Source ENCINITAS, CALIFORNIA, October 23, 2012 (ABC News): Parents in a southern California community are considering legal action over the constitutionality of a form of yoga being taught to their children, which they claim is introducing religion into public schools. Last month, half of the students attending classes in the Encinitas Union School District K-6 elementary schools in San Diego…
Source FAIZABAD, UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA, October 26, 2012 (BBC): Tension prevails in Faizabad town in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh after two people were killed in religious violence on Thursday. The town was put under curfew for the entire day after rioters burnt several shops and vehicles. Curfew was lifted on Friday morning, but few people are out…
Source Things that are real are given and received in silence. God has been everlastingly working in silence, unobserved, unheard, except by those who experience His Infinite Silence.— Meher Baba (1894-1969)
Source BOKSBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, October 24, 2012 (thenewage.co.za): The Human Rights Commission (HRC) is investigating alleged racial and religious discrimination at a school in Boksburg while the teacher at the centre of the row has been suspended (see HPI: here). This follows complaints against a teacher at the Parkdene Primary School who has been accused of harassing a Grade 3…
Source AMRITSAR, INDIA, October 24, 2012 (Times of India): These days, the tiny Hindu community of Karachi in Pakistan is buzzing with the songs eulogizing Lord Rama and stories of his valor are being enacted in the Ramleelas being staged at the Swami Narayan temple.The Ramleela is being organized by Naryana Sewa Garaba Mandal and Pakistan Hindu Seva Welfare Trust…
Source DENPASAR, BALI, INDONESIA, October 26, 2012 (AP): An archaeologist says a structure that is believed to be the remains of an ancient Hindu temple has been unearthed on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali. Wayan Swantika of the local archaeology agency says workers digging a drainage basin last week in eastern Denpasar, Bali’s capital, at first discovered a large stone…
Source “Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child, the whole world is your own.”— Sri Sarada Devi (1853-1920) wife of Sri Ramakrishna
Source THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA, October 24, 2012 (IANS): Thousands of tiny tots took the first step into the world of letters, through the ceremony called Vidyarambham (beginning of knowledge) when they wrote the first letters of the Malayalam alphabet on sand or rice with the help of academics, litterateurs, teachers and politicians Wednesday. Temples, institutions, clubs, media houses and even churches…
Source THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, KERALA, INDIA, October 24, 2012 (Press Trust of India): Congress Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) today termed as “unconstitutional” the Kerala government’s move to make it mandatory for Hindu members of the legislative assembly (MLAs) to declare that they “believe in God” in order to vote for nominees to temple boards. (The move would prevent the CPI-M MLAs from…
Press Trust of India DHAKA/KATHMANDU, October 24, 2012 (Press Trust of India): Thousands of Hindu devotees poured on to the streets of Bangladesh on Wednesday joining processions of Goddess Durga, to mark the culmination of four days of revelry and celebration on Vijay Dashmi. Wearing colorful attires, beating drums and chanting mantras, jubilant devotees celebrated with gusto before immersing statues…