GO TO SOURCE COLOMBO, SRI LANKA, October 4, 2002: In the wake of Buddhist leaders in Sri Lanka exerting pressure on the prime minister and the government to rescind the visas of Christian missionaries and ban conversions to Christianity, Gospel for Asia has asked their followers to pray to keep Christian missionaries active in Sri Lanka (see their website at…
Source: NDTV.com GANDHINAGAR, INDIA, October 7, 2001: Thirteen days after the gates of the Akshardham Swaminarayan Temple were closed since the September 24 terrorists’ attack, devotees were allowed inside on the first day of Navaratri today. “The gates were thrown open at 9:34 am after the traditional arati and shanti paath in presence of senior saint, Sant Ishwarcharan Swami,” a…
Source: http://www.mimeindia.com KOLKATA, INDIA, October 1, 2002: Internationally known mime artist Shri Niranjan Goswami has been invited by the Banga Mela committee to perform Mukabhinaya at their cultural program in Nashville, Tennessee in July, 2003. Shri Goswami will donate proceeds from the performance to the National Mime Institute’s Building Fund and to the Hridaya Akash, an Indian Mime Theater (IMT)…
GO TO SOURCE STATE COLLEGE, PENNSYLVANIA, October 1, 2002: A recent study found that people in southern India who hoped to escape poverty by selling a kidney were often worse off financially and less healthy after surgery. Dr. Madhav Goyal, a State college-based internist with the Geisinger Health system, found that a majority of donors were women and that at…
Source: AFP WASHINGTON, D.C., October 3, 2002: A US government advisory panel has recommended that the State Department designate 12 nations “countries of particular concern” because of their alleged violations of religious freedom, a move that could trigger sanctions against them. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom said the nations should include Myanmar, North Korea, India, Iran, Iraq, Laos,…
GO TO SOURCE MADURAI, SOUTH INDIA, October 4, 2002: The popular Meenakshi Amman temple here is organizing a “108 veenai isai vazhipadu” (offering worship by playing 108 veenas), to invoke the blessings of Goddess Saraswathi for the educational advancement of the students of Tamil Nadu. Executive officer of the temple P. Bhaskaran told reporters here that the worship would be…
Source: Hindustan Times DELHI, INDIA, October 3, 2002: Historians congregated in the Capital on Wednesday to analyze India’s Supreme Court’s verdict on the ongoing debate over the National Curriculum Framework for Secondary Education [NCFSE]. It was felt that although the NCERT had been given the go-ahead to publish the new text books,there was need to analyze the content of these…
GO TO SOURCE QUETTA, PAKISTAN, October 1, 2002: A Hindu temple in southwest Pakistan was broken into and a religious icon was damaged over the weekend, a local Hindu leader said Monday. The desecration occurred in a temple in a village of Mustung district, 55 kilometers southwest of the Baluchistan provincial capital Quetta. “Some people broke into Shunkar temple in…
Source: HPI DELHI, INDIA, October 4, 2002: Sri Narendra Mohan, the editor-in-chief of the Jagran group of newspapers passed away on September 20, 2002, at the age of 68. He died at New Delhi’s Apollo Hospital following multiorgan failure. Known as the pillar of Hindi journalism, Mohan had been a member of the Rajya Sabha on the ticket of Bhartiya…
GO TO SOURCE DINAJPUR, BANGLADESH, October 4, 2002: The president of the RK Mission Dinajpur writes, “We are glad to invite you with all your kith & kin to kindly participate in Durga puja as per program given herewith, to be held from 11 October to 15 October, 2002, according to Bisuddha Sidhanta Almanac. Dasami puja will be held on…