(RNS) — Sometime in the late hours of Sunday night (Aug. 10), the welcome sign to the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, a Hindu temple near Indianapolis, was vandalized. “I was shocked that this could ...
The Himachal Pradesh High Court issued a landmark judgment last week stating that temple funds can’t be used or misused by the government. The Division Bench of Justices Vivek Singh Thakur and Rakesh ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi performing Bhoomi Pujan (ground-breaking ceremony) of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, India, Aug. 5, 2020. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Press Information Bureau-Prime Minister’s ...
Hindus are the fourth-largest religious category, after Christians, Muslims and religiously unaffiliated people. The Asia-Pacific region is home to 99% of the global Hindu population, with around 95% ...