Source: blogs.abc.net.au MELBOURNE, December 12, 2009 (By Margaret Coffey): At the Parliament of the World’s Religions’s Hindu Convocation, the host of the forthcoming International Yoga Festival, Swami Chidanand Saraswati, urged the taking up of yoga. For the good of our health, Swami Saraswati said. He wasn’t the only one advocating the merits of yoga at the Parliament: so were yoga…
Source: www.expressbuzz.com BANGALORE, INDIA, December 10, 2009: The Tamil Nadu State government has decided to extend the annual remuneration facility for temple priests to 3,600 temples and also increase the remuneration to Rs 6,000 (US$129) per year. A priest’s remuneration until today was between Rs 120 to Rs 600 (US$ 2.52 to 12.84) per year. Home Minister V. S. Acharya…
Source: www.colombopage.com COLOMBO, SRI LANKA, December 15, 2009: The historic Keerimalai Naguleswaram Kovil at Kankasanthurai in Northern Sri Lanka’s Jaffna peninsula will be open for Hindu devotees from today. Under a directive from the President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lankan authorities have opened the Kovil for all the pilgrims. The Hindu Kovil had been under military occupation since 1990 and the…
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com BHUBANESWAR, INDIA, December 8, 2009: Jagannath Temple will not change its rules for the President. The bodyguards of the nation’s Supreme Commander, Pratibha Patil, will have to leave behind their guns and pistols at the gate and escort her around the 900-year-old shrine on Wednesday. The temple management has given the President’s staff a list of dos and…
Source: jaibihar.com DEOGHAR/PATNA, INDIA, December 6, 2009: Swami Satyananda Saraswati, the founder of the world famous Bihar School of Yoga (Munger), took Mahasamadhi on Saturday at Rikhia Dham in Deoghar. According to the tradition for Paramahansas, ashodashi puja (sixteen day ritual) will be observed at Rikhiapeeth for Paramahansaji which will culminate in the final puja on December 22. Swami Satyananda…
Source: Press Release MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, December 9, 2009: Vishwaguru Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda was invited to give a keynote address at the Parliament of World Religions in Melbourne, Australia. Swamiji led Mantras and spoke to the Hindu Convocation of Spiritual Leaders, a gathering of most eminent Swamis and Hindu scholars from all over the world. Swami Maheshwarananda said: “If we…
Source: www.indcatholicnews.com LONDON, ENGLAND, November 23, 2009: (HPI note: Our December 12 report on the visit of the Catholic Archbishop to Naesden Hindu temple from a conservative blog of the Telegraph paper in UK failed to convey the noncontroversial nature of this much appreciated outreach and meeting of two great religious traditions. Following is a more balanced report from the…
Source: www.nytimes.com USA, December 13, 2009: The cremation rate has been on a brisk rise in the United States, in part because cremation is cheaper than burial and saves land. But powering a crematorium requires an enormous amount of gas and also sends carbon dioxide and other pollutants skyward. Enter resomation, an alternative to cremation for the eco-conscious cadaver. Resomation…
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Source: www.asiantribune.com WASHINGTON, D.C., December 08, 2009: December: The United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee report, a bipartisan endeavor, on Sri Lanka released December 07 was a thorough review of the failed U.S. policies and approach toward Sri Lanka in recent years and recommends that the U.S. needs to adopt a fresh approach to this South Asian nation declaring “the…