www.army.mod.uk BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND, April 15, 2009: Hindus from England’s three armed forces gathered at Birmingham’s Shree Geeta Bhawan temple on April 8 for the Armed Forces annual Hindu conference. Hosted by Acharya Krishan Kant Attri, Hindu Chaplain to the Armed Forces, the conference brought Hindu service personnel together to hear speakers their own and other faiths. Speakers extolled diversity and…
www.hinduonnet.com MOSCOW, RUSSIA, April 23, 2009: Russia’s former First Lady Naina Yeltsina wants every home in the country to practice yoga for a healthy lifestyle. “I have been practicing yoga for last two years. I think it is indispensable for people above 50. It would be good if it was practiced in every Russian home,” Naina Yeltsina, 77, said at…
worldtamilhinduforum.blogspot.com TAMIL NADU, INDIA, April 21, 2009: [HPI note: this is an article on the importance of feeding devotees during Hindu festivals] In every ethnic and religious community across the Indian subcontinent, no festival or ceremony is complete without annadanam (offering of food), or at least with the distribution of prasadam, the edible items offered during puja. Annadanams are based…
www.hinduismtoday.com In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher. Dalai Lama
shambu@connect.com.fj FIJI, September 13, 2007: Brahman Shiromani Pundit Anant Anand Sharma was re-elected to the post of national president of the Shree Sanatan Dharm Brahman Purohit Sabha of Fiji for a sixteenth consecutive year. The Brahman Sabha is the religious arm of all Sanatan followers in Fiji and consists of Hindu priests. Pundit Sharma who has been preaching since the…
www.newstatesman.com MUMBAI, INDIA, April 23, 2009: It may be hard to credit now, as 700 million voters go to the polls in the world’s biggest elections, but back in the 1940s the wise men of the British Raj predicted that while Pakistan would prosper, India would soon be divided into smaller mutually hostile state. Pakistan, it was thought, would become…
shambu@connect.com.fj FIJI, September 13, 2007: Brahman Shiromani Pundit Anant Anand Sharma was re-elected to the post of national president of the Shree Sanatan Dharm Brahman Purohit Sabha of Fiji for a sixteenth consecutive year. The Brahman Sabha is the religious arm of all Sanatan followers in Fiji and consists of Hindu priests. Pundit Sharma who has been preaching since the…
www.hindu.com MADRID, SPAIN, April 22, 2009: President Pratibha Patil has lauded the role of over 500 “yoga ashrams” in Spain in helping the Spanish have a feel of India. “The links between India and Spain cover many dimensions” Ms. Patil said at the State Banquet hosted in her honour by Spanish King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia here on Tuesday…
Rajiv Malik, HPI Correspondent.DELHI, INDIA, March 23, 2005:
RNS NAIROBI, KENYA, April 23, 2009: A row is simmering between Christians and Muslims in Kenya over reported attempts to convert President Obama’s grandmother, Sarah Obama, to Christianity.”We had invited her to grace our meeting in Kisumu,” Lewis Ondiek, an official with the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Kenya, told Ecumenical News International. “Mama Sarah had assured us that she was…