{"id":19438,"date":"2023-04-09T04:51:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-09T04:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/?p=19438"},"modified":"2023-04-09T04:51:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-09T04:51:38","slug":"hindu-spiritual-leaders-will-demand-removal-of-governments-from-temple-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2023\/04\/09\/hindu-spiritual-leaders-will-demand-removal-of-governments-from-temple-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Hindu Spiritual Leaders Will Demand Removal of Governments From Temple Management"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>INDIA, April 4, 2023 (Pipa News): Hindu spiritual heads from across the country participating in a religious congregation in Ahmedabad on Monday made a list of demands, including demands from governments to \u201cexit temples (management)\u201d and a \u201ccompulsory moral code.\u201d  Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah and RSS Sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat participated in the program organized at Shivanand Ashram in Ahmedabad. According to a release from the Hindu Dharmacharya Sabha, issues related to \u201cchallenges faced by the Hindu community\u201d were discussed, where the religious heads felt that the content of social media, OTT (platforms) and films spread distorted information on Sanatan Dharma. has been and is \u201cdeformed sexual content\u201d leading to crimes against women. There is a dire need to educate the youth about the true meaning and practices of Sanatana Dharma, he added.<br><br>The congregation also felt that money from Hindu temples should be for \u201cHindu causes only.\u201d The release said, \u201cMany ancient temples have been encroached upon by state governments and the funds are mostly misused. The Acharya Sabha wishes that the government should step out of the temples and allow the communities to manage them as has been done for many centuries. According to the congregation, \u201cthere is a gradual erosion of fundamental rights under the Constitution, while equal rights, in particular to establish and manage charitable and educational institutions, have been extended to minorities.\u201d The congregation also opposed the \u201cperception\u201d that \u201cHinduism is a way of life\u201d and that \u201cit does not do justice to the vast body of knowledge\u201d.<br><br>More at source.<br><em>https:\/\/pipanews.com\/hindu-spiritual-leaders-will-demand-removal-of-governments-from-temple-management-pipa-news\/<br><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDIA, April 4, 2023 (Pipa News): Hindu spiritual heads from across the country participating in a religious congregation in Ahmedabad,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19444,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19438\/revisions\/19444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}