www.spiegel.de HANOVER, GERMANY, March 23, 2009: The Sri Muthumariamman Temple–the largest Hindu temple in northern Germany–opened Sunday with a purifying fire ceremony that started before sunrise. A Hindu high priest from Canada performed the ritual blessings, and a calf loaned by a local farmer served as a holy presence. Built by the 300-member Tamil Hindu Cultural Association, the new temple…
pakteahouse.wordpress.com PAKISTAN, March 18, 2009: The Sari in Pakistan did a disappearing act after it was declared un-Islamic. But the whole six yards has made a comeback in the form of formal wear as well as in the trousseaus of Pakistani girls. Therefore, Pakistan is seeing the resurgence of the Saris in a big way. Today the strong revival of…
www.boston.com USA, February 28, 2009: In honor of March as Women’s History Month, the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life took a look back at its U.S. Religious Landscape Survey to see what it shows about differences in religiosity between men and women. Not surprisingly, given all of what we know about who shows up at worship…
www.hinduismtoday.com Everybody knows that we have five senses. But there is one more sense–the sixth sense which is common sense, which should be devoid of nonsense. Swami Adhyatmananda of the Divine Life Society
www.duniyalive.com LONDON, ENGLAND, March 21, 2009: An aging Hindu residing in Britain is fighting for the right to have a natural cremation on a funeral pyre, per Hindu tradition. Government lawyers are contending this would be abhorrent to the majority of the British population. Davender Kumar Ghai, a devout 70-year-old Hindu who has lived in Britain since 1958, is the…
www.expressbuzz.com COLOMBO, SRI LANKA, March 20, 2009: The Sri Lankan government told the nation’s Parliament on Thursday that it had decided to declare Kachchativu Island (midway between Sri Lanka and India in the Palk Strait) as a sacred area in view of the fact that it was a centre for the worship of St Anthony, the patron saint of fishermen…
HPI USA, March 22, 2009: Pastors tend to expect increased church attendance when times are hard; but a poll by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life indicates that the present recession is not following that pattern. Though the stock market has dropped precipitously over the last two years, the percentage of Americans attending worship services at least weekly…
www.hinduismtoday.com As the bee takes the essence of a flower and flies away without destroying its beauty and perfume, so let the sage wander in this life. Dhammapada 50
www.sindhtoday.net AGRA, INDIA, March 17, 2009: In Bangladesh, the Ramayana is the most popular performing art form, says a leading playwright of the country. “The Indian epic exists in harmony a variety of indigenous folk arts,” says Saymon Zakaria. “Åt least eight versions of the Ramayana, mostly folklore-based performances, are enacted in the countryside of Bangladesh. It is one of…
www.himmeljord.no MINDE, NORWAY: Bergen Hindu Sabha names both a religious community of Hindus from India and Sri Lanka, and also a Tamil Hindu temple of the Saiva tradition dedicated to Lord Ganesha, the God of intellect and wisdom and ruler of obstacles. Its spokesperson, Raajini Rajalingam, says that Bergen Hindu Sabha has been active since the mid 1980s and was…