Author: Aftab Mughal

Source: The Sikh Times

http://www.emgonline.co.uk/news.php?news=5554

Sikhs and other non-Muslims living in Pakistan are facing huge challenges at the hands of the Taliban,

The Bara-based Lashkar-e-Islam (LI, an Islamic militant group) has imposed jizya, an Islamic tax, on the non-Muslim communities, including Sikhs, Hindus and Christians living in the Khyber Agency, a tribal region of North West Frontier Post (NWFP) near...

Author: Vikas Jaatyan

Source: Northern Voices Online

http://nvonews.com/2009/06/08/sanskrit-mantra-opened-interfaith-picnic-in-nevada/

Northern Nevada (USA) held its third annual interfaith community picnic in Reno on June seven with prayers in Sanskrit, Hebrew, Arabic, and Ennevada.

Christians (various denominations), Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Religious Science, Wicca, and others gathered in famous Rancho San...

Author: Josh Shaffer

Source: The News...

Author: Denny Walsh

Source: The Sacramento Bee

http://www.sacbee.com/news/story/1923828.html

The much-ballyhooed brouhaha over how Hinduism is taught in California's secondary public schools has apparently been laid to rest.

A Sacramento federal judge entered final judgment this week in a lawsuit accusing members of the state Board of Education and the state's curriculum czar of unconstitutional actions.

California Parents for the...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Hindu American Foundation

http://www.hinduamericanfoundation.org/?q=node/292

The Hindu American Foundation (HAF) welcomed President Obama's much heralded speech in Cairo, Egypt, that was billed by the White House as an address to the global Muslim community. In a nearly hour long speech, President Obama condemned Islamic extremism while also calling for increased tolerance and pluralism in many officially Muslim countries...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Hinduism Today/www.nepalnews.com

http://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/xpress/hindu-press-international/2009/06/05/bhutanese-refugees-in-australia-celebrate-resettlement-anniversary/

[HPI note: The Lhotshampas, who are mostly Hindus and once represented one sixth of Bhutan's population, were forced into exile during the 1990s....

Author: Pawan Kumar Shah

Source: Silver Scorpio/ANI

http://silverscorpio.com/muslim-sage-recites-hindu-scriptures-in-uttar-pradesh/

A Muslim sage in Uttar Pradesh has been reciting holy Hindu scriptures at religious functions.

Yasin Bharti, the Muslim sage, resides in the Khoonipur block of Pipraich area.

Yasin not only has complete knowledge about the Quran, but has equal knowledge about Ramayan and...

Author: Kendall Jones

Source: MyNC/NBC17

http://wake.mync.com/site/wake/news|Sports|Lifestyles/story/35492/community-celebrates-hindu-temple-opening

It's taken almost 10 years and more than $3 million, but a Hindu temple in Cary is now officially open.

Thursday the idol of the Hindu god Venkateswara was moved into place. Priests purified the temple with water and fire.

The...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Salt Lake Tribune

http://www.sltrib.com/southvalley/ci_12463599

Mayors Ralph Becker, Kent Money and JoAnn Sehgeni will inaugurate the "Chariot Festival" or "Rathothsava" and Annual Day Celebrations of Sri Ganesha Hindu Temple (SGHT) and India Cultural Center on May 30 at the temple premises in South Jordan.

The event is free and open to the public between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.

The Rathothsava is a pageant...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Sussex Express

http://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/496/More-delays-for-Crawley-Hindu.5308611.jp

More devastating delays have hit the finances for Crawley's new Hindu temple.

The problems facing the building currently being built off Ifield Drive have been caused because Indian stonemasons due to start work at the site around seven weeks ago have not been allowed into the country – and...

Author: Shalendra Prasad

Source: Fiji Daily Post

Author: Mona Khaitan

Source: Lokvani

http://www.lokvani.com/lokvani/article.php?article_id=5730

Over 1,500 Hindu Americans assembled at Marlborough Middle School on May 17 to celebrate the 13th Hindu Heritage Day. To mark this annual occasion, The Mayor of City of Marlborough, Nancy E. Stevens, pro claimed SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2009 as “HINDU...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: West Yorkshire Police

Author: Esme Murphy

Source: WCCO

http://wcco.com/local/hindu.statues.buried.2.1018858.html

Three years after statues of Hindu deities were smashed by vandals, the statues were buried in a ceremony at the Maple Grove Temple.

Among those attending the ceremony were the two young men who committed the acts.

Tyler Tuomie and Paul Spakousky were sentenced to five years probation and are having to pay $48,000 each in restitution...

Author: David O'Reilly

Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20090524_Rare_ceremony_consecrating_new_Hindu_temple_in_Bucks.html

A part of Bhoo Devi was still a tub of mud last week.

But as two priests crouched on the floor Thursday, scooping out the mud and shaping it - here a hand, there a foot, now a face - it took on the coarse, dark contours of a...