Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/shropshire/hi/people_and_places/religion_and_ethics/newsid_8127000/8127205.stm

Shropshire Hindus are celebrating after being told they will receive a bank loan to fund a new temple, the first of its kind in the county.

The new temple and community centre will be built at Dawley Bank and will be called the Hindu Cultural...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8125927.stm

A report on the 1992 demolition of the Babri Masjid mosque, which sparked nationwide communal riots, has been submitted to the Indian government.

The Liberhan commission was set up to investigate the events that led to a Hindu mob tearing down the disputed mosque in the town of Ayodhya.

The commission has taken 17 years to complete its...

Author: April Dembosky

Source: Diablo Magazine

http://www.diablomag.com/Diablo-Magazine/June-2009/Amma-rsquos-Ashram/

Mata Amritanandamayi has hugged almost 27 million people—the most recent estimate. Known as Amma, or Mother, she offers an embrace said to be so blissful, so life changing, that people wait more than 15 hours for a few seconds in her arms.

Amma began hugging people as a teenager in her hometown in...

Author: Julia Zappei

Original Source: Syracuse.com

Wire Service: AP

Author: Jessica Whitfield

Source: The Daily Texan

http://www.dailytexanonline.com/state-local/hindu-celebration-stresses-unity-1.1770350

Almost 150 members of the Oriya community gathered at the Austin Hindu Temple on Sunday to celebrate the Festival of Chariots, an observance of Lord Jagannath’s Rath Yatra.

Jagannath serves as the presiding deity of the state of Orissa on the East Coast of India,...

Author: Krishnan Vasudevan

Source: NJ.com

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Duniyalive.com

http://www.duniyalive.com/?p=40565

Hindus and Jews have urged for separation of church and state in Denmark, where currently The Danish National Church is a state church.

Rajan Zed, acclaimed Hindu statesman; and Rabbi Jonathan B. Freirich, prominent Jewish leader in Nevada and California in USA; in a statement in Nevada today, said that institution of state church breached the equality of religions and the...

Author: Shaikh Azizur Rahman

Source: The National

http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090629/FOREIGN/706289896/1103/NEWS

Christians in the state of Orissa are pretending to be Hindus to protect themselves from militants who continue to threaten them nearly 10 months after a wave of sectarian violence.

Orissa’s Christian leaders reported this week that in some remote villages of Kandhamal district Christian families...

Author: Christina Capecchi

Source: The New York Times

Author: Michelle Knoll

Source: KSAX-TV

http://ksax.com/article/stories/S1001180.shtml?cat=10230

More than 1,000 people celebrated the completion of one of the largest Hindu temples in the world in Maple Grove Sunday.

It started as the dream of just a few people more than 20 years ago. They wanted to build a temple where Hindus from across the region could gather and celebrate. Sunday that dream finally became reality.
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Author: Liz Rhoades

Source: Queens Chronicle

Author: Jeff Strickler

Source: Star Tribune

http://www.startribune.com/local/west/48734042.html?elr=KArks7PYDiaK7DUdcOy_nc:DKUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU

Eleven years after the Hindu Society of Minnesota picked out a cornfield near Maple Grove as the spot for its new home, one of the largest Hindu temples in North America celebrates its completion this weekend.

Crowds of up to 1,500 are expected each day of...

Author: Emily Dugan

Source: The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/inside-britains-first-hindu-statefunded-faith-school-1711566.html

"I like the tree position best," says five-year-old Sadhana, standing perfectly still on one leg, hands clasped in prayer. She is one of a row of children perched like stalks on miniature yoga mats as calming...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: NVO News

http://nvonews.com/2009/06/20/american-hindus-laud-obama/

Hindus have applauded US President Barack Obama for including “Hindus” in his remarks to Esperanza National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast and Conference in Washington DC on July 19.

Obama said in this address: “So as we join in prayer, we remember that this is a nation of Christians and Muslims and Jews and Hindus and non-...

Author: Paul Hutchings

Source: Stoney Creek News

http://www.stoneycreeknews.com/news/article/179071

He’s one of the most important figures in the Hindu religion. Imagine Pope Benedict visiting a Hamilton-area Roman Catholic church and you have the effect the visit of his holiness Shree Swami Satyamitranand Giri Ji Maharaj Pravach had on those who practice the Hindu faith in Hamilton

The 78-year-old Swami had an audience of about 200 in...