Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Stamford Advocate/The Fayetteville Observer

Wire Service: AP

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/Statues-of-gods-placed-in-new-Hindu-temple-in-NC-497725.php

Members of the Hindu faith in Fayetteville have finished a 10-year project with the placement of the statues of Hindu gods in a new temple.

The Fayetteville...

Author: Sara Schilling

Source: The News Tribune

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/05/22/1196627/hindu-society-displays-sculptures.html

The Hindu Society of Eastern Washington has 11 new hand-carved religious sculptures that will be available for the public to view today and Sunday.

The free exhibition also will feature photographs taken in two ancient Hindu temples in India, along with folk and classical...

Author: Zubair Ahmed

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8697635.stm

Christian schools in the Indian city of Mumbai (Bombay) have opposed a proposal by civic authorities to promote Hindu culture in classrooms.

They argue that plans to introduce Hindutva culture - or the Hindu way of life - into missionary schools is unconstitutional and unfair.

The proposal is now being considered by the Maharashtra state government...

Author: Will Evans

Source: The Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/0521/In-India-Hindu-and-Muslim-men-make-a-meal-to-heal-the-religious-divide

Ahmedabad, the Indian city from which Mahatma Gandhi led his nonviolent freedom struggle, has earned notoriety in recent decades for vicious religious violence between Hindus and Muslims....

Author: Linda Fort

Source: Get Reading

http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2071217_hindu_joy_after_temple_revamp

Hindus in Reading will be celebrated on Sunday as they reopened the main entrance to their temple after it was refurbished.

Work has been carried out to modernise the century-old former Methodist chapel in Whitley Street, Katesgrove, so it will comply with health and safety regulations.

The work is a...

Author: Karen Caffarini

Source: Post-Tribune

http://www.post-trib.com/news/2278118,new-mvtemple-516.article

When Northwest Indiana's growing Indian population wants to worship in a proper setting, they must now travel 40 minutes west to Lemont, Ill., site of the closest Hindu temple.

That is about to change.

As of June 20, the Indian American Cultural Center at 8605 Merrillville Road will house an expanded cultural center...

Author: Christine Vendel

Source: The Kansas City Star

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/05/16/1950093/ritual-at-hindu-temple-in-shawnee.html

Worshippers fed offerings of grain, fruit and milk into 108 fire pits while praying for world peace Sunday during a rare event at the Hindu temple in Shawnee.

Hindu temples in India regularly stage Maha Yagna rituals for peace, but Sunday’s marked the first for the...

Author: Nomi Morris

Source: Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-beliefs-kneel-20100515,0,4133336.story

When Akasha Lonsdale was a child in London, her agnostic family prohibited her from participating in religious services at the Church of England school she attended. Required to sit at the back of a Hebrew class for the school's Jewish students, she befriended a girl whose family invited her to the...

Author: Mike Butts

Source: Idaho Press-Tribune

http://www.idahopress.com/news/article_5dfc8c68-5e53-11df-bff7-001cc4c002e0.html

Nampa’s mayor says the city has no plans to duplicate the Boise City Council move to begin a meeting with what is probably the first Hindu prayer to ever open official business for the city’s government.

The Boise City Council meeting on June 8 will begin with a prayer by...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Contra Costa Times

Wire Service: AP

http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_15071313

Livermore officials have approved the expansion of a Hindu temple but with restrictions that the city attorney warns could be viewed as discriminatory.

After hundreds of residents turned up for a five-hour debate, the city council on Monday approved the request by the Shiva-Vishnu Hindu Temple to expand a 31,...

Author: Catrin Nye

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8668205.stm

Hindus are currently marking the holy month of Adhik Maas and for many in Britain, the seaside getaway of Clacton-on-Sea has become an unlikely focal point.

It may not quite be on the banks of the Ganges, but the beach location of the Essex town and its own tiny temple have combined to help turn it into a venue that up to 700 Hindus from the UK will flock to during...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Hindustan Times

http://www.hindustantimes.com/20-000-Hindus-expected-to-attend-temple-ceremony-in-Malaysia/Article1-542256.aspx

More than 20,000 Hindus are expected to attend the consecration ceremony of over a century old Sri Maha Mariam man Temple in Malaysia, which is being reconstructed at a whopping cost of Rs 4 crores.

Temple chairman A Sevaguru...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Oneindia News

http://news.oneindia.in/2010/05/10/hindusmuslims-celebrate-malmaas-inkashmir.html

Promoting communal harmony and brotherhood, Hindus and Muslims celebrated 'Malmaas', the extra month in the Hindu calendar, at the famous Martand Teerth Shrine in Jammu and Kashmir's Anantnag District on Monday.
Kashmiri Hindus expressed their joy over the involvement of both...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: This is Exeter

http://www.thisisexeter.co.uk/news/Hindu-temple-team-search-land/article-2135262-detail/article.html

This is the first picture which shows how a multi-million-pound Hindu temple for Exeter might look.

The computer-generated image of the modern-looking temple with an adjoining function hall has been released by the trustees behind the scheme, who hope...

Author: Neelima Shukla-Bhatt

Source: Sightings

http://divinity.uchicago.edu/martycenter/publications/sightings/archive_2010/0506.shtml

On April 24, about one hundred images of Hindu deities were auctioned off at the site of the former Hindu Temple of Georgia in Norcross, GA.  The images, made of precious metal or wood, which were earlier valued by the temple at $ 4.5 million, brought $89,000 from...