Source: www.theasiannews.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, September 19, 2009: Colorful statutes of some of the most important Hindu Gods are due to arrive from Kolkata in India to Manchester next week. They will form part of the centerpiece of one of the most significant religious Hindu festivals in the city, Durga Puja. The star of the five-day event, taking place between 24-28…
Source: www.merinews.com MARYLAND, U.S.A., September 17, 2009: Hindu Mandir (Temple) Executives representing 111 temples and Hindu organizations from more than 25 states of U.S. and Canada converged in Lithicum, MD, a suburb of Washington, DC, to attend the Fourth annual Hindu Mandir Executives Conference (HMEC), this week. The fourth annual HMEC-2009, was another step in the development of network and…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com An old brahmin priest spoke with his Lord Siva about heaven and hell (which is called Narakaloka in Sanskrit and differs from other hells in not being eternal, but a temporary state of souls between births). The Lord said to the aging pandit, “Come, I will show you hell.” They entered a room where a group of people…
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA, September 8, 2009: At a hearing of a writ petition on Monday, a two-member bench of the AP High Court directed authorities to maintain status quo on government funds for building or repairing churches. The petition, filed by Tripuraneni Hanuman Chowdary, complained that the state government was engaging itself in the promotion of a religion…
Source: Source: www.burmalibrary.org/docs6/NLM2009-01-23.pdf YANGON, MYANMAR, January 23, 2009 — A free clinic founded by Tamil Hindu Religious Trust Fund was opened in Yankin Township on 18 January. Located at No. 66, Building No. 2 on Mogaung Road in Yankin Township, the clinic is open from 10 am to noon daily except Sundays and gazetted holidays. Those wishing to donate medicines…
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Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Youth are blamed for being careless and useless, but in reality I feel that they are cared for less and are used less, and as a result the costliest resources of the society are getting wasted. Brahmachari Atma Chaitanya of Chinmaya Mission, Kerala
Source: www.google.com SHAH ALAM, MALAYSIA, September 18, 2009: Six Malaysian Muslims have been charged with sedition for parading the severed head of a cow–the holiest animal in Hinduism–to protest the planned construction of a Hindu temple. The men were charged Wednesday in a district court in Shah Alam, the capital of Selangor state, where they had marched with the cow…
Source: newsweek.washingtonpost.com TEXAS, September 1, 2009: (HPI note: The Washington Post invited Aseem Shukla to offer a Hindu point of view on the curriculum revision now under way in Texas.) Post introduction: “The Texas Board of Education, the nation’s second largest purchaser of public school textbooks, is revising its K-12 social studies curriculum and deciding how to characterize religion’s influence…
Source: www.clicanoo.com REUNION, September 7, 2009: The Hindu temple of Colosse near St. Andre on Reunion Island has celebrated its kumbhabhishekam. A thousand worshippers attended the three-day consecration organized by the Pandialee Association. Many dignitaries were present for the big day, including the Consul of India (RS Badwal), the mayor of Saint-Andre (Eric Fruteau), the president of the Federation of…