www.fibre2fashion.com INDIA, April 07, 2009: [HPI note: This intriguing press release announces clothing with drawings of Hindu Gods on them, made of small crystals. They will be sold in London, New York, Shanghai and Austria.] Swarovski is delighted to announce an exciting new collaboration with award-winning Delhi-based designer Manish Arora. This scintillating partnership sees India’s best-loved and most prolific design…
www.telegraph.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, April 3, 2009: The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) said schools should be free to celebrate Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu and Sikh religious festivals every few weeks instead of staging a daily assembly and singing hymns. Under existing legislation, all state schools in England and Wales are supposed to have daily worship of a “broadly Christian…
www.hinduismtoday.com I hold that the more helpless a creature is, the more entitled it is to protection from the cruelty of man. Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
voices.washingtonpost.com WASHINGTON, DC, USA, April 6, 2009 (with RNS): The White House today announced ten more members of the council that will advise the president on faith-based and other key issues, such as fatherhood and poverty. The additions bring the council’s ranks to 24 religious and secular leaders. The office is meant primarily to support faith-based groups, including by helping…
RNS WASHINGTON, DC, USA, April 6, 2009: Advisers tapped to help guide the White House’s revamped faith-based office say their role is still evolving as the initiative expands its portfolio and tries to find its footing in the young Obama administration. While some viewed the Bush administration’s efforts mostly as a one-way directive on how to expand the reach of…
HPI/Paras Ramoutar TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, April 9, 2009: Hindus in Trinidad and Tobago will join in the international observance of Lord Hanuman Jayanti, the day He took human form on earth. Lord Hanuman or the “Monkey God” is credited as being the ideal and model servant in any civilization. He is the personal confidante of Lord Rama, the major player…
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www.hinducounciluk.org LONDON, UK, April 4, 2009: The birthday of Lord Rama was celebrated at the House of Commons on Monday, as the Members’ Dining Room was turned into a Mandir for the afternoon. Over 200 invited guests sang bhajans and watched Aarti performed by two young children, as Hindus from many different traditions celebrated the festival beneath the flag of…
RNS LONDON, UK, April 5, 2009: A secular organization in Britain that backs an atheist ad campaign on London’s buses is now producing “certificates of de-baptism” for people wishing to renounce their Christian faith — and claims it is getting thousands of takers. The National Secular Society says more than 100,000 ex-worshippers have downloaded the de-baptism certificates from its Web…
www.hinduismtoday.com He creates the Universe and then reveals Himself to us and in us. He made Himself manifest. Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh scripture