Source USA, November 19, 2013 (Wall Street Journal): Since the mid-1990s, the share of people 65 years old and over living with their children or other relatives in the United States has risen from around 6.6% to 7.3% in 2013, according to an analysis of data from the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey by Jed Kolko, chief economist at Trulia,…
Source AUSTRALIA, November 2013 (press release): Bushfires raging in the Blue Mountains around Sydney as early as October is being seen by Hindu community leaders as a call to action. This call is the subject of the Hindu Climate Change Action Kit, jointly published by the Australian Religious Response to Climate Change (ARRCC) and the Hindu Council of Australia, and…
Source You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God’s creative principle works in you.— Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), founder of Self Realization Fellowship
Press Release CANADA, October 2, 2013 (Canadian Public Opinion Poll): The last of three national surveys about values and religion in Canada shows English and French Canadians most favorable towards Christianity and least favorable towards Islam. Favorability of all religions is down since 2009. The results from the last of three comprehensive national surveys about religion, religious freedom and values…
Source FIJI, November 19, 2013 (Fiji Sun): The Vishwa Hindu Parishad Fiji says comments by Cook Islands bishop, Tutai Pere, condemning Diwali celebrations held in the island nation are saddening. VHP Fiji national president Jay Dayal said the bishop was forgetting the values of Christianity. “At the same time, we in Fiji are fortunate and so ever thankful to our…
Source There are three kinds of devotees. The inferior devotee says, “God is out there” and thinks God is different from His creation. The mediocre devotee says, “God is antaryami, the inner guide who dwells in everyone’s heart;” thus the mediocre devotee sees God within. But the superior devotee sees that God alone is everything, for He has become the…
Source UNITED STATES, November 15, 2013 (the Hindu): U.S. officials are destroying more than six tons of confiscated ivory tusks, carvings and jewelry — the bulk of the country’s “blood ivory” stockpile — to support the fight against a $10 billion global trade that slaughters tens of thousands of elephants each year. Officials on Thursday used rock crushers to pulverize…
Source UNITED STATES, November 11, 2013 (Huffington Post): India has been described by some traditional texts as Sa Prathama Sanskrati Vishvavara, the first and supreme culture in the world. To this day, the South Asian country remains a hotspring of ancient wisdom on mind-body health and spirituality. This wisdom has been steadily permeating American life for the past century. Mindfulness…
Source INDIA, October 24, 2013 (Hindustan Times by Saudamini Jain): Ramnagar, on the banks of the Ganga, opposite Varanasi, was the capital of the former princely state of Banaras. It is now a dilapidated town — best known for its nearly-200-year-old Ramlila, the longest in the world. This Ramlila begins in September or October on Anant Chaturdashi and ends 31…
Press Release BELIZE, November 15, 2013 (Press Release): Following the sporadic series of conferences on the Indian Diaspora in the Caribbean since 1975 held mainly in Trinidad and Tobago, there is a plan to organize one conference every year in various parts of the region. Next year’s conference will be held in Belize from August 5 to 11, 2014 on…