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Source: Hindu Press International

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KAUAI, HAWAII, May 26, 2007: HPI has learned that up to a dozen temples in the United States have recently had R-1 (religious worker) visas for priests denied at the American consulates in India. This is in addition to the recent denial of visas for sthapatis (temple architects) and silpis (temple master craftsmen). These denials are coming in instances where previous applicants with the same qualifications and documentation were granted the R-1....

Source: Hindu Press International

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NORTHFIELD, MINNESOTA, USA, May 25, 2007: This fall Professor of Religion Anantanand Rambachan will chair the St. Olaf Religion Department -- making him the first non-Christian in the 133-year history of the college to hold the post. Rambachan spoke recently about what his appointment means for the future of St. Olaf College as well as his passion for fostering dialogue between the world's major religious traditions, whether...

Source: Hindu Press International

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TRINIDAD, May 25, 2007: Indian heritage day will be observed as a national holiday on Wednesday May 30. On May 30, 1845, the Fath Al Razak docked in the Port of Spain harbor in Trinidad and Tobago with 225 adult passengers on board. The passengers were immigrants from India who had come to the British colony to work in the sugarcane plantations after the abolition of African slavery. They had spent 103 days on sea during the arduous and dangerous journey...

Source: Hindu Press International

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BRADFORD, UNITED KINGDOM, May 25, 2007: The Queen was presented with a burgundy shawl--a perfect match to her outfit--after she opened a US$6 million Hindu temple in Bradford. The Queen was greeted by Swami Gopal Sharan Devacharya. The gift was presented after she unveiled a plaque at the Bradford Hindu Temple which will be one of the largest outside London once it opens later this summer. Local residents gathered outside to watch her arrive with the Duke...

Source: Hindu American Foundation Press Release

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Minneapolis, MN. (May 25, 2007) – The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) condemned last week’s bombing of the 17th century Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad, India in a statement released today. The explosion killed 11 people, and injured dozens. At least five more were killed by police in subsequent riots in the city.

Hyderabad is a city of 9 million, 40 percent of whom are Muslim. No group has claimed...

Source: Hindustan Times

Author: Vern Barnet

Source: The Kansas City Star

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You are a Hindu priest in Kansas City. What brought you here? What do you do? And can you help me sort out various terms for religious leaders?

I put such questions to the two priests at the Hindu Temple and Cultural Center in Shawnee. The temple began in 1991, and its growth now requires plans to expand the building.

Shastri Rajendra Pandya and Seshasai Rompicharla come from priestly families in...

Source: icWales

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Times of India

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KUALA LUMPUR: Islamic authorities in Malaysia insist they were right in detaining a Muslim woman who was living with her Hindu husband as their marriage was illegal under the country's laws.

Officials of the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) raided the home of a truck driver Magendran Sababathy on April 28 and took away his wife...

Author: BARBARA KARKABI

Source: Houston Chronicle

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/religion/4776549.html

He's been called a Himalayan master and a bridge between East and West.

To his admirers, Swami Vidyadhishananda Giri is that and more. But don't try to put the swami in a category. That only creates limitations, he gently explains.

For example, he doesn't mind if people refer to him as a Hindu monk, but that...

Source: Punjab Newsline Network

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N[E]VADA (USA): History was created when Rajan Zed, Director of Interfaith Relations of Hindu Temple of Northern Nevada, Public Relations Officer of India Association of Northern Nevada, and a Hindu chaplain, read ancient Hindu prayer/blessing in Sanskrit at the opening of the Nevada State Senate session here Monday.

This is the first time any Hindu prayer is delivered in the Nevada...

Author: Ames Boykin

Source: Daily Herald

Author: Meredith Heagney

Source: The Columbus Dispatch

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Two oncologists and their families gathered yesterday to pray where the doctors soon will treat people with cancer.

They took part in a Hindu tradition, the puja ceremony, to bless a new space.

Invoking positive energy will help make the Mark H. Zangmeister Center a place of healing, said Sree Aswath, who performed the ceremony.

Doctors at the...

Author: Thomas Gnau

Source: Dayton Daily News

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HUBER HEIGHTS — It began with a Hindu family's prayers in the privacy of their Springfield home in the early 1980s.

It culminated this weekend in the dedication of the Dayton area's second Hindu temple, off Bellefontaine Road. The first temple, in Beavercreek, was dedicated in 1985.

In between was the journey of a lifetime for Chirag Patel, a Hindu believer...