HOUSTON, TEXAS, August 20, 2024 (Religion News Service): As the school year begins, many children around the country fondly look back at their time spent at summer camp making arts and crafts, playing dodgeball or performing in an end-of-camp talent show. But for the kids who attended the Houston area’s annual Hindu Heritage Youth Camp, this year’s camp was memorable…
QUEBEC, CANADA, August 18, 2024 (You Tube): The Montreal Murugan Temple was established in 1983 and was the first Saivite temple in the province of Quebec, Canada, established in 1983. The recently-held Chariot Festival was an elaborate event featuring several nadaswaram players and drummers, multiple priests, and thousands of devotees in attendance. This incredible four-hour video gives an up close…
INDIA, August 20, 2024 (Business-Standard): India emerged as the leading country of origin and destination for Hindu migrants globally in 2020, with 7.6 million Hindus born in India now living elsewhere and about three million Hindus born in other countries living in India, according to a new analysis by the Pew Research Center. The report titled “The Religious Composition of…
KAUAI, HAWAII, August 9, 2024 (Hinduism Today): Holi is wild and raucous, a frolic of friendly playfulness. During Holi, India’s streets are overtaken by crowds awash with colored powder. Not only clothes, but faces, arms and hair are smeared and sprayed with every color of the rainbow. People sing, dance, play, hug each other and smile with such child-like joy…
INDIA, August 11, 2024 (The Federal): The over 150,000 archakas (temple priests) in Karnataka, who come under the state department of Religious and Charitable Endowments, have sent a memorandum to the Siddaramaiah government. They want the practice of allowing devotees to book prasadam (religious offering to the Gods) online through temple apps discontinued. The Karnataka government has promised to address…
UNITED STATES, August 10, 2024 (New India Abroad): Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, who has read a record 312 Hindu invocations in legislative bodies in 44 US states and Canada, delivered the opening prayer in the United States Senate in Washington DC for the second time last month. It was a watershed moment in July 2007 when Zed, president of the…
KAUAI, HAWAII, August 15, 2024 (Hinduism Today): Mahasivaratri is the most important festival dedicated to Lord Siva. This holy day is observed by millions of Hindus all over the world. It is one of Hinduism’s most esoteric holy days, when yoga practices, mantras and meditation take the devotee closer to God’s essence within the core of himself. Hindus typically fast,…
AYODHYA, INDIA, August 12, 2024 (Free Press Journal): The Ram Mandir Trust has witnessed an overwhelming outpouring of devotion, receiving over US$655 million in donations since the Bhoomi Pujan (groundbreaking ceremony) for the grand Ram Mandir on August 5, 2020. “This historic temple, dedicated to Lord Ram, has become a focal point for Hindu devotees worldwide, with donations continuing to…
PRAYAGRAJ, INDIA August 8, 2024 (Hindustan Times): The much awaited annual occurrence of the Ganga entering the Bade Hanuman Temple during the monsoons took place in Sangam City on Wednesday morning. As the river water entered the premises of the temple, devotees started chanting slogans in praise of Lord Hanuman and Maa Ganga. The temple’s head Mahant Balbir Giri said…
KAUAI, HAWAII, August 14, 2024 (Hinduism Today): Millions of Hindu women consider Navaratri the year’s central festival, the one they most deeply connect to. These nine days dedicated to Shakti, the Goddess, provide an opportunity to seek blessings and commune with their own divinity. It is a time for sacred gatherings, austerities, selfless acts and intimate prayers. But Navaratri is…
