KATHMANDU, NEPAL, January 14, 2023 (BBC): Converting people to another religion is illegal in Nepal, but missionaries are willing to risk prosecution to spread the Christian faith. “Victory to Jesus,” Korean pastor Pang Chang-in cries as he blesses a new church in the village of Jharlang, in the foothills of the Himalayas. Missionaries, many of them South Korean like Pang,…
NETHERLANDS, January 16, 2023 The Guardian): Ingrid de Sain is one of thousands of dairy farmers in the Netherlands who says she sometimes lies awake at night. Since a court ruling in 2019 which found the Dutch were breaking European environmental law, her farm of 100 cows in north Holland has been illegal. Like the other 2,500-plus farmers whose environmental…
AHMEDABAD, INDIA, January 17, 2023 (GG2.net): His Holiness Pramukh Swami Maharaj (1921-2016), the fifth spiritual successor of Bhagwan Swaminarayan, was on Sunday, January 15th, given a grand devotional tribute in the closing ceremony of his centenary celebrations in India in the divine presence of HH Mahant Swami Maharaj, his spiritual successor. In the month-long festival, more than 12 million people…
INDIA, January 13, 2023 (The Week): In the first week of November last year, Dr. Vishal Changela was attending patients at his clinic in Ahmedabad. In December, the focus changed completely and he was seen in the field, braving chilly winter from morning till late evening. A pediatric cardiologist, Dr. Changela, has been attending guests at the Pramukh Swami Maharaj…
AHMEDABAD, INDIA, January 13, 2023 (Face2News): Together with the ordination of 46 youths as parshads recently, this marks a total of 104 youths from around India and the world receiving ordination from Mahant Swami Maharaj on the occasion of Pramukh Swami Maharaj’s Centenary Celebrations. The date held extra historical significance as it was exactly 83 years ago today that Pramukh…
BHAKTAPUR, NEPAL, January 7, 2023 (Sentinel): Month-long fasting of Madhav Narayan has formally begun in Nepal with Hindu devotees gathering on the embankments of rivers to worship Lord Vishnu. Devotees keep fasting for a month and devote themselves to Lord Vishnu performing various rituals. On the first day of the fasting, they took a holy dip at Hanuman Ghat of…
INDIA, December 17, 2022 (Scroll.in): On a warm morning in Madras in November 1915, theosophist Annie Besant saw a new employee enter the office of her fledgling newspaper, New India.The 43-year-old Irishman, James Henry Cousins, had just arrived in India to work as the paper’s literary sub-editor. Born in 1873 in Belfast to a family of modest means, Cousins’ literary…
IRVINE, CALIFORNIA, December 25, 2022 (Hinduism Today, by Rutvij Holay): From It became One, from one became Two, from Two became Three, from Three became all things in the Universe. Replace It with Brahman, Siva Vishnu or whichever God you believe to be the representation of the Supreme depending on your sampradaya, and you find yourself telling one of the…
PRAYAGRAJ, INDIA, January 7, 2023 (Krishi Jagran): Magh Mela is a well-known Hindu religious celebration that honors Lord Brahma, who has been given the title of Creator, for creating the universe. The festival includes a number of yajnas, prayers, and rituals that are intended to honor and celebrate the origin of the universe. On the occasion of Paush Purnima, the…
MIDDLETON, WISCONSIN, January 2, 2023 (India West): American Girl, a cornerstone in the Mattel portfolio, unveiled its 2023 Girl of the Year: Kavi Sharma. Kavi’s character comes to life in a beautiful 18-inch doll, featuring brown eyes, medium skin tone, and layered dark-brown hair styled in a half ponytail. “Whether it’s singing show tunes or learning new dance moves, Kavi…