Author: Chris Sikich

Source: The Indy Star

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081013/LOCAL1802/810130340

Northview Middle School took on a new look this weekend for a Bengali religious event called the Durga Puja.

Hundreds of people from Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana flocked to Indianapolis on Saturday and Sunday for the 24th annual Tri State Durga Puja and erected a shrine in the Far-Northside...

Author: Tom Stafford

Source: Springfield News-Sun

http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/hp/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/10/12/sns101208stafford.html

The words are from another continent, so they feel a little strange on the tongue.

The treats they represent do not.

Some are salty, most are sweet, and one tastes like grainy peanut butter fudge.

All are delicacies...

Author: John M. Willis

Source: Rome News-Tribune

http://news.mywebpal.com/partners/680/public/news929845.html

The music hits your ears first, well before you enter the carpet showroom off Union Grove Road in rural Gordon County.

Once inside, several hundred men and women of all ages are dancing, clapping in time with the throbbing beat and moving in a counterclockwise circle around an altar on which pictures of the nine aspects of...

Author: Shaikh Azizur Rahman

Source: The National

http://www.thenational.ae/article/20081011/FOREIGN/254874587/1015/SPORT

Christian youths in the eastern state of Orissa have turned to militancy by teaming up with local Maoists. Police are concerned that if anti-Christian riots continue, the Christians may also join forces with Muslim militants to take on Hindus.

The shift follows seven weeks of violence triggered by the...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Times of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Indians_Abroad/Hindu_girl_in_UK_wins_fight_to_wear_nose_ring/articleshow/3582057.cms

A UK teenager has forced her school to allow her to wear a nose stud, with her mother arguing it is a Hindu religious symbol that eases childbirth.

Although most UK schools have strict rules on facial jewellery...

Author: Sarah Dunn

Source: The Star

http://www.thestar.co.uk/headlines/Hindu-community-celebrates-Navraatri-festival.4582526.jp

Sheffield's Hindu community came together to celebrate a religious festival with prayers and a traditional feast.

The event, at the Hindu Community Centre, Buckenham Street, Burngreave, was organised to mark the ninth and final day of the Navraatri festival.

It is...

Author: Edythe Jensen

Source: The Arizona Republic

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2008/10/11/20081011cr-nohindu1011.html

It had been green-lighted by both the Chandler City Council and the Planning and Zoning Commission, but a proposed Hindu temple didn't sit right with a small group of neighbors.

They took their fight to court - and won.

Maricopa County Superior...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Times of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/22_arrested_in_TN_for_damaging_religious_institutions/rssarticleshow/3581492.cms

The Tamil Nadu police detained 22 people for desecrating Christian institutions, even as there were reports of further attacks against select targets.

While two Bibles embedded in the outer walls of...

Author: Andrew Buncombe

Source: The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/holy-war-strikes-india-955502.html

As she recalled her awful story, Puspanjali Panda made no attempt to halt the tears flooding down her face.

Holding her daughter close, she told how a baying Hindu mob dragged her husband – a Christian pastor – from his bed, beat him to death with stones and iron rods and...

Author: Kishalay Bhattacharjee

Source: NDTV

http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/story.aspx?id=NEWEN20080068029

Serial bomb blast across various states in the country may have dampened the spirit of Navaratri, but the blasts on the eve of Durga Puja has not changed the festivities in Tripura, which has a unique tradition of Hindus and Muslims celebrating puja together.

Not far from the big-budget colourful Durga Puja...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Hindu American Foundation

http://www.hinduamericanfoundation.org/media_press_release_orissa.htm

A recent spate of inter-religious riots in India, pitting mostly Hindu and Christian communities against each other, have been widely covered in the international media. The clashes began after a Hindu monk was killed in the eastern Indian state of Orissa in early September, and in the southern city of...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Times of India

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Indians_Abroad/Indian_immigrants_in_Australia_celebrate_Durga_Puja_with_gusto/articleshow/3569438.cms

Thousands of Bengali immigrants and other members of the Indian diaspora ushered in the Durga Puja celebrations with much fanfare and gusto here.

Colourful pandals (marquees...

Author: Roland Cilliers

Source: Fort McMurray Today

http://www.fortmcmurraytoday.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1235116

It was a celebration of good defeating evil for Fort McMurray Gujarati this weekend.

The Navratri, which translates as nine nights, is a nine-day Hindu celebration that features prayer, music and dancing well into the night. In Fort McMurray, the first day of the local celebration attracted close to 400 people and...

Author: Alan McEwen

Source: Scotsman News

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Festival-is-flaming-marvellous.4560948.jp

It was a sight visible across the centre of Edinburgh as three giant effigies burned in the night sky on the top of Calton Hill.

Nearly 2000 revellers had gathered to mark the Hindu festival of Dussehra and its celebration of the triumph of good over evil.

And as the 25-feet-high flaming...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Associated Press