worldsreligionsjamia.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 17, 2008: The congress on “World’s Religions After September 11 – An Asian Perspective” will meet in New Delhi from January 17-20, 2009 at the Jamia Millia Islamia University campus. The Congress is being hosted by the recently established Center for the Study of Comparative Religion and Civilizations at the university. This Congress is a…
www.thestatesman.net NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 13, 2008: The VHP’s central governing body will deliberate on ways to further intensify their campaign against religious conversion in Kandhamal, Orissa, and north-eastern states at its two-day brain storming session beginning on 25 September. About 300 leaders from across the country, Shankaracharya and top VHP leaders will take part in the meeting, VHP sources…
www.sindhtoday.net AHMEDABAD, INDIA, September 14, 2008: Gujarat’s biggest religious congregation is happening at Ambaji, with over 600,000 pilgrims visiting the temple town in just four days. “The authorities are expecting about 2.5 million pilgrims to take part in the congregation,” said P.K. Jadeja, the administrator of the Ambaji temple, about 124 miles from here. Volunteers from Mumbai, Surat, Ahmedabad and…
Source: Press Release HOUSTON, TEXAS, USA, September 17, 2008: In the wake of Hurricane Ike, Hindu temples have been stepping forward to help those in need. The BAPS Swaminarayan Temple in Stafford was open on Sunday and served food to over 500 people. BAPS volunteers also served 400 hot meals at a Stafford shelter which has been set up by…
www.hinducouncil.com.au SYDNEY, Australia, September 16, 2008: Global warming has become the most critical issue facing humanity. It is the duty of each of us to do whatever we can to reduce the effects of climate change. But very few are willing to address the touchy subject of emissions resulting from meat production. One of the biggest contributors to environmental degradation…
www.hindu.com TIRUCHI, TAMIL NADU, INDIA, September 16, 2008: Two 13th century inscriptions have been found at the Meenakshisundareswarar temple at Thuvarankurichi during its renovation. The Pandya inscriptions were found during a field study carried out byresearch scholars of the Dr. M. Rajamanickkanar Centre for HistoricalResearch, Tiruchi, One of the two inscriptions refers to Thuvarapathi Velar, who had held sway in…
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Source: HPI PORT LOUIS, MAURITIUS, September 12, 2008: Sunday, September 14 will see the long-awaited Maha Kumbhabhishekam of the Bala Dhandayudapanee Tirukovil on Monneron Hill, in the Vallee Pitot region of Port Louis. Since 1961, members of the local Tamil community have been worshipping and observing their festivals in the nearby Gupteswarnath Mandir, thanks to the generosity of its owner…
www.telegraph.co.uk UK, September 08, 2008: Sikh and Hindu leaders have complained that the BBC has made a disproportionate number of programs about Islam, at the expense of programs on their own faiths. The Network of Sikh Organisations has analyzed the programs from the BBC’s Religion and Ethics department and found that since 2001, the BBC has made 41 programs on…
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