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If all goes well, Hindu temples across India could soon have an apex body. A two-day meeting of temple bodies, including one from Nepal, began here Saturday to examine the possibility of forming a national trust for temple management.
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A Christian’s presence in a Hindu temple in Kerala prompted the priests here to repeat all the rituals to keep the sanctity of the offerings intact.
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An American woman who claimed she had converted to Hindusim but was denied entry into the ‘Hindu-only’ Lingaraj temple in the Orissa capital, said she would continue her struggle to seek entry even as the Congress and a major Hindu group announced support for her.
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When he steps out of the Bhopal Central Jail after completing his sentence for murder, Dinesh Tiwari hopes to become a priest for which he is being trained at the prison. Authorities at the jail in the Madhya Pradesh capital have started a programme to train Brahmin Hindu inmates in religious rituals as part of steps by the Bharatiya Janata Party government to reform prisoners.
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If children love hot dogs, pizzas, chocolates and cola, surely their goddess too will like these. That’s exactly the thought behind these unusual offerings made by devotees at a temple of Jivantika Mata, a goddess of children, according to the Hindu scriptural text Skanda Purana.
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Hundreds of tribal Jews in Mizoram in India’s northeast are giving finishing touches to a ritual bath under the supervision of Israeli rabbis that could serve as their passport to that country. A team of rabbis, including Israeli architect-rabbi Doron Malka, is overseeing the construction of the ‘mikvah’, or Jewish ritual bath, in the state capital.
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Cinemas in a town in Gujarat state have begun screening a public service announcement challenging religious conversion. The infomercial suggesting that changing one’s faith is impossible was ostensibly made to educate audiences about the state anti-conversion law, which prohibits conversion “by the use of force or allurement or by fraudulent means.” The law is not yet in effect.
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An increasing number of Muslim women in Kerala cutting across class and age barriers are wearing the burqa. In earlier times, Muslim women used to sport just a scarf.
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Indicative of changing times, a traditional Muslim family in this Uttar Pradesh capital arranged their daughter’s nikaah ceremony over the Internet.
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Buddhism in India’s northeast is fast losing its originality with cultural fusion threatening this centuries-old faith, experts said at a seminar which revolved on ways to maintain the faith in its original form. Although a miniscule percentage of the northeastern region’s 39 million people practice Buddhism, the religion has been followed by various tribes and plains people there from the third century BC onwards.
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