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• Shambo centre of temple stand-off

  Published: July 26, 2007, 11:40 am

  Tags: Hinduism

  Vets and animal inspectors were denied entry to the Skanda Vale religious community when they arrived to take Shambo for slaughter on Thursday morning.

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• Officials confirm death of sacred bull Shambo

  Published: July 27, 2007, 4:53 am

  Tags: Hinduism

  Shambo the "sacred" bullock at the centre of a controversial three-month legal fight has been slaughtered, it has been confirmed.

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• The 10-year-old living goddess who divided a nation

  Published: July 31, 2007, 9:04 am

  Tags: Hinduism, Buddhism

  In Nepal she has been worshipped as a living deity since the age of two. But when 10-year-old Sajani took a recent trip to the US, Nepali religious officials threatened to strip her of her exalted status. How would she be greeted back in Kathmandu? And is life for a goddess as divine as it sounds?

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• Hindu man chops off his hand to offer to goddess

  Published: July 31, 2007, 11:11 am

  Tags: Hinduism

  Rajesh Taipuriya, 23, severed his hand using a kukhuri, a curved Nepalese knife, after a service in Nepal where devotions were offered to the popular deity Kali.

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• Man in hospital after armed offering to Hindu deity

  Published: July 31, 2007, 12:12 pm

  Tags: Hinduism, Violence

  This painting of a severed arm by the UK's Katherine Tulloh was the most reverent illustration I could find for this post about a man in Nepal who today chopped off his right hand as an offering to the Hindu...

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• Swaminarayan sect celebrates centenary in US

  Published: August 6, 2007, 11:51 am

  Tags: Hinduism, Baps Swaminarayan Sanstha

  Festive air mixed with spiritual solemnity as the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha, a leading Hindu sect, held a regional round of its centennial celebration in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

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• Burning Man includes Hindu festival

  Published: August 27, 2007, 5:03 am

  Tags: Hinduism, Burning Man

  A traditional Indian rath yatra, or a chariot procession, a Hindu wedding and a life size temple of Lord Jagannath are among the major highlights of this year's annual Burning Man festival in Nevada desert.

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• Swaminarayan sect opens huge temple in Atlanta

  Published: August 27, 2007, 5:52 am

  Tags: Hinduism, Baps Swaminarayan Sanstha

  Built at a cost of $19 million in the Lilburn suburb of Atlanta, the white temple that was inaugurated on Sunday, covers an area two and half football fields long. The BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha has three other temples in North America - in Houston, Chicago and Toronto.

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• Does ritual meditation belong in schools?

  Published: August 28, 2007, 2:33 am

  Tags: Hinduism, The Law, America, Education

  An editor once told me to avoid quoting officials from Americans United for Separation of Church and State because, he said, they lack any constituency and its executive director, the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, often looks like a caricature of a religious libertarian.But this morning, as I listened to a report on NPR's Day to Day about more public

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• Hindu chaplain Rajan Zed leads California Senate in opening prayer

  Published: August 28, 2007, 3:33 pm

  Tags: Hinduism

  Zed's prayer, spoken first in Sanskrit, an official language of India, followed by an English translation, lasted about three minutes - and without any disturbances like the protests that occurred last month when he became the first Hindu cleric to lead the U.S. Senate in prayer.

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• Hindu leader says Christian converts cease to be Indians

  Published: September 4, 2007, 11:37 am

  Tags: Hinduism

  A Hindu religious leader in South Africa has caused a storm within the Indian community by saying that those who convert to Christianity will lose their right to be Indian .

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• Hindu celebrations

  Published: September 4, 2007, 7:08 am

  Tags: Hinduism

  Today Hindus are celebrating the birth of the Lord Krishna in the Janmashthami festival, one of the biggest religious festivals in the world. Here devotees in India are washing a statue of the deity with milk and water. This site is dedicated to the festival and has lots of interesting info about its origins and the 5000 year history of the

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• HOLY FUCK: Airline sacrifices 2 goats to hindu gods

  Published: September 5, 2007, 5:11 am

  Tags: Hinduism, Religion, Wtf, Gross, Sicko, Fuck Religion, Animals, Abc Australia

  These my friends are the articles I read that assure me deep down in the warmest parts of my heart that we will be the end to our own existence. It isnt the animal shit --- It is just the crazy factor of the people. It is hard for me to tell if we are evolving properly --- like in the right way. Maybe I am the one who is fucked up. Maybe I

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• Goats sacrificed to 'fix' airlines plane troubles

  Published: September 5, 2007, 4:01 am

  Tags: Religion Beliefs, Hinduism, Human Interest, Animals, Offbeat, Air Transport, Nepal

  Nepal Airlines has acknowledged that it sacrificed two goats to appease a Hindu god following a spate of technical problems with one of its aircraft.

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• Calmer, karma-chameleon

  Published: September 6, 2007, 7:31 am

  Tags: Youth Ministry, Yoga, Jesus Christ, United Kingdom, Protect Religious Freedom, Hinduism, Bbc, Buddhism, Christianity, Politics, Children, News

  As a child I used to call it the locust position'. This seemed to make sense, since that's kinda what my aunt looked like when she adopted what I was later told was in fact the Lotus Position. Of course at that time I was pretending to be a real boy and following Formula One, so I assumed it meant painful, behind' which again sort of made

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