HPI A simple devotional action performed by Hindus in front of Lord Ganesha from time immemorial is now being researched and enthusiastically promoted in the West as “Super Brain Yoga.” Students, Alzheimers patients and adults trying to stave off memory loss are saying it has improved their mental faculties. Dr. Eric Robins, a medical doctor in Los Angeles, calls it…
www.appeal-democrat.com YUBA CITY, CALIFORNIA, USA, March 8, 2009: Kushlia Devi Hunji’s last desire was to have a Hindu temple built in Yuba City for residents to visit and pray. “She would be very proud today,” said her daughter Ablasha Hunji Thomas on Saturday. Several dozen Hindu residents gathered in the Sri Narayan Hindu Temple in prayer and thanks to celebrate…
RNS VATICAN, March 17, 2009: For the past two months, the Catholic Church has been overcome by one fairly straightforward question: Why didn’t the pope know that the bishop he welcomed back into the church had extremist views that would cause so much embarrassment? Last week, the pope had an answer. He hadn’t Googled it. “I have been told,” Pope…
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www.hindu.com TIRUMALA, ANDRHRA PRADESH, INDIA, March 14, 2009: The long-anticipated project of providing gold plating to the famous hill temple of Lord Venkateswara began on a grand note on an auspicious hour Friday, as temple priests conducted special pujas to the golden Lakshmi image near the main sanctum. The project, which will convert the entire temple and its precincts into…
indianrealist.wordpress.com AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND, March 8, 2009: The Global Human Rights Defense has just published its annual report on human rights violations in Bangladesh. The report documents atrocities perpetrated on the Hindu minority in 2008. Before Bangladesh became a separate country, the Enemy Property Act of 1965 was passed. This law allowed the confiscation of property owned by non-Muslims, considering them…
www.medicalnewstoday.com FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, US, March 12, 2009: Like adults, kids who are more spiritual or religious tend to be healthier. So says Dr. Barry Nierenberg, Ph.D., ABPP, associate professor of psychology at Nova Southeastern University, who has been studying the relationship between faith and health. Nierenberg spoke recently at a national conference of the American Psychological Association’s Division of…
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www.oxfordmail.co.uk (HPI note: HPI brings to the reader today news about Holi’s celebrations from a few of the gatherings all around the world where Hindus reveled in this colorful festival. Two articles highlight the fast rate of growth of Hindu temples and centers in diasporic communities.) SOUTH OXFORD, ENGLAND, March 13, 2007: Oxfordshire’s Hindu community has organized a Holi Festival…
www.news-journalonline.com DAYTONA BEACH, FLORIDA, March 14, 2009: Bright colors, jubilation and prayer chants filled a crowded little temple on Madison Avenue this week, as local Hindu people celebrated Holi festivities under bright moonlight. The day after the full moon in the Hindu month of Phalguna, or early March, Indian people gather together merrymaking, eating and congregating to welcome the spring…