In Sri Lanka, Buddhists and Muslims relations are under renewed strain. The two religious groups, which have been at loggerheads due to the issue of Rohingya persecution in Myanmar, have now clashed for an unknown reason in eastern Sri Lanka’s Ampara. At least 5 people have been injured, while a Mosque and several shops have […]
Victorian State Government is providing over $160,000 to Shri Shiva Vishnu Temple (Hindu Society of Victoria) in Carrum Downs for up-gradation. Victorian Minister for Multicultural Affairs Robin Scott stated in a release: “The upgrades to the Shri Shiva Vishnu Temple will help our Hindu community enshrine and share their values of compassion, selflessness, harmony, tolerance […]
Ganesha High School! The name may surprise many but in California, it is a thriving school. Now, the Hindus are suggesting building a shrine to Hindu deity Lord Ganesha in this public school in Pomona (California) named after him and whose emblem carries Ganesha’s picture complete with his vahana (vehicle) mouse. It would be quite […]
Indonesia woke up to desecration on a Hindu Pura in which three statues were also desecrated. Pura means Temple in the local language. The desecration has been reported by major newspapers like the CNN Indonesia. The reports state that three statues in Pura Mandara Giri Semeru Agung, Senduro Lumajang East Java, were destroyed by unknown […]
Welcoming Council Rock School District (CRSD) for declaring holiday on November seven, when their most popular festival Diwali falls this year. Board of Directors of CRSD, headquartered in Newtown (Pennsylvania), in their meeting on February 15, unanimously approved 2018-2019 calendar which includes the addition of Diwali as an official school holiday. In 2017, Unionville-Chadds Ford […]
Vatican Library carries 15 printed books on the topic of yoga, including an 1897 edition. Catalogue search reveals titles like “How to know God. The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali” (1953), yoga as a healing path, the yoga of faith, spirituality of yoga, etc. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, termed it […]
Bangladesh Minority Watch has presented a report on the latest atrocity on the Hindus in the country in which cows have been burned down. The latest case of atrocity has emerged from the Madhukhali Upazila of the Faridpur District and has already been reported by the Bangladeshi dailies like “The Daily Sangbad” dated 18 January […]
Hindus have welcomed the reported launch of “Travel Well with Yoga” program in all the routes of Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon airlines, thus bringing yoga to the sky. In partnership with Pure Yoga, this inflight well-being program; in English, Cantonese, Mandarin and Japanese; includes series of videos on inflight entertainment screens “to help passengers […]
Hinduism grew by 60% in Australia during 2011-2016, raising the numbers of Hindus to 440,300; according to an Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) release referring to 2016 Census of Population and Housing. It was now the fourth largest religion in Australia after Christianity, Islam and Buddhism. Median age of Australian Hindus is 31, 92% live […]
Pashtoons are again struggling in Pakistan. On 12th January 2018, an innocent Pashtoon named Naqibullah Mahsood was murdered after claiming that he was a terrorist. First, the Pashtoon activists and I raised our voice through social media but now in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and other tribal areas, Pashtoons came together and it resulted in the Pashtoon […]
