Global Hindus

Far-right Islamists for over a week on social media have been making threats of violence and rape against Hindus and have been asking other Islamists to join them to come down to #Leicester today to start their witch hunt of 'Pagan Kafir' Hindus. But instead, Hindus turned up in numbers to protest against them. [...]

A meeting of influential Hindoos was held in Benares, to listen to an account of a visit paid by Kaboo Surajee to the Australian colonies, and to receive a proposition to form a Hindoo Missionary Society for these countries. The chair was taken by Maharaja Hyder Sawib who opened the proceedings by welcoming the distinguished [...]

An ISKCON temple has been vandalised in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka just a night before the festival of Holi. A mob of 200 miscreants attacked the temple, desecrated the idols & looted it. 3 devotees sustained injuries in the incident. Radharamn Das, the vice-president of Kolkata ISKCON has condemned the incident. He requested the Bangladesh govt [...]

Dr Igor Polikha, Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of India urged people of India to pray for the safety of Ukrainians to Lord Shiva on the eve of MahaShivaratri. While speaking with the Indian Media he Dr Igor Polikha, Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of India urged people of India to pray for [...]

Canadian MP Chandra Arya in the Canadian Parliament today called out to distinguish between the Hindu religious sacred symbol Swastika and the Nazi symbol of hatred called Hakenkreuz in German or the hooked cross in English [...]

Dozens of people gathered at the Laxmi Narayan Temple in Surrey, B.C., on Saturday afternoon to protest what they describe as the offensive use of a Hindu deity in a B.C. company's logo. The protesters accuse the company, Big D--k Energy Coaching, of using inappropriate language underneath a photo of Lord Ganesha — a deity with an elephant head, known as the Hindu god of wealth, sciences, knowledge, [...]

Priests and devotees at temples in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) are in a state of fear as half-a-dozen such places of worship have been vandalised and burgled over the past ten days, with cash stolen from donation boxes and even ornaments adorning idols stolen. [...]

Hinduphobia, of course, has not been clearly argued or presented, despite being a word with a far longer anti-colonial, anti-“White supremacy,” history than a word like Islamophobia, it remains stuck in fringe social media usage because of the sheer obliviousness of our Starbucks activist upper class Hindus. Hinduphobia is not seen as a human rights reality [...]

Unlike most Hindu orgs run by self-appointed Hindu spokespeople who don’t even know the ABC of Hinduism or have the skills to articulate the Hindu cause , Australian Hindu Association has a clear strategy backed by active Hindus along much more as explained by Shree Amendra Singh,Councillor Suman Saha and Namrata Singh. Check for more [...]

A Roman Catholic priest is collecting and saving hundreds of traditional pre-Christian religious artefacts in southeast Nigeria that new converts to Christianity had planned to burn. The collection includes carvings of pagan deities and masks, some of them more than a century old and considered central to the pre-Christian religion of the Igbo people, who traditionally [...]