Author: Hemendra Singh Bartwal

Source: Hindustan Times

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With the Sangh Parivar gearing up for a repeat performance in BJP's favour in UP Assembly elections after its success in recent civic polls, the VHP has lined up a series of programmes for mass mobilisation of Hindu voters in the state during the coming months.

The biggest event among these is the World Hindu Conference that has been...

Author: Jillian Ladegard

Source: Sun Star

http://www.uaf.edu/sunstar/archives/20061114/india.html

Diwali, the Hindu "Festival of Lights," is the largest and most widely celebrated festival throughout India, and this past weekend it was the highlight cultural event on the UAF campus.

Sponsored by the student group Namaste India, the festival treated more than 250 UAF community members to traditional stories, dances, songs, and cuisine....

Author: Clive Roberts

Source: Hindu Press International

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The European Parliament is engaged in discussions to ban the Swastika. Their awareness of its symbolism is obviously limited to Europe post 1930! May I offer some information?

If you drive to Scotland, and visit the Queen's Scottish residence at Balmoral, then as you leave the car park and cross the bridge over the River Dee, you will see a monument to the fallen dead in (I believe) the First...

Author: Rebecca Rosen Lum

Source: Contra Costa Times

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They prayed for the flocks, they got them, and now they're grappling with the reality: Houses of worship in Central and East Contra Costa are flexing with a demographic explosion that's forcing some to construct buildings, expand existing ones or add services.

Rapidly growing congregations are spurring some churches to hold as many as nine services on Sunday -- in...

Author: Gary Lee

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/10/AR2006111000463.html

It was late afternoon in Fairfield, Iowa, and townsfolk were preparing for the daily ritual.

Marie-Helene Tourenne, who serves up sublime French fare at the Petit Paris restaurant, removed her apron, left the coq au vin to simmer and exited the kitchen. Lonica Halley, co-owner of...

Source: Hindu Press International/Hinduism Today

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ORLANDO, FLORIDA, November 10, 2006: The Hindu University of America, in partnership with the University of Central Florida Philosophy department, the Ethics Center, The Women's Research Center and the Orlando Regional Health Care spiritual Care council held a successful Bioethics Workshop - Hindu and Buddhist Perspectives on November 3. Philosophers, scientists, ethicists, health care professionals, spiritual care advisors and scholars...

Author: Viji Sundaram

Source: New America Media/India-West Newspaper

Source: Hindu America Foundation

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WASHINGTON, D.C. (November 9, 2006) -- The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) strongly condemned the egregious and bigoted remarks by Texas Governor Rick Perry wherein he said that non-Christians are doomed and condemned to go to hell.

According to The Dallas Morning News (November 6, 2006), Gov. Rick Perry, after attending a sermon with nearly 60 Republican candidates on Sunday, November 5, 2006 said that he concurred with...

Source: India e-News

http://www.indiaenews.com/religion/20061109/28116.htm

Hundreds of people, including foreigners and non-Hindus, are thronging a new Jagannath temple built by an American devotee in this coastal Orissa district.

The 35-feet-high temple, identical to the one at Puri, has been built at the district's Kuansh village by Julian Parker, who hails from Los Angeles. He has been living in the village since 1994.

'Many non-Hindus have been...

Author: Datuk A. Vaithilingam

Source: Hinduism Today

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KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA, November 7, 2006: Datuk A. Vaithilingam, President of the Malaysia Hindu Sangam writes:

"The Malaysia Hindu Sangam is very much saddened with the approach on Hindu temples issue by certain government and private sector authorities. Recently the Semenyih Local Council authorities demolished a Muneeswarar Temple despite the fact that the temple authorities have agreed in...

Author: Simon Denyer

Source: Reuters

Author: Ritika Nandkeolyar

Source: Hindustan Times

Source: The Organiser/Hindu American Foundation press release

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The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) initiated a coordinated plan to raise awareness about celebrations of Deepavali; perhaps the most widely recognised Hindu festival celebrated around the world on October 21.

Deepavali in the original Sanskrit, refers to the rows of earthen lamps around their homes. The light from these lamps, Hindus believe, illumines individuals and...

Author: Tony LaRussa

Source: The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/east/s_477385.html

One of the most visible religious sites in Pittsburgh's eastern suburbs is about to undergo a major expansion and renovation.

The Sri Venkateswara Temple along McCully Drive in Penn Hills is earmarked for $1.8 million in new construction and renovations, which will include a 6,700-square-foot...

Author: Judy Wang

Source: Yale Daily News

http://www.yaledailynews.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=34031

In celebration of the Indian New Year, the Bharatiya Prarthna Society collaborated with the Yale Chaplain's Office to host the second-annual Diwali Pooja celebration Saturday evening.

The Hindu "festival of light" lit up the Davenport Common Room with dozens of candles and attracted nearly one hundred Hindu and non-Hindu Yale community...