Hinduism
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Tuesday September 4, 2007
Hinduism:
A Hindu religious leader in South Africa has caused a storm within the Indian community by saying that those who convert to Christianity will “lose their right to be Indian”.
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Tuesday August 28, 2007
Hinduism:
Zed’s prayer, spoken first in Sanskrit, an official language of India, followed by an English translation, lasted about three minutes – and without any disturbances like the protests that occurred last month when he became the first Hindu cleric to lead the U.S. Senate in prayer.
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Monday August 27, 2007
BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha • Hinduism:
Built at a cost of $19 million in the Lilburn suburb of Atlanta, the white temple that was inaugurated on Sunday, covers an area two and half football fields long. The BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha has three other temples in North America – in Houston, Chicago and Toronto.
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Burning Man • Hinduism:
A traditional Indian rath yatra, or a chariot procession, a Hindu wedding and a life size temple of Lord Jagannath are among the major highlights of this year’s annual Burning Man festival in Nevada desert.
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Friday August 24, 2007
Hinduism:
A Hindu leader compared government animal welfare officials to fascists today as an elderly bullock with suspected ovine tuberculosis was slaughtered.
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Monday August 6, 2007
BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha • Hinduism:
Festive air mixed with spiritual solemnity as the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, a leading Hindu sect, held a regional round of its centennial celebration in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
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Tuesday July 31, 2007
Hinduism:
Rajesh Taipuriya, 23, severed his hand using a kukhuri, a curved Nepalese knife, after a service in Nepal where devotions were offered to the popular deity Kali.
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Buddhism • Hinduism:
In Nepal she has been worshipped as a living deity since the age of two. But when 10-year-old Sajani took a recent trip to the US, Nepali religious officials threatened to strip her of her exalted status. How would she be greeted back in Kathmandu? And is life for a goddess as divine as it sounds?
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Friday July 27, 2007
Hinduism:
Shambo the “sacred” bullock at the centre of a controversial three-month legal fight has been slaughtered, it has been confirmed.
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Thursday July 26, 2007
Hinduism:
Vets and animal inspectors were denied entry to the Skanda Vale religious community when they arrived to take Shambo for slaughter on Thursday morning.
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Tuesday July 24, 2007
Hinduism:
The long-running saga of Shambo the bull entered its final chapter yesterday, as the Court of Appeal ruled a slaughter order on the animal was justified, despite his sacred status for the Hindu monks who keep him.
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Tuesday July 17, 2007
Hinduism:
A British judge on Monday granted a reprieve to Shambo, a sacred bull at a Hindu monastery in southern Wales who had been threatened with slaughter because he is suspected of carrying bovine tuberculosis.
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Friday July 13, 2007
Hinduism • Religious Intolerance:
Christian activists briefly disrupted a Hindu invocation in the U.S Senate on Thursday, marring a historic first for the chamber and showing that fundamentalism is present and shouting in the U.S too.
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Wednesday July 4, 2007
Hinduism:
A 10-year-old Nepalese girl was stripped of her title as a living goddess because she traveled overseas to promote a documentary about the centuries-old tradition, an official said Tuesday.
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Saturday June 30, 2007
Hinduism:
A campagin for open-air funeral pyres in the UK has won the backing of the Hindu equivalent of the Pope.
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Friday June 29, 2007
Hinduism:
In Nepal, 10-year old Sajani Shakya is a living goddess, one of about a dozen such goddesses in her homeland who are considered earthly manifestations of the Hindu goddess Kali.
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Wednesday June 27, 2007
Hinduism:
A sacred bull that tested positive for bovine tuberculosis is to be destroyed despite protests from Hindus around the world.
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Hinduism:
Tuesday 26th of June 2007 History will be created when a Hindu prayer will be recited at the opening of the US Senate in Washington DC on July 12.
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Tuesday June 12, 2007
Hinduism:
The practice of dedicating young girls as devadasis — slaves to the goddess of fertility — has been outlawed for over 50 years, but still it happens.
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Tuesday May 22, 2007
Hinduism:
Hundreds of pilgrims have been rushing to a remote village in Nepal after reports that the statue of a Hindu deity had started to “sweat” – considered an ill omen for the country’s embattled monarchy and a portent of natural disaster.
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Wednesday May 9, 2007
Hinduism:
Hindu Family’s Idea for Temple Stemmed From Prayer Sessions in the Privacy of Their Home in the 1980s.
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Sunday April 15, 2007
Hinduism:
Devotees have been lining up to seek his blessings and some of them even take him to be the messenger of Bahuchar Mata, the goddess of Indian eunuchs, addressing him as Ma.
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Wednesday February 21, 2007
Hinduism:
Japan wants to encourage studies of Hindu gods and goddesses found in their country. Saraswati, Laxmi, Brahma, Ganesha among large number of other deities are still prayed to there though under a different names.
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Tuesday February 6, 2007
Hinduism:
Early on, she began having what she calls “subtle experiences,” such as hearing plants communicate. On a walk, “I heard singing, like a soft chorus . . . it struck me it was the plants making beautiful, vivid music, and I’m attuned to that.”
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Hinduism:
The expansion mirrors Denver’s growing Hindu community, who hail mostly from India.
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Most Read about Hinduism
- Hindu temple ascends in Lilburn, Georgia
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- Indian cult kills children for goddess
- Shambo centre of temple stand-off
- Hindu man chops off his hand to offer to goddess
- Officials confirm death of sacred bull Shambo
- U.K. Judge Spares Sacred Bull At Hindu Monastery
- Swaminarayan sect opens huge temple in Atlanta
- Court of Appeal rules that sacred bull Shambo must die
- Hindus upset over ban on holy dot
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