www.news4jax.com JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, March 23, 2007: Jacksonville Hindus are delighted that a Hindu temple has been opened in their community. Now the 4,000 Hindus living in Jacksonville have a place to pray and worship. The news release explained, “On Friday, Hindu priests and others were busy readying the temple, which is located on Greenland Road in Mandarin. A ceremony was…
www.iht.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, March 30, 2007: Islamic countries pushed through a resolution at the U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday urging a global prohibition on the public defamation of religion — a response largely to the furor last year over caricatures published in a Danish newspaper of the Muslim Prophet Muhammad. The statement proposed by the Organization of Islamic Conference…
Press Release DELHI, INDIA, March 31, 2007: Ramakrishna Mission New Delhi is deeply aggrieved to announce the passing away of Swami Gokulanandaji, senior monk of the Ramakrishna Order and Head of the New Delhi Centre, who breathed his last at Sir Gangaram Hospital around 10:25 AM on March 31, 2007. He was 79. He was admitted to the hospital for…
in.today.reuters.com KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, March 31, 2007: A Malaysian court has taken the rare step of ordering a Muslim man not to go ahead with plans to convert his baby son to Islam, pending a last-ditch legal effort by the Hindu mother to take custody of the boy. The Court of Appeal, which usually defers jurisdiction in religious matters to…
www.dundasstarnews.com DUNDAS, ONTARIO, CANADA, March 23, 2007: A new community-based anti-racism group has emerged from the arson of the Hindu Samaj Temple. Hamilton’s political, social and business community came out in force this week to welcome the creation of the Hamilton Centre for Civic inclusion (HCCI). The center is the merging of two community groups Strengthening of Hamilton’s Community Initiative…
www.hindu.com MADHUBANI, INDIA, March 29, 2007: Rishiprada, a five-year old girl from Raima village in Madhubani District, Bihar, has memorized the entire Bhagavad Gita; she also knows many other Sanskrit verses that she recites with full clarity of the language. Dr. Awadhesh Prasad Chaudhary, Rishiparada’s great grandfather said she has been fond of learning verses which in turn prompted him…
www.hinduamericanfoundation.org WASHINGTON, D.C.,March 29, 2007: The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) welcomed the introduction of House Resolution 245, recognizing the festival of Diwali, or Deepavali as it is known in Sanskrit. The resolution recognizing the significance of the festival in the religious and cultural life of over two million Hindus, Sikhs and Jains in the United States was referred to the…
www.dailymail.co.uk PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, March 28, 2007: A mysterious giant hexagon lies above Saturn’s north pole, captured by cameras on Nasa’s Cassini Orbiter. Spanning 25,000km — equivalent to the width of two planet Earths — the bizarre geometric feature appears to remain virtually still in the atmosphere as clouds swirl around it. The infra-red images show the hexagon — which contains…
www.becomingme.com UNITED STATES, March 28, 2007: A children’s book entitled “Becoming Me — a Story of Creation,” reviewed by Hinduism Today in 2001, here, has morphed from a hard copy book into a nice little six-minute video set to music. Using the Ken Burn’s Effect, the colorful art the book is so noted for shines brightly while a narrator gently…
www.cbc.ca TORONTO, CANADA, March 29, 2007: Driven by the desire to customize funerals for their communities, a new wave of funeral directors catering to all ethnic backgrounds, including Indian, is entering the business of death in Toronto. “There’s an untapped niche I think that they can fill,” said Jeff Caldwell, who directs the two-year funeral service education program at Humber…