Conversion

NEPAL, July 22, 2015 (by Julia A. Seymour): HPI Note: This report is from a Christian website. Christians and Muslims in Nepal are criticizing the draft version of a new constitution that bans religious conversion. Spurred to action by the recent earthquake, Nepal’s government introduced the draft for public comment on June 30, Reuters reported. The draft states that “any…

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Daily Inspiration

Source There the eye goes not, nor words, nor mind. We know not. We cannot understand how He can be explained. He is above the known, and He is above the unknown. Thus have we heard from the ancient sages who explained this truth to us.— Sama Veda, Kena Upanishad 1.3

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White House Honors 12 Faith Leaders as Climate-Change “Champions”

Source WASHINGTON, DC, July 21, 2015 (Religion News Service): From a zero-waste synagogue to global development work after natural disasters, environmental projects by faith leaders are being hailed by the Obama administration as examples of exemplary leadership on climate change. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy highlighted initiatives by a dozen leaders from a range of faiths, who were recognized…

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Daily Inspiration

Source Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.— Rabindranath Tagore, (1861-1941) celebrated Bengali writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.

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Daily Inspiration

Source Man arrives at immortality by breaking beyond the limitations not only of his physical self, but of his mental and his ordinary psychic nature into the highest plane and supreme ether of the Truth: for there is the foundation of immortality and the native seat of the triple infinite.— Sri Aurobindo (1879-1950)

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Vedic Vidyalayas Attract Applicants

Source UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA, July 19, 2015: (Financial Express): Around 400 children, from across the country, aged between 9 and 11 years, came to take the entrance test for 25 seats in the traditional Vedic vidyalayas schools of Allahabad. Most of them were from Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. Only 150 students had appeared for the…

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Misleading Charge of Plagiarism Against Rajiv Malhotra Lights Up Social Media

Source INDIA, July 18, 2015 (Firstpost, by Rajeev Srinivasan): HPI note: following are excerpts from this long essay which may be read in full at “source” above. See also R. Jagannathan’s article at http://www.firstpost.com/india/rajiv-malhotras-net-plagiarism-charge-shows-no-longer-man-ignore-2349652.html, which goes into more detail on the exact instances of alleged plagiarism, and Shoaib Daniyal’s article, http://scroll.in/article/740814/plagiarism-row-how-rajiv-malhotra-become-the-ayn-rand-of-internet-hindutva. There has been a lot of commotion over on…

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