timesofindia.indiatimes.com TIRUPATI, INDIA, August 3, 2008: The hill temple of Lord Venkateswara wore a deserted look on Friday following solar eclipse. Usually on any given day not less than 60,000 pilgrims throng the hill shrine but on Friday owing to the solar eclipse, few turned up. All the 54 compartments in Vaikuntam Queue Complex-I and II, which are generally occupied…
www.sj-r.com/homepage/x1768859726/ceremonies-slated-for-Hindu-temple SPRIENGFIELD, IL, USA, August 3, 2008. The Hindu Temple of Greater Springfield will be inaugurated in four days of ceremonies starting Monday night at the new temple, 1001 W. Walnut St. in Chatham. Gruha Pravesha Muhurtham, the ceremonial entering of the temple for the first time, will begin at 9 p.m. Monday, following a ribbon-cutting by Chatham Mayor Tom…
www.cnn.com USA, August 4, 2008: The Rev. Paul Earl Sheppard had recently become the senior pastor of a suburban Christian church in California when a group of parishioners came to him with a disturbing personal question. They were worried because the racial makeup of their small church was changing. They warned Sheppard that the church’s newest members would try to…
www.hinduismtoday.com Hindu society has been the meeting point as well as the melting pot of as many spiritual visions as the human psyche is capable of springing up spontaneously. It has been a willing and welcoming platform for as many seers, sages, saints and mystics as have responded to the deeper stirrings in the human soul. It has been a…
www.hinduismtoday.com Intelligence is finite, but stupidity knows no limits. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001)
www.nytimes.com NEW DELHI, INDIA, August 3, 2008: NEW DELHI Nearly 150 pilgrims, many of them children, were trampled to death at a Hindu temple in northern India on Sunday, after rumors of a landslide set off a stampede, local officials said. Thousands of pilgrims had traveled to Naina Devi, a hilltop temple in the state of Himachal Pradesh, for a…
www.oxfordmail.net OXFORD, ENGLAND, August 3, 2008: Oxford could soon have a Hindu temple to add to its churches, mosques and synagogue. Leaders of Oxfordshire’s 500-strong Hindu community have launched a campaign to construct a US$3.9 million, 12,000 square foot temple in the city as they currently have no base for communal prayer. Temple project initiator Jagruti Bhuva, 44, from Kennington,…
www.thedailystar.net JESSORE, INDIA, July 28, 2008: A almost 400-year-old Shiv temple in Jessore is on the point of. This two-storied temple dates back to 1618 and was commissioned in the reign of Raja Manohar. After the downfall of the Raja in 1705, this grand temple began to fall into ruin due to the lack of maintenance. The temple houses beautiful…
p class=”source”/p p class=”summary”/phr /
www.hinduamericanfoundation.org WASHINGTON D.C., July 29, 2008: An ancient Hindu temple located in the mountains on the Cambodia-Thai border is once again at the center of tension between the two neighboring countries.The Preah Vihear Hindu temple complex, a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, saw a buildup of 1200-1500 troops (800-1,000 Cambodian and 400-500 Thai) in and around the large temple complex.…