www.himalayanacademy.com KAUAI, HI, USA, May 27, 2009: Hinduism Today’s insight on Parenting with Love has been translated to French. It teaches how to raise children with a positive self-concept, to be confident and disciplined individuals, bypassing corporal punishment and its pernicious effects on a child’s future psyche. You can download the French version at Source above or read the English…
www.idsn.org May 27, 2009: The very informative Annual Report of the International Dalit Solidarity Network (IDSN) has recently been released at source above. The report contains chapters on the results of IDSN’s work to make e.g. the United Nations, the European Union and the Private Sector act stronger on the issue of caste discrimination worldwide. It also gives an overview…
hamaraphotos.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, May 10, 2009: A finger bone believed to belong to the founder of Buddhism was enshrined earlier this month in a 148-meter-high stupa, the world’s highest, in the ancient Famen Temple in northwest China’s Shaanxi province. The bone, concealed in a golden pagoda-shaped container, was carried past a crowd of 20,000 by senior monks and was…
www.hinduismtoday.com The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and…
www.nzherald.co.nz NEW ZEALAND, May 23, 2009: The number of Indian women reporting dowry abuse has nearly doubled in the past year in new Zealand. The Shakti foundation, which runs four women’s refuges, says an increasing number of callers to its crisis line are from women of Indian origin – and two of every three reports made by these women involved…
www.washingtonpost.com WASHINGTON, DC, USA, May 16, 2009: America’s Public Broadcast System stations may finally begin enforcing one of public television’s basic commandments: Thou shalt not broadcast religious programming. For decades, a few public stations have broadcast local church services and other faith-oriented programs despite the prohibition. Next month the Public Broadcasting Service’s board will decide whether to strip the PBS…
www.hinduonnet.com THE VATICAN, May 20, 2009: Having already established a presence on YouTube, Pope Benedict will soon add a Facebook account as he attempts to keep in touch with Vatican followers worldwide through the online social networking strategy. The Pontiff’s initiative will also involve iPhone applications and a new portal, www.pope2you.net, which is scheduled to go live on May 24.…
HPI KAPAA, HI, USA, May 26, 2009: For those attempting to find @HinduismToday on Twitter, you will unfortunately run into the fact that we do not show up on Twitter’s “people search” because their system has not yet indexed the account. For now, to follow us on Twitter you must go directly to our profile at http://twitter.com/HinduismToday and click the…
www.hinduismtoday.com You don’t stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing.
blog.beliefnet.com USA, May 13, 2009: A study has shown that people who form friendships through their religion are three to four times more likely than others to be better citizens — in terms of secular participation in the community and the government. Harvard University professor Robert Putnam and University of Notre Dame scholar David Campbell discussed their study at a…