Aside from the Bhagavad Gita and a sampling of the vast compendium of Hindu dharmic teachings, relatively few important texts have a comprehensive and detailed modern translation. This is especially true for the Vedas. For insight and understanding in English of ancient texts, such as the Vedas, one must often rely upon translations dating back [...]
After the world suffered another grim reminder of the merciless Islamist ideology, the Solas Centre for Public Christianity warned instead that the re-emergence of Paganism in Scotland was one of the biggest threats to civilization. On Sunday 15 November 2015 the news media carried extensive commentary to the effect that Islamism, as displayed by Isis [...]
November 18, 2015
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Indigenous/Pagan Voice
Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll refused to attend invocation because of Hindu chaplain, calling it ‘a false faith with false gods’ WASHINGTON — An Idaho state senator’s description of Hinduism as “a false faith with false Gods” drew calls from Jewish clergy for an apology. Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll joined two other Republican senators in refusing to attend [...]
September 18, 2015
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Candomblé is a polytheistic religion and worships a number of gods:[4] the orishas of the Yoruba (Ketu nation), spelled Orixás in Portuguese; the voduns of the Fon and Ewe (Jeje nation); and the nkisis (minkisi) of the Kongo (Bantu nation). Religious intolerance: a girl of only 11 years is stoned in the head by Evangelicals [...]
A religious spat has broken out between two neighbours in rural Auckland after one erected a 6.4m statue of the Hindu god Shiva. Ravin Chand told the Herald on Sunday that he installed the 30-tonne religious effigy so that he and his family could pray to it. But neighbour Bryce Watts, a Catholic, said the [...]
In the latest attack on Hindu houses of worship in the US, a temple has been vandalised in Texas horrifying both Hindus and non-Hindus, who have offered to help the temple clean the damage. In the attack at the North Texas Hindu Mandir in Lake Highlands suburb of Dallas, vandals painted symbols of devil worship [...]
April 20, 2015
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A Texas woman explained her unusual mug shot after she was arrested and charged with setting fire to a yoga studio. “Most people can’t understand the smiling mug shot,” Nancy Duarte told KTVT-TV from jail. The 41-year-old Duarte, who goes by Suzanne, said she smiled in the photo to help let go of the anger [...]
March 27, 2015
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News updates
(Humour ) President Obama a undercover Hindu and Hanuman Bhakt ? The conservative right wing Christians tried,but Bit the dust .Obviously when Obama is blessed By Lord Hanuman what can come in between him and his devotee. ? Also Watch Obama attacked and ridiculed over Lord Hanuman [...]
January 25, 2015
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Numerous British and more largely Western neo-Pagans seek contact with Hinduism. They recognize a similarity, both positively and negatively, both in their own religion’s characteristics and in the misfortunes that have befallen it. The extermination in summer 2014 of all the Yezidis (Kurdish Pagans) on whom the Islamic State could lay its hands has reminded [...]
As per my typical “modern-Hindu” upbringing – I was taught to see all other religions in the best possible light, on par with my own. “All religions are a path to the same God” was an often repeated phrase when talking about religion. I remember a member of my family speaking in praise of Prophet [...]
July 15, 2014
Rajesh Patel
Analysis/Insights