GO TO SOURCE BUCKINGHAM, VIRGINIA, October 17, 2001: Integral Yoga International and Satchidananda Ashram announce that Swami Sarvaanandaji Saraswati, Ph.D., a senior disciple of H.H. Sri Swami Satchidanandaji Maharaj, has been approved as a Hindu Board Certified Chaplain. Mataji will be officially certified during the March, 2002, annual meeting of the Association of Professional Chaplains. The APC certifies chaplains who…
GO TO SOURCE HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE, October 19, 2001: A multidisciplinary forum will bring together selected Dartmouth faculty and scholars from other US and foreign institutions to pursue research related to the topic of “Conversion” at the Dartmouth Humanities Center Residential Research Institute. The Institute will be directed by Kevin Reinhart, Professor of Religion, and Dennis Washburn, Professor of Japanese.…
GO TO SOURCE UNITY, MAINE, September 23, 2001: When Dr. Vandana Shiva attended the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association and the Common Ground Country Fair in September, she brought with her a stirring message. Honored as an international leader in her promotion of organic farming, she flew from her home in Doon Valley, India, on a flight after the…
GO TO SOURCE NEW YORK, NEW YORK, October 10, 2001: To pay homage to the heroes and the victims of the World Trade Center attack, Battery Dance Company dancer Tadej Brdnik performed a hauntingly beautiful dance piece for the passers-by at the busy Franklin Street Triangle subway stop. From 8:00 a.m. to 8:15 a.m., the tall, striking Slovenian with cropped…
GO TO SOURCE MALLESWARAM, INDIA, October 15, 2001: The ancient Nandeeshwara Temple at Malleswaram 17th cross was discovered only three years ago, but it has stood for 7,000 years. According to residents nearby, the temple was completely buried under a flat parcel of land. Three years ago when a politician tried to sell the plot, people requested that the land…
GO TO SOURCE LUCKNOW, INDIA, October 18, 2001: Around 200 Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) activists, led by president Ashok Singhal, entered illegally into the sanctum sanctorum of Ram Janambhoomi in Ayodhya on Wednesday. They worshiped the small Rama icon place there, distributed blessed food and hoisted a saffron flag while the security personnel watched. Police later downplayed the symbolic incident.…
GO TO SOURCE DHAKA, PAKISTAN, October 17, 2001: Prime Minister Khaleda Zia of Bangladesh has said that personnel of the Bangladesh Rifles will be deployed if necessary to ensure that the Hindu community’s biggest festival, Durga Puja, which begins next week, passes off peacefully. Khaleda’s instruction came in the wake of the reported vandalism of Durga Puja venues and attacks…
GO TO SOURCE DHAKA, BANGLADESH, October 15, 2001: The new Home Minister of Bangladesh, Altaf Hossain Chowdhury, has dismissed as “exaggerated” reports of attacks on religious minorities after the general election two weeks ago, saying he had personally visited some of the areas from where such reports had come, but found them baseless. Mr. Chowdhury called the news conference to…
GO TO SOURCE HYDERABAD, INDIA, October 7, 2001: In collaboration with the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad, two temples’ managing committees have agreed to relocate their place of worship. Seetharama Anjaneya Temple at Tolichoki and a temple on the banks of the Musi River have been moved. When places of worship start to interrupt the flow of traffic, which also meant…
Source: Religion News Service USA, October 17, 2001: In October 1978, James Jones got a phone call informing him that his 22-year-old son had been killed in a car accident. “I knew at the time that a phone call was just not the way to deal with a death notification,” said Jones, 65, now sheriff of Shelby County, Alabama. It…