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  • 18 Nov 2011
    Pakistani parliament criticizes murders of Hindus

    Pakistan's parliament has condemned the killing of three Hindu brothers at a medical clinic, in an unusual show of support for religious minorities.

  • 27 Oct 2011
    Hindus in the USA seek to promote awareness of Diwali

    The holiday of Diwali is celebrated this week by Hindu adherents all over the world, including an estimated two million in the United States.

  • 10 Nov 2010
    Williams welcomes conversations with Hindus

    Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams has sent a message to Hindu communities for the festival of Diwali.

  • 3 Jun 2010
    Mysticism and resistance

    When religion is invoked as a reason to stand up against injustice, a cynic might say that religion really has nothing to do with it, that the people involved would have taken the same political action anyway. So does religion really have the power to be an effective force for social change? A brief look at mysticism can help us to answer this question.

  • 14 Mar 2010
    Concern over moves to re-impose a state religion on Nepal

    Human rights, faith and minority groups are expressing concern that some Hindu activists are pressuring the Nepalese government to reimpose Hinduism as the state religion.

  • 14 Jul 2008
    Indian Hindu 'epic' on the life of Jesus is published

    A Hindu woman living in India has produced a 900-page poetic epic on the life and message of Jesus following the style of such Hindu classics as Mahabharat and Ramayan. It has been written in Kannada.

  • 20 Apr 2007
    Debate continues about UK Hindu funeral rites

    A leading Hindu organisation has suggested that calls for open funeral pyres at British crematoria are primarily cultural rather than religious, but sensitivity to different funeral sensistivities is needed.

  • 14 Apr 2007
    Hindus seek modification of British cremation law

    Britain's Hindus are pushing to be able to practice open air cremations according to their long standing tradition. This would require a modification of the Cremation Act 1902.