Author: Jennifer Dunville

Source: The Daily Gleaner

http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/cityregion/article/388169

It's a milestone Nirmal and Ram Singhal never thought they would reach.

The Fredericton residents are getting ready to celebrate the anniversary of the Hindu temple - a dream they made a reality 10 years ago.

"I'm on cloud nine," Ram said. "Every time I come from the temple, I cry. I see children there and...

Author: Emily Wax

Source: The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/17/AR2008081702198.html

On a recent four-month trek through hundreds of Kashmiri villages, separatist leader Yasin Malik called on people to adopt his new Gandhian philosophy of nonviolence. Malik, a secular Muslim, soon became an icon of peace to many youths in this turbulent region that India and Pakistan have...

Author: Jay Tokasz

Source: The Buffalo News

http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/northernsuburbs/story/416562.html

Seagulls squawked overhead, children frolicked in the sand and a couple of fishing boats bobbed on a gentle section of the Niagara River near Beaver Island State Park.

Just another day at the beach, save for the group of Hindu men who waded knee deep into the water for a purification ritual marking the...

Author: Sopheng Cheang

Source: The Associated Press

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080816/ap_on_re_as/cambodia_temple_dispute

A monthlong standoff between Thailand and Cambodia appeared to be ending as both sides pulled back their troops Saturday from disputed territory around a temple near their shared border, a Cambodian official said.

The redeployment from the Preah Vihear temple area began Friday evening and was...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: South Asian Focus

http://www.southasianfocus.ca/community/article/54437

An estimated 2,500 people from across the area braved the rains last weekend to attend the Hindu Heritage Festival, held at Toronto's Black Creek Pioneer Village by the Hindu Federation.

The festival, which drew together congregations from temples located across the GTA, celebrated Hindu culture inside Canada and provided a perspective on...

Author: Coomi Kapoor

Source: The Star

Author: Aijaz Hussain

Source: The Associated Press

http://www.startribune.com/world/26845069.html?elr=KArks:DCiUBcy7hUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU

Security forces fired bullets and tear gas Monday trying to stop marches by Kashmir Muslims protesting a road blockade by Hindus, leaving four people dead, including the leader of an alliance of nonviolent separatist groups.

Police later ordered a curfew for most of Indian...

Author: Sean Yoong

Original Source: The Straits Times

https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/710592

Protestors forced lawyers in Malaysia to abandon a conference on religious conversion on Saturday, decrying it as an effort to challenge the official status of Islam in this Muslim-majority country.

Police...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/7549910.stm

One of the world's oldest street festival[s] was held in Cardiff to spread cultural, social and religious understanding, say its organisers.

The Festival of the Chariots, or Ratha Yatra, was first held in the Indian city of Puri 5,000 years ago and is now run in various cities across the world.

It involved the...

Author: Matt Wade

Source: The Sidney Morning Herald

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/the-bible-takes-an-eastern-influence/2008/08/08/1218139078193.html

The words of the Bhagavadgita, the songs of a Hindu mystic and the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi have all found a place in a controversial Bible published in India.

An illustration in the new version depicts the Holy Family as poor Indian...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Dawn

Wire Service: AFP

http://www.dawn.com/2008/08/09/top9.htm

Occupied Kashmir is facing a shortage of food, fuel and medicine as the violence-hit region is gripped by the worst Hindu-Muslim tensions in decades, locals say.

Angry protesters in Hindu-dominated Jammu have been attacking trucks ferrying food, drugs and other essential supplies to the Muslim-majority valley, seeking to impose an...

Author: Adelle M. Banks

Source: USA Today/Religion News Service

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-08-07-crosses-highway_N.htm?csp=34

A church-state watchdog group has joined Hindu and Jewish organizations in arguing that a Utah court erred in ruling that a highway cross memorializing a fallen state trooper is a "secular symbol of death."

A friend-of-the-court brief was filed Wednesday in the 10th U.S....

Author: Rhys Saunders

Source: State-Journal Register

http://www.sj-r.com/homepage/x683114282/Community-celebrates-new-Hindu-temple

The opening of a Hindu temple in Chatham this week not only gives local worshippers a new place to meet and pray, it’s another indication that the Indian community in central Illinois is growing.

Members of the Hindu Temple of Greater Springfield believe in teachings based on...

Author: Zaffar Iqbal

Source: NDTV

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Thaindian News/ANI

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/india-news/mass-funeral-of-the-stampede-victims-update_10079896.html

A mass funeral for 11 victims of the ”Naina Devi” temple stampede was organised in Rajpura in Patiala District of Punjab today.

Thirty children and 38 women were among those killed in the stampede that was apparently sparked...