Source: HPI KAUAI, HI, December 29, 2009: Which festivals do you celebrate? Hinduism Today would like to know which celebrations American Hindus and their communities observe. Please tell us by clicking here. Thank you.
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Religion offered nothing to the point. When I discovered reincarnation … time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock. American auto industrialist Henry Ford
Source: www.baptiststandard.com HOUSTON, TX, USA, December 29, 2009: [HPI note: After a long series of tribulations, including expulsion from their home country and long nineteen years in provisory refugee camps as citizens of nowhere, Hindus originally from Bhutan are coming to Armerica (read the article about it on Hinduism Today here). But, unfamiliar with the new country and western ways,…
Source: www.antara.co.id DENPASAR, BALI, December 25, 2009: Bali-India Foundation will hold its second International Yoga Festival in Bali from March 3-10, 2010. The theme of the festival is “Yoga and Global Warming Issues.” Half of the expected 1,500 participants will come from India, European countries, the USA and Asian regions, and the others from Oceania. The festival will take place…
Source: blogs.abc.net.au MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, December 13, 2009: (by Margaret Coffey) I think back on the Hindu Convocation and its production of a Hindu Statement for Copenhagen. Key people in the organization and management of that final “Om” [chanted to mark that those present were in agreement with the Hindu Manifesto on Climate Change] are associated with the journal [magazine] Hinduism…
Source: guardian.co.tt TRINIDAD/TOBAGO, December 24, 2009: The Tobago House of Assembly’s executive council gave the final approval to hand over a parcel of land for the construction of a Hindu Temple on the sister island. This announcement was made by Orville London, the Chief Secretary, when he opened classes in drumming, Indian dance and vocals on Friday. London said the…
Source: www.huffingtonpost.com COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO, December 2009: The Air Force Academy says religious tolerance has improved dramatically since allegations five years ago that evangelical Christians harassed cadets who didn’t share their faith. Even the school’s most vocal critic agrees. “This is the first time we feel positive about things there,” said Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation,…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com The art of teaching is tolerance. And humility is the art of learning. BKS Iyengar, famed teacher instrumental in bringing hatha yoga to the West
Source: tamilweek.com SRI LANKA, December 15, 2009: The Iyappan temple in Vampivattan, Udappu is believed to be the first Iyappan temple to be built in Sri Lanka. The season to climb Sabarimalai and worship Lord Iyappan has just begun. Devotees in black attire have gathered in Colombo to get visa’s for travel to India during the season which ends in…
Source: www.vkendra.org INDIA, December 7, 2009: A grand ceremony which marked the inauguration of Vivekananda International Foundation. Mata Amritanandamayi was the main guest of the inauguration ceremony. Justice M.N Venkatachaliah, the former Chief Justice of India, delivered the keynote address. Shri Ajit Doval, the honourary Director of Vivekananda International Foundation gave a brief introduction of the Foundation and its objectives.…