Source: www.spiegel.de BERLIN, GERMANY, September 24, 2010: The Sri Ganesha Temple in Berlin is currently located in a drafty barn-like building with a leaky roof. But the Hindu community dreams of building a suitably grand temple. Construction work has officially begun, even though believing that there will be enough money to finish it requires faith. After years of planning, fund-raising…
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com ALLAHABAD, INDIA, October 9, 2010: The role played by “independent experts” — historians and archaeologists who appeared on behalf of the Waqf Board to support its claim — has come in for criticism by one of the Allahabad High Court judges in the Ayodhya verdict. While the special bench of three judges unanimously dismissed objections raised by the…
Source: thestar.com.my BANGKOK, THAILAND, September 18, 2010: Bangkok is often synonymous with Buddhism, but the savvy traveler and the devout know that the city also has five other Hindu shrines the size of Thailand’s ubiquitous Buddhist Temples.These six shrines honor the Hindu Deities Brahman, Indra, Narayana, Lakshmi, Trimurti Ishvara and Ganesha. It is easy to visit and pray at all…
Source: www.organiser.org NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 10, 2010: Televangelism has come to India with a number of evangelical television channels competing for viewers. In addition to aiding missionaries send their message of conversion, televangelism greatly increases the revenues of the global Christian groups. A research publication “McDonaldisation, Masala McGospel and Om Economics: Televangelism in Contemporary India” by Jonathan D. James…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com The body of Ben Franklin, Printer, like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding, lies here food for worms, but the Work shall not be lost, for it will, as he believed, appear once more in a new and more elegant edition, revised and corrected by the author.…
Source: www.thestar.com TORONTO, CANADA, October 14, 2010: Final rites for a loved one are a serious enough business without the added fear of breaking the law to follow custom. So Canada’s Hindu community has begun releasing a set of guidelines that allow the ancient practice of spreading ashes on water without running afoul of modern environmental concerns. “There was so…
Source: menmedia.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, September 22, 2010: World famous Madame Tussauds has announced it will be marking one of South Asia’s most colorful and popular festivals, as it launched its first ever Diwali weekend in October. Guests at Madame Tussauds enjoyed some of the authentic musical traditions of India, including sitar, flute and tabla players as well as traditional dance…
Source: sify.com BANGALORE, INDIA, September 20, 2010: “Scholars from about 20 countries, including Britain and Germany, are expected to participate in the four-day World Sanskrit Book Fair beginning January 7, 2011”, said M.N. Venkatachalaiah, former chief justice of India and president of the fair’s Advisory Board. Though titled World Sanskrit Book Fair, it will have books in all Indian languages…
Source: www.missionfrontiers.org USA, October 23, 2010: For those interested in the strategy of “inculturation” presently being used by Christian missionaries in India, read this issue of Mission Frontier, the bulletin of the U.S. Center for World Mission here. It details the inculturation strategy of the missionaries with the native American Indian tribes.
Source: www.hindustantimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, October 20, 2010: New physical activity guidelines for Indians say they need almost twice the amount of exercise Westerners need to keep fit because we are genetically at higher risk of developing diabetes, hypertension, cardiac disease and metabolic complications. While the American Diabetic Association prescribes 45 minutes of physical exercise 3-4 times a week, Indians…