Source: dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com MONTREAL, CANADA, June 1, 2009:The World Future Council has just completed a two-day symposium in Montreal in which over 100 experts in international law explored ways to use legal tools to prevent crimes against the future–such crimes as driving species to extinction and continuing to add long-lived greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, which could disrupt climate patterns and…
Source: news.bbc.co.uk ERAIYUR, TAMIL NADU, INDIA, June 12, 2009: Centuries ago, many low-caste Hindus embraced Christianity in hopes of overcoming caste barriers. But in the village of Eraiyur, in Tamil Nadu, not much has changed. The area is dominated by Vanniyar Christians, numbering about 15,000, who own most of the land and businesses and impose restrictions on the 3,000 Dalits,…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man’s injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man’s superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers…
Source: www.dailypioneer.com MUMBAI, INDIA, June 12, 2009: Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati on Friday vehemently opposed the impending visit of United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) to India, by saying that it is a way for “a foreign Government to interfere in the internal affairs of this country”. “Though the Indian Government has permitted USCIRF for sending its delegation…
Source: www.trinidadexpress.com TOBAGO, TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, June 3, 2009: Hindus in Tobago have renewed hopes for a Hindu temple there, following the announcement Saturday by Tobago House of Assembly (THA) Chief Secretary Orville London that talks have restarted between himself and the Tobago Hindu Society. London made the announcement during the Indian Arrival Day celebrations. The Hindu community in Tobago…
Source: mailto:anant.m.vyas@camden.gov.uk BUCKINGHAMSHIRE, U.K., June 12, 2009: [HPI note: A note from a doctor in the UK, alerting to religious issues related to a medical product.] Hindus who may have to undergo Angioplasty with PCI [percutaneous coronary intervention] will experience a procedure that, normally, takes more than four hours of complicated interventions. The patient has to be completely still for…
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, INDIA, June 6, 2009: The Catholic Church in Kerala has issued a pastoral letter urging its flock to keep away from new movements that promise miracles and spread abhorrence for Hinduism. The letter says though the Catholic Church preaches only Jesus, it does not disregard what is true or divine in other religions–and the Bible even teaches…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com I submit to you that the tolerant society is open to and encouraging of all religions. And this does not weaken us; it strengthens us, it makes us strong. You know, if we look back through history to all those great civilizations, those great nations that rose up to even world dominance and then deteriorated, declined and fell,…
Source: www.rediff.com [HPI note: Though CAPEEM’s settlement has been announced earlier, this report is the best and most comprehensive on this issue and can be used as a reference for those involved in it.] CALIFORNIA, USA, June 9, 2009: An organization of Hindu-American parents, which had filed a law suit against California education board alleging that information about Hinduism was…
Source: www.hinduismtoday.com First, let us become gods and then help others to become gods. ‘Be and make.’ Let this be our motto. Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902)