WASHINGTON, DC, USA, March 21, 2011 (RNS): The White House is hoping to recruit America’s college and seminary students in a nationwide interfaith service campaign that was launched Thursday (March 17). In the next month, the Obama administration will solicit plans submitted by colleges, universities, seminaries and rabbinical schools for year-long community service projects such as food drives, house building…
UNITED STATES, March 10, 2011: (by Charles Desnoyers) From the time we human beings began to develop a sense of the sacred, mountains have played a central role in our religious experience. Colin Thubron’s latest work, To a Mountain in Tibet, takes us to perhaps the world’s highest pilgrimage site as well as its most popular, sacred to one fifth…
AUSTIN, TEXAS, USA, March 22, 2011: Prakashanand Saraswati, founder of Barsana Dham, was convicted of 20 counts of indecency with a child, sentenced to 14 years in prison on each count and also fined $200,000. He has not been seen ever since the day when he was expected to attend court to hear the verdict, delivered in absentia. The missing…
USA, March 21, 2011 (RNS): Charities are seeing improvements in fundraising, with fewer charities reporting declines in 2010 compared with 2009, according to a report released Tuesday (March 22). But a larger percentage of organizations reported bringing in about the same amount of revenue both years, says the report by the Nonprofit Research Collaborative, a coalition of six organizations that…
CHICAGO, March 21, 2011 (Press Release): Brussels – the capital of the Belgians and of 500,000,000 Europeans – has been chosen as the host city of the Parliament of the World’s Religions in 2014. The selection of Brussels was made by the Board of Trustees of the governing organization at its March 13, 2011 meeting in Chicago. More than 10,000…
AHMEDNAGAR, MAHARASHTRA, March 10, 2011: The management of the Shani-Shingnapure Temple struck down a decades-old tradition of compelling devotees to wear wet ‘lungi’ (sarong) before praying to the Sun God here, an official said. Thousands of devotees welcomed the move, said Shani-Shingnapure Temple Trust Chairman Shivaji Darandale. The trust spokesperson Tuvar Patil said the move would help protect the murti…
It is easy to play with a cobra. It is easy to walk over the fire. It is easy to uproot the Himalayas. But it is difficult to eradicate lust. — Swami Sivananda Saraswati Maharaj, founder of the Divine Life Society in India Source
[HPI note: The link for this announcement yesterday was incorrect. Please here to see the correct travel schedule for Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami.] KAPAA, HAWAII, March 22, 2011: Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, guru mahasannidhanam of Kauai’s Hindu Monastery and publisher of Hinduism Today, is frequently invited to speak at temples and satsangs throughout the US. He will be making a tour of…
Shouting to make your children obey is like using the horn to steer your car, and you get about the same results. Source
KAPAA, HAWAII, March 22, 2011: Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami, guru mahasannidhanam of Kauai’s Hindu Monastery and publisher of Hinduism Today, is frequently invited to speak at temples and satsangs throughout the US. He will be making a tour of Texas, March 24-April 11, with stops in San Antonio, Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston and Midland, as well as Shreveport, Louisiana, and Phoenix,…