Source MADURAI, INDIA, April 29, 2014 (The Hindu): Invoking the God of rains, a special puja (Varuna Jeba Yagam) was performed at the Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple in the early hours of Monday. A special abishekam was performed on the Nandi statue at the Veeravasantharayar Mandapam. Verses were recited from the Thirumurai of Sundaramoorthy Nayanar by the temple priests and a…
Source INDIA, April 30, 2014 (UCANews): Hindus from Pakistan often travel to India on one-month pilgrim visas, purportedly to visit the innumerable Hindu holy places and shrines around the country. But since 2011, the number of Pakistani Hindus refusing to leave at the end of their stay has increased dramatically in response to the easing of visa regulations by the…
Source BERBICE, GUYANA, April 22, 2014 (Kaieteur News): The Hindu Society of Berbice opened the multi-million-dollar Shri Krishna Mandir with a grand ceremony on Sunday at Gay Park, Greater New Amsterdam. The edifice, which models the rare designs of Hindu places of worship in Southern India, is a rarity among architectural designs in these parts of the world. President Donald…
Source WASHINGTON D.C., U.S., April 24, 2014 (Times Of India): With Indians and other Asian-Americans and Pacific-Islanders growing in number at a fast pace, people of color will be in the majority in the US by mid-century, according to a new report. They are also quickly reaching the critical mass needed to be politically relevant, says the report from the…
Source NEW DELHI, INDIA, April 24, 2014 (Vancouverdesi): The Supreme Court Thursday entrusted the administration of the Sri Padmanabhaswamy temple in Kerala to a five-member committee headed by the district judge of Thiruvananthapuram. The court also said the keys of the temple vault holding its treasure would be handed over to the district judge. The court’s interim order on the…
Source KERALA, INDIA, April 23, 2014 (Indian Express): The controversy surrounding the alleged mismanagement of Kerala’s famous Sree Padmanabhaswamy temple on Wednesday evoked sharp reaction from the Supreme Court, which said there are certain “disturbing features” and “extremely serious” issues which require immediate redressal. The observation by the bench came at the outset of the hearing when senior advocate Gopal…
Source INDIA, May 2,2014 (by Ananth Krishnan, The Hindu): Chinese entrepreneur Zhao Qingfeng’s shop sits hidden in a maze of several thousand outlets at the Yiwu market – a sprawling area stretching across the size of 750 football fields that is the world’s largest commodity market. It attracts half a million businessmen from 90 countries in search of everything from…
Source If you long to see God, take to spiritual practices. What is the good of merely crying, “O God! O God!”?— Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa (1836-1886)
Source WASHINGTON, May 2, 2014, (by Cathy Lynn Grossman, RNS): Believers don’t buy the Big Bang, God-less evolution or a human responsibility for global warming. Actually, neither do many Americans. But a new survey by The Associated Press found that religious identity — particularly evangelical Protestant — was one of the sharpest indicators of skepticism toward key issues in science.…
https://thecoastnews.com/2014/04/homegrown-yoga-program-expands-to-other-state ENCINITAS, CALIFORNIA, April 24, 2014 (The Coast News): At Broome Street Academy, a school that serves homeless and foster-care teens in New York City, students have been doing yoga since January. The template for their program: Encinitas Union School District yoga. “I’m actually surprised at how it’s been embraced,” said Barbara McKeon, Head of School at Broome Street Academy.…