Author: Elisabeth Arriero

Source: The Charlotte Observer

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/05/05/1408036/coming-together-to-honor-their.html

They're thousands of miles away from their country, but every week, dozens of Indians gather at a clubhouse in Ballantyne to celebrate their heritage.

For an hour every Thursday at Providence Pointe, they chant the 1,000 names of Vishnu, one of the main forms of...

Author: Katelin Nelligan

Source: News Review Messenger

http://news-review-messenger.whereilive.com.au/news/story/greenfields-approach-for-new-hindu-temple/

Hindus will finally have a place to worship in the north after Salisbury Council approved an application for a temple in Greenfields.

The Bochasanswasi Shri Akshar Puruhottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) group, which is behind the...

Author: Richard Newman

Source: North Jersey

http://www.northjersey.com/news/bergen/92647654_At_interfaith_event__host_offers_clarity_on_Hindu_view_of_God.html

"Gods, gods, gods," said theologian Rita Sherma, in a mildly exasperated tone. "Gods with an 's,' " she said.

That is the most common misperception in the non-Hindu world, she said: that Hindus believe in more than one god...

Author: Ryan McCarthy

Source: Appeal-Democrat

http://www.appeal-democrat.com/news/city-94515-council-zed.html

Ancient Hindu scriptures will be read tonight for the invocation at the start of the Yuba City City Council meeting, among six cities where Hindu leader Rajan Zed is reading Sanskrit scriptures.

Nevada resident Zed noted some cities such as San Francisco and Sacramento do not have invocations at council meetings.

...

Author: Razak Ahmad

Source: Reuters

http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-48177820100503

Malaysia's highest court began proceedings on Monday on a landmark inter-religious child custody dispute whose outcome could further raise political tension in this mainly Muslim country.

The Federal Court heard objections by lawyers representing an ethnic Indian couple fighting each other for custody of their two children and...

Author: Anju Bhargava

Source: The Washington Post

http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/anju_bhargava/2010/05/hindu_american_community_building_through_seva.html?referrer=emaillink

Our multiple identities are reflected through the lenses by which we are seen and how we see the world. May is Asian American history month. As an Indian-American...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Yahoo News/Hindustan Times

http://in.news.yahoo.com/32/20100430/1053/tnl-fighting-to-leave-the-world-the-hind_1.html?printer=1

UK-based Davender Ghai (71) is a man with a mission, and this mission is a matter of life and death for him - literally. For the last four years Ghai was locked in a legal battle with the British government for his right to be cremated in the open...

Author: Clare de Boer

Source: The Brown Daily Herald

http://www.browndailyherald.com/exploring-hindu-culture-1.2246293

“I see many Hindus on campus, but very few actually come for Hindu Student Association” meetings, said Swami Yogatmananda, chaplain of Hinduism at Brown. Only four or five students regularly attend the Monday evening meetings, he said.

Yogatmananda said students’ minimal participation in the...

Author: Andria Simmons

Source: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

http://www.ajc.com/news/gwinnett/hindu-temples-idols-auctioned-489765.html?cxtype=rss_news_128746

The only clue that a Hindu temple once stood at 5900 Brook Hollow Parkway in Norcross is a tattered sign hanging above the portico.

The last of the sacred statues, elaborate wood carvings and other furnishings that once adorned the Hindu...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Merinews

http://www.merinews.com/article/city-councils-in-california--nevada-opening-with-hindu-prayers/15805092.shtml

Five city councils in California and one in Nevada are opening their meetings with Hindu prayers containing ancient Sanskrit mantras in the coming weeks.

Hindu leader Rajan Zed is reciting these prayers before city councils of...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Colombo Page

Author: Staff Writer

Source: KTVU

http://www.ktvu.com/news/23180200/detail.html

Plans to expand a Hindu worship center in Livermore are drawing opposition from neighbors.

The Shiva-Vishnu Temple on Arrowhead Avenue wants to triple its size, on Friday leaders said they plan to press forward.

The temple has been there for 23 years, before some of the homes around it were built.

Temple leaders said it has about 300 devotees but events...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Merinews

http://www.merinews.com/article/alaska-senate-house-of-reps-open-with-sanskrit-shlokas/15803741.shtml

Both Alaska state senate and House of Representatives in Juneau started day’s work with Hindu prayers on April nine. 

Rajan Zed, Hindu leader, read the opening prayers from ancient Sanskrit scriptures before Senators and Representatives on this...

Author: Leslie Richardson

Source: Republican Herald

http://republicanherald.com/news/lecture-offers-look-at-hinduism-1.725468

About 50 people may be greeting people differently after a presentation Friday in the R. Michael Fryer Conference Center at Penn State Schuylkill.

Dr. Ravi Rustagi, an adjunct instructor of math and engineering at the campus, presented a lecture called "The Hindu Community," in which he discussed...

Author: Manoj R Nair

Source: Mumbai Mirror

http://www.mumbaimirror.com/article/2/2010040820100408021028944c8a7a042/Much-noise-over-names-at-Towers-of-Silence.html

After refusing permission to an inter-caste married Parsi woman to let her body be consigned to the Towers of Silence after her death because she had assumed a ‘Hindu’ name, the Bombay Parsi Panchayet (BPP) has declared that funerals of women married outside the community will not be allowed at the towers if they have...