Indigenous/Pagan Voice

More than 400 people have signed a petition to get the statue removed Keith Palmer added: “Our town is named after a saint of the Christian faith, not a so-called earth goddess. What a waste of money anyway at these times of personal financial difficulty for so many. In a way, I am glad it doesn’t [...]

Hindu Human Rights celebrated the first dictionary entry of the word Hinduphobia in mid 2021. Lexico online dictionary, powered by Oxford University Press, recognises the origins of Hinduphobia are mid-19th Century. This is around six decades before the Lexico origins of Islamophobia in 1920s. So why has it taken this long for the human rights [...]

New Converts to Arabism Bringing their Gods to the Iman To Destroy them [...]

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 [...]

Author: Vamsee Juluri Note: an edited version of this was first published in The Print on November 1, 2021. The version below restores some sentences and some links. The meeting between India’s ‘Hindu nationalist’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi and (nobody said “Christian Expansionist”) Pope Francis reminds me of a phenomenon that media researchers have been talking about for over a century now – propaganda. Propaganda is everywhere, even [...]

Candice Reed a math teacher was caught in a video wearing a fake Native American headdress while trampling around the classroom has been doing the same weird trigonometry lessons for almost a decade. Based at John W. North High School in California, the Riverside Unified School District said in a statement that he was on [...]

  Protest new signage in front of Chhatrapati Shivaji’s statue after change in airport management Shiv Sena workers on Monday vandalised and then removed the ‘Adani Airport’ signboard displayed near the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj near the airport in Mumbai, claiming the company was trying to change the name of the airport. “These signboards [...]

Leaders of indigenous groups in Canada said Thursday that investigators have found more than 600 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children. Similar graves, but smaller in number, were discovered in the country a few weeks back. The bodies were discovered at the Marieval Indian Residential School, which operated [...]

The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children.. [...]

“So spoke the Blessed Mary / Oh, my brother, Elijah of Thunder! / How shall I not weep /  When I’m coming from the lands of India …” – Serbian Epic Folk Poetry, Vuk Stefanović Karadžić,  Pjesme, 1814 [...]