GO TO SOURCE PARIS, FRANCE, June 1, 2001: French Christians are bracing for problems resulting from the passage this week of a controversial new law aimed at controlling the activities of dangerous religious sects, but also likely to affect ordinary churches. Some churches were already considering removing the word “evangelical” from their names, the president of the French Protestant Federation…
GO TO SOURCE KAUAI, HAWAII, May 20, 2001: Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami embarks August 10 on a two-week travel-study pilgrimage through Northern Europe and Russia with 70 devotees and monks. Along the way, Subramuniyaswami will be attending major functions of the Hindu community in London; Hamm, Germany; Oslo, Norway; Stockholm, Sweden; and Copenhagen, Denmark. The chariot festival at Hamm is expected…
GO TO SOURCE KATHMANDU, NEPAL, June 3, 2001: Dozens of stories are now appearing in the world press on the assassination of the Nepalese royal family. This New York Times report is one of the more complete. The king, queen and royal family were cremated yesterday. The report reads in part, “The bizarre massacre of most of Nepal’s royal family…
GO TO SOURCE CALIFORNIA, U.S. May 29, 2001: All across the United States from coast to coast and from North to South, the story is the same, the Asian Immigrant population has doubled in America since 1990. The following data from the U.S. Census Bureau was released this week and focused specifically on the Asian population in various states. Leading…
Source: New York Times TORMVILLE, NEW YORK, MAY 30, 2001: Buddhist meditative practices have begun to take root inside the nation’s prison system. Some organizations, beginning with Zen Mountain Monastery, have moved to help. Deep inside the Green Haven Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison that houses 2,000 men, the Lotus Flower Sangha meets weekly. The group gathers with a monk,…
GO TO SOURCE CALIFORNIA, June 3, 2001: Hindus might want to check out “source” for a Yahoo page dedicated to questions about Hinduism. The site is needing “experts” to provide answers to questions such as, “Why Hindu religion only exist in India? Like Islam and Christians are all over the globe?”
GO TO SOURCE HPI, June 3, 2001: The Tamil Eisteddfod in Laudium, Johannesburg, was conducted in the Tamil language, not in the Afrikaans language as some readers thought. Our report only intended to identify the single word “eisteddfod” as Afrikaans for “festival,” and not to indicate the entire event was in Afrikaans
GO TO SOURCE KATMANDU, NEPAL, June 1, 2001: Nepal’s crown prince opened fire in the royal palace of this tiny Himalayan nation on Friday, killing the king, queen, his brother and sister before turning the gun on himself, a senior military official said. Four others died in the shooting, which apparently stemmed from a dispute over his choice of a…
GO TO SOURCE LAUDIUM, JOHANNESBURG, May 30, 2001: Almost 400 Tamil children from all across the Gauteng province of South Africa attended an annual children’s eisteddfod, “cultural festival” in Afrikaans, hosted by the Gauteng Tamil Federation at the mainly Indian area of Laudium. Students were from various Tamil schools run as community service by the body. “This is a record,”…
GO TO SOURCE BEIJING, CHINA, May 24, 2001: The Shankaracharya of Kanchi Peetham in Tamil Nadu, India, received an official invitation from the Chinese government’s Association of International Friendly Contact to visit in October this year. The details of Jayendra Saraswati’s visit are being worked out. In his seven-day tour, the Paramacharya will meet President Li Peng and other top…