Source: news.bbc.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, July 30, 2009: Divorce has a lingering, detrimental impact on health that even remarriage cannot fully repair, a study suggests. The Chicago study involving 8,652 people aged 51 to 61 found divorced people have 20% more chronic illnesses such as cancer than those who never marry. The figure only drops to 12% for those who remarry,…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Whenever possible, it is always good to act in kindness. It is always possible. The Dalai Lama
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com Religious worship is not directed to images in themselves, considered as mere things, but under their distinctive aspect as images leading us on to God incarnate. The movement toward the image does not terminate in it as image, but tends toward that whose image it is. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Catholic philosopher, theologian
Source: www.chron.com HOUSTON, TEXAS, USA, July 22, 2009: In the early 1990s, Hindus in Bhutan were banned from speaking their language and practicing their religion. This ethnic and religious persecution forced 100,000 to flee to Nepal, where they have lived in refugee camps for 19 years. A resettlement program started last year by the U.S. State Department is expected to…
Source: www.laprovincia.es CANARY ISLANDS, June 30, 2009: At the end of June, fifty members of the Hindu community of Spain’s Canary Islands ceremoniously handed over 7,000 kilos of food to the Catholic diocese of the Virgin del Pino, patroness of the Canary Islands, to be distributed to the needy. The country is mostly Catholic, and Hindus are willing to help…
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com INDIA, July 24, 2009: Modern science has substantiated the extraordinary healing power of turmeric. A team of scientists led by Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy , an IIT Kanpur alumnus and a professor of chemistry and biophysics at the University of Michigan, has deciphered the exact functioning of curcumin, a major ingredient of turmeric powder, in curing wounds, infections and other…
Source: news.bbc.co.uk INDIA, July 26, 2009: Environmental campaigner Bianca Jagger has called on the Church of England to rethink its investment policy. At issue is the Church’s $4.1m investment in a company which intends to mine a mountain in India that is considered sacred by the tribe that lives there. “I appeal to the Church of England to realize that…
Source: www.nytimes.com MUMBAI, INDIA, July 20, 2009: Like many Indians who came of age in the 1980s, Samir Patil grew up on the comic books published by Amar Chitra Katha. Made up of Indian-style religious parables and biographies of historical figures, they taught him about the great, and lesser-known, stories of India in a didactic format meant for young audiences.…
Source: news.bbc.co.uk BALI, July 26, 2009: Balinese food is exquisite. It is a blessing to be shared with the Gods, and never taken for granted. All over the island, even on taxicab dashboards, one sees little woven baskets called banten jotan containing tiny colorful offerings of rice, fruit and flowers to the Gods. Ritual worship interwoven with daily life is…
Source: www.mywtxchatter.com MIDLAND, TEXAS, USA, July 26, 2009: “If your parents ever advised you to avoid conversations about religion and politics, well, I hope you didn’t listen to them” is what a witty advertisement for the My West Texas, a newspaper, says. Intent on engaging the diverse local community, it created a religion page on its website to ” give…