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Vietnam’s Buddhists sign deal to promote religion overseas
The Viet Nam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) and the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese (COV) have agreed on a joint programme designed to meet the demands of more than four million overseas Vietnamese to practise religion
Text written for the Conference of ONG - UNESCO - Paris
Let us proclaim one new era, a new humanism
where the term D `foreign would be banished.
Let us not be us not the children of the life.
Let us announce that hunger, the disease, misery,
the contempt, hatred makes insult with humanity.
Dalai Lama to Visit UA in 2011, Bud Walton Arena.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama will offer a public talk in Bud Walton Arena on Wednesday, May 11, 2011, Chancellor G. David Gearhart announced during a news conference Tuesday morning.
Wisdom 2.0’s Conference and Roshi Joan Halifax
If a zen master were sitting next to the chief technical officer of Twitter, what would they talk about? That sounds like a hypothetical overheared at a bar in San Francisco. But this weekend I saw the very thing at Soren Gordhamer’s Wisdom 2.0 conference — named after his book of the same name — when zen teacher and author Roshi Joan Halifax and Twitter’s Greg Pass sat side by side on a panel discussion on mindfulness in modern life
Filmmakers explore diversity of spiritual life in Los Angeles
Jennifer Jessum and Simon Joseph’s documentary film, "Finding God in the City of Angels," will premiere on the film festival circuit. The film profiles more than 40 devotional communities.
Winds of change fail to stir Myanmar
Last September, peaceful demonstrations let the world know that the people of Myanmar had enough of the crushing oppression of the military junta, yet, today, exactly one year later, Myanmar still languishes in a haze of terror and deprivation.
Another year goes by and those monks who are left after the military cracked down after the demonstration are contemplating huge risks once again because the world just didn’t get it last time.
India — Buddha park ready
The construction of the Buddha Memorial Park, which has attracted attention from across the Buddhist world, is nearing completion
USA - Religion in the Public Schools
Parents are the proper agents to determine what religion, if any, their children are exposed to. Public schools have no right to usurp parental authority by imposing religion on schoolchildren. Mandatory prayer, Bible reading or other religious activities sponsored by public schools are fundamental violations of the right of conscience.
Twelve years of women struggle supported by Ekta Parishad
In 1990, 20 women, supported by Ekta Parishad, decided to encroach on a 7-hectare piece of land and to cultivate it with wheat and rice for livelihood.
President-elect Barack Obama’s Remarks in Chicago
It’s the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states. We are, and always will be, the United States of America.
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