Author: Sarah Pease-Kerr

Source: The Daily Princetonian

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The Office of Religious Life (ORL) is nearing the end of its search for the University’s first full-time Muslim and Hindu chaplains. The appointments will be made in early May.

The chaplains will be responsible for promoting programming for each community, counseling students, participating in interfaith initiatives and leading or enabling worship of each religion, Dean of Religious Life Rev....

Author: RICH SHOPES

Source: The Tampa Tribune

http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/mar/31/me-shining-light-on-hinduism/

Nikhil Joshi said persistent misunderstandings about Hindus in the media and politics compelled him and two friends to start the Hindu American Foundation.

Unlike some communities, the Bay area's Hindus seemed "activist-oriented," making the perfect launching pad for the group.

"They seemed willing...

Source: Courier News

http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/couriernews/lifestyles/866504,3_5_EL30_FAITH_S1.article

The building retains its classically American-Protestant design outside, right up to the steeple pointing heavenward. Inside, the pews have been removed to accommodate Eastern worshippers, and the former pulpit focal point has given way to a 6-foot-tall white marble statue of Sai Baba.

This is the Shirdi Sai Temple, a...

Author: LISA BOLIVAR

Source: The Miami Herald

http://www.miamiherald.com/478/story/473082.html

With green- and yellow-tinted powder smeared on her cheeks, Rhea Kumar, 8, bent in intense concentration as she filled her squirt gun with water and giggled with glee as she turned and squirted anyone within range.

Rhea, of Weston, and about 400 other South Florida Hindus congregated on March 23 at C.B. Smith Park in Pembroke Pines to partake in an...

Author: Mark Bendeich

Source: The Ottowa Citizen

Wire Service: Reuters

Author: Judyth Piazza

Source: News Blaze

http://newsblaze.com/story/20080330054305tsop.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.html

Rajan Zed, prominent Hindu and Indo-American leader, will speak at prestigious Duke University in Durham (North Carolina, USA) on April six.

Author: Sam Rao

Source: Asian Week

http://www.asianweek.com/2008/03/28/hindu-prayer-opens-state-legislatures-for-the-first-time/

Rajan Zed first sprinkled holy water from the Ganges River in India (Ganga jal) on the podium, a tradition in Hindu worship ceremony, before chanting “Om,” which in Hinduism is used to introduce and conclude religious work. This marked the first recitation of the Hindu...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7318998.stm

Hindu monks are to sue the RSPCA over the killing of a sacred cow at a Hertfordshire temple.

Six monks went to the charity's HQ in Horsham, West Sussex, to serve papers and they threatened to start legal proceedings over the death of Gangotri.

The Belgian blue-jersey cross was kept at Bhaktivedanta Manor temple, Watford.

The monks said...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Hinduism Today/California Parents for the Equalization of Educational Materials

http://www.hinduismtoday.com/hpi/2008/3/27.shtml#1

California Parents for the Equalization of Educational Materials (CAPEEM) scored a major victory on Tuesday when Judge Frank C. Damrell, Jr. of the United States District Court of the Eastern District of California rejected the defendants' motion to dismiss CAPEEM's lawsuit to correct...

Author: Karin Brulliard

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/25/AR2008032502694_pf.html

On a dark Sunday morning in a slumbering Ellicott City neighborhood, Bhaskar Sastry, freelance Hindu priest, drove down a private drive toward his 6 a.m. assignment. A stone-front colonial came into view, its porch light revealing a large family waiting in the drizzle, parkas...

Author: HÃœSEYÄ°N SÃœMER

Source: Today's Zaman

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=137125

Turkish Foreign Trade Minister Kürşad Tüzmen had his entire body covered in paint while participating in the Hindu Holi Festival in Mumbai yesterday during an ongoing trip to India to improve commercial relations with the country.

Author: ROJA HEYDARPOUR

Source: The Times-Tribune

Author: JULIE MASIS

Source: India New England

Author: Erika Jaramillo

Source: The Daily Texan

http://media.www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storage/paper410/news/2008/03/24/TopStories/Ut.Students.Celebrate.Holi-3279776.shtml

Students covered each other with bright green, yellow and blue powder as they danced along to DJ Envy on the grassy field of the South Mall Sunday in celebration of Holi, the Hindu festival of colors....

Author: Mohua Chatterjee

Source: Times of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Yasin_Malik_wants_to_repair_Hindu-Muslim_ties_in_Valley/articleshow/2892806.cms

Militancy in Kashmir, which started in 1989, took a toll on the Muslim-Hindu cohabitation in the Valley that formed the basis of Kashmiri culture.

Realising that the process of resolving the Kashmir issue will now have...