Ken Littman loved to talk, because he had so much to share. Friends said whether the topic was Fall River history, faith, politics, sports, music or the law, he spoke with clarity, conviction, passion and wisdom. Littman, a Fall River native, attorney, politician and pillar of the city’s Jewish community, died Thursday at 72. Littman […]
Feb. 14—JAMESTOWN — The James River Valley System Board of Directors will host a public informational meeting at the Masonic Temple on Saturday, April 13, to gauge interest in acquiring the building for an expansion of Alfred Dickey Public Library. A time for the meeting has not been determined. The library board is exploring the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — The Salt Lake Temple is one step closer to completion today after construction crews placed the final reinforcing steel pyramid on top. More than 800 construction team members gathered to watch it happen. Here’s how Utahns can get real gold out of ATMs The final placement celebrated today comes nearly […]
ABU MUREIKHA, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Pink sandstone spires decorated with deities and the pious soar above what was once a barren patch of desert between Abu Dhabi and Dubai — now the site of the first stone-constructed Hindu temple in the Middle East. The soon-to-open BAPS Hindu Mandir signals how far the United […]
A trio of armed men forced their way into a Buddhist temple in Brooklyn Sunday afternoon and made off with handfuls of cash. Investigators on the scene after a robbery at a Brooklyn Buddhist temple. The armed robbery took place at Watt Samakki-Dhammikaram at 26 Rugby Road in Flatbush around 2:30 p.m. The robbers were […]
A trio of robbers targeted monks at gunpoint at a Buddhist temple in Brooklyn on Sunday, police and sources said. The heartless crooks broke in through the back door of Watt Samakki Buddhist Temple on Rugby Road near Caton Ave. in Flatbush just after 2:25 p.m., cops said. Once inside, one of them pulled a […]
A video of a troop of monkeys brawling on a street in Thailand has been viewed thousands of times in Facebook posts that falsely claim they were heading to a contentious Hindu temple built on the ruins of a mosque in India. The video was shared online in India’s neighbour Bangladesh, which is home to […]
Leaders of a Hindu congregation hoping to build a new temple in Gotha will have to find a different location. Orange County commissioners voted 5-2 on Tuesday to reject the congregation’s appeal of a zoning board ruling which concluded the proposed temple with a 43-foot-tall spire would be a “detrimental intrusion” in the west Orange […]
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi presided Monday over the inauguration of a controversial Hindu Temple. Located in Ayodhya in northern India, the Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir is built on a contested holy site, according to NBC News. The site was the home of a 16th century mosque, the Babri Masjid, until 1992, when Hindu nationalist mobs destroyed it, CNN reported. Why […]
By Sunil Kataria and Saurabh Sharma AYODHYA, India (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Hindus braved biting cold on Tuesday to pray at a new temple to Lord Ram in India’s northern city of Ayodhya, a day after its inaugural by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a site believed to be the god-king’s birthplace. Hindu […]
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated on Monday a giant new Hindu temple, which is built on the site where a historic mosque was destroyed decades ago by radical Hindus, in the north Indian pilgrimage town of Ayodhya. The contentious place of worship in the state of Uttar Pradesh stands on the razed site of […]
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has opened a controversial Hindu temple built on the ruins of a historical mosque in the northern city of Ayodhya, delivering on a crucial Hindu nationalist pledge his ruling party hopes will catapult him to a record third successive term in upcoming elections. The inauguration of the temple, which is […]