Religion News – Newsletter for December 11, 2010

Growth rate of Tibetan exiles plummets

DHARAMSALA – The exiled Tibetan population’s growth rate has declined drastically in the last decade even as literacy levels have gone up, reveals a census report, which also notes that over 94,000 Tibetans now live in India.

The population growth rate of the community has declined from a healthy 2.8 percent, which was maintained for … Original article on : Growth rate of Tibetan exiles plummets.

Nepal celebrates ‘marriage made in heaven’ with India

KATHMANDU – Bands played joyously, Brahmins chanted mantras and women showered flowers as Nepal Friday celebrated a “marriage made in heaven” thousands of years ago and forming one of its earliest social links with India.

The temple town Janakpur in southern Nepal along the Indo-Nepal border, where Hindu epic Ramayana comes alive this time every …. Source article on Gaea Times at  : Nepal celebrates ‘marriage made in heaven’ with India.