Source UNITED KINGDOM, November 24, 2015 (BBC): As the Paris Conference of the Parties (COP21) draws near, the international spotlight is more focused on climate change than at any time since the Copenhagen talks of 2009. But amid all the talk of decarbonizing energy and transport systems, one crucial area remains in the shadows. The livestock sector produces about 15%…
Source The practice of yoga is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in the world, to effect a spiritual transformation and to bring down a divine nature into the life of humanity. It is not personal ananda, but the bringing down of the divine ananda, the Satya…
Source ENGLAND, November 27, 2015 (BBC): Religious belief has changed sharply in recent years but religious education has not kept pace, says the Goldsmiths, University of London, report. “Content should reflect the real religious landscape,” said co-author Prof. Adam Dinham. The report comes after a High Court ruling that the government made “an error of law” in leaving “non-religious world…
Source INDIA, November 27, 2015 (Sadhu Vaswani): Every year, November 25th, Sadhu Vaswani’s birthday, is celebrated as International Meatless Day and the number of pledges and supporters are growing increasingly. This year pledges were received from all across the globe including; Germany, Spain, London, St. Maarten, Casablanca, Singapore, and the West Indies. A total of 2,731,424 people pledged to observe…
Source We who have come from the East here have been told day after day in a patronizing way that we ought to accept Christianity because Christian nations are the most prosperous. We look about us and see England as the most prosperous nation in the world, with her foot on the neck of 250 million Asiatics. We look back…
Source UNITED STATES, November 23, 2015 (Press Release): Over 60 Hindu leaders and organisations have signed the Hindu Declaration on Climate Change issued today, calling for action from the world’s 900 million Hindus and the 196 governments meeting in Paris from November 30 to December 11 at the 21st Conference of Contracting Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate…
Source PENNSYLVANIA, November 15, 2015 (Bi-College News): A recent disagreement over the presence of religious statues in the Prayer Room in Aelwyd, the Religious House on Cambrian Row, has led the Interfaith Council of Bryn Mawr College to reexamine the way in which different faith groups could best utilize the non-denominational prayer space. The Interfaith Council was officially established this…
Source OTTAWA, CANADA, November 22, 2015 (CBC News): A yoga instructor who says her free class at the University of Ottawa was cancelled because of concerns over cultural appropriation believes the student union’s issues are misplaced. Cultural appropriation is when a culture that’s seen as an oppressor borrows or steals elements of a culture they’re oppressing. Scharf said there is…
Source In the house of the seer there are five cows (the five senses), which without a cowherd wander everywhere. If they were controlled and their thirst quenched, they would give milk.— Tirumantiram, a sacred mystical treatise by Rishi Tirumular.
Source VARANASI, INDIA, November 23, 2015 (The News Minute): Foreign women visitors wearing short dresses to the Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Varanasi will now be advised to wear a sari while entering the temple according to an order issued by the temple trust, The Times of India reported. Though there won’t be a dress code, but female visitors, especially foreigners,…