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🔴 RELIGIOUS CRIMES, BIG STORIES, ROWS
🔷 SHANKARACHARYA BAIL – Pre-arrest bail for Shankaracharya in boys molestation case!
Supreme Court upholds pre-arrest bail for Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati in case accusing him of molesting boys!
For Smarta Hindus, this is the equivalent of the pope being arrested! There are 4 maths (monasteries) around India established by the original Adi Shankaracharya. Jyotirmath is one of them. The head of Jyotirmath is Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati. He’s being accused of molesting boys.
In India, “anticapatory bail” is bail BEFORE you’re arrested. Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati hasn’t been arrested yet.
🔷 TRANSGENDER PRIESTS From stigma to sanctity Transgender priests perform rituals in Vizianagaram temple
🔷 STUCK IN TEMPLE CAR WHEEL College student dies after getting stuck in temple car wheel in Tiruchengode
🔷 TAJ MAHAL TEMPLE Indian TV ordered content edits after it claimed Taj Mahal was a Hindu temple
🔷 HANUMAN CASH STOLEN Thieves break into Anjaneya Swamy temple in Jangaon, decamp with hundi cash
🔷 TEMPLE THIEVES 3 held for Gandhinagar temple burglary
🔷 PADMANABHASWAMY DENIES THEFT Sree Padmanabha Swamy Temple panel demands action against cops for submitting ‘false’ report
🔷 STING OP CATCHES PRIEST TN minister’s sting operation exposes Tiruchendur temple malpractices
“S Ramesh caught a priest red-handed seeking digital bribes for VIP entry”
🔴 TEMPLE NEWS, NON-CRIMES
🔷 CONSTRUCTION BAR Bar on construction at Tiruppur temple without heritage panel’s nod: Madras HC
🔴 PILGRIMAGES
🔷 KEDARNATH SUSPENDED Kedarnath Yatra temporarily suspended amid heavy rainfall in Uttarakhand
🔷 LIGHTNING DEATHS 2 brothers trekking to world’s highest Shiva temple die after being struck by lightning
They were going to Tungnath, regarded as the world’s highest Shiva temple in Uttarakhand.
🔴 CELEBS & POLITICIANS AT TEMPLES
🔷 DHARMASTHALA VP Dharmasthala: Vice President P. Radhakrishnan visits Lord Manjunatha Temple
🔴 OVERSEAS HINDU NEWS
🔷 TULSI GABBARD Did Hindu values lead to Gabbard’s resignation?
🔴 MISC: RELIGIOUS
🔷 BREAST CUTTING FOR MOKSHA! Finding sacrifice in stone: Historian finds ‘Breast-Cutting Veeragallu’ sculpture
A rare 10th-century “Breast-Cutting Veeragallu” (Sthanachedana Veeragallu) has been identified at Kodumunja in Vemulawada mandal by noted historian and researcher Karipe Raj Kumar… Veeragallu depicts a rare and extreme act of devotion in which a wife cuts off her breast and accompanies her husband in death in pursuit of salvation, or moksha”
🔷 BONDS FOR TEMPLE First time in MP: Bonds to fund temple development in state
🔴 MISC: NON-RELIGIOUS
🔷 SHIVAJI MAHARAJ – Controversial USA article on Shivaji Maharaj & modern day Hindus
🔷 MANDATORY FAMILY PLANNING Adopt mandatory family planning to bring population under control: BJP Bengal chief to CM
🔴 OTHER RELIGIONS
🔷 BUDDHA RELICS – India transfers sacred relics of Buddha to Mongolia for 10 day exhibition
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