Source: blogs.reuters.com December 8, 2009: (By Paul Knitter, Professor of Theology, World Religions and Culture at Union Theological Seminary in New York and Matthew Weiner, Program Director at the Interfaith Center of New York.) In 1893, the Chicago Parliament of World Religions was convened to gather the world’s faiths together for the first time. The organizers had a subversive message…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, December 9, 2009: The Hindu Declaration on Climate Change adopted yesterday at the Parliament of the World’s Religions is available in PDF form at the link above (also repeated below as a text file). The Declaration is of particular relevance at this moment as the world’s leaders gather for the United Nations Climate Change Conference in…
Source: blogs.abc.net.au MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, December 8, 2009: An unprecedented assembly of Hindu Spiritual Leaders at the PWR has issued a Hindu Declaration on Climate Change. “It is a matter of survival,” says the Declaration; “we cannot continue to destroy nature without also destroying ourselves.” All morning the Hindu Convocation has been meeting, with one seer after another rising to deliver…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Mark Twain visited India over a century ago and commented that Varanasi was …older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together.
Source: HPI [SPECIAL HPI ANNOUNCEMENT] MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, December 8, 2009: Melbourne’s Parliament of the World’s Religions is proving to be the most influential of modern times, and the widest ever. Hindus have shown unity and extraordinary leadership releasing today the Hindu Declaration on Climate Change, marking a definitive stance of Hinduism as a religion that is aware of humankind’s role…
Source: HPI [SPECIAL HPI ANNOUNCEMENT] MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, December 8, 2009: Melbourne’s Parliament of the World’s Religions is proving to be the most influential of modern times, and the widest ever. Hindus have shown unity and extraordinary leadership releasing today the Hindu Declaration on Climate Change, marking a definitive stance of Hinduism as a religion that is aware of humankind’s role…
Source: HPI NEW DELHI, INDIA, December 5, 2009 (by Rajiv Malik): “I am so happy that such an institution has arisen in the name of Swami Vivekananda for the sake of inter religious cooperation and unity, and for portraying the values of Sanatana Dharma on a global level.” These views were expressed by Revered Mata Amritanandamayi, while delivering her benedictory…
Source: www.smh.com.au MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA, December 7, 2009: The Parliament of the World’s Religions is sending a 60-meter-long scroll inscribed with thousands of messages of support and hope to Copenhagen. In it, visitors, monks, priests and people from all walks of life write about their hopes –and fears– for Earth’s future. Today, 192 nations begin the UN climate conference in Copenhagen,…
Source: www.hafsite.org WASHINGTON, DC, November 27, 2009: The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) described the mass slaughter of animals at the Gadhimai Temple in Nepal, which began on November 24, 2009, as grotesque and nearly unrecognizable in the practice of mainstream Hinduism today. While “yagna,” the ritual of sacrifice in which oblations are offered to the Divine Agni (fire), is acknowledged…
Source: lite.epaper.timesofindia.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, December 4, 2009: Taking grandmas home remedies to a grander level, ayurvedic cooking – all about the right mix of spices and foods is the new buzz in the kitchen. Cooking the ayurveda way is sheer chemistry: Food properties, what type goes with which spice, how to snap the time, temperature and mix right and…