Hindu Press International

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TORONTO, CANADA, August 6, 2008: Toronto’s yearly Hindu Heritage Festival will be held Sunday, August 10, at Toronto’s Black Creek Pioneer Village, according to the Hindu Federation. The Hindu Heritage Festival will engage the young and old as it celebrates Hindu culture inside Canada and will provide a perspective on how our Canadian forefathers experienced life in Canada.

“The festival will see Hindus come together from the numerous temples located across the GTA. The central Toronto location of Black Creek Pioneer Village makes this event an attractive opportunity for all to enjoy many hours of relaxation, fun and cultural entertainment,” said Pandit Roopnauth Sharma, President, Hindu Federation. It will include live cultural shows, music, dance, shopping, mouth-watering food and more.

The theme of this year’s festival is Culture, Charity and Conservation, which are three fundamental beliefs of Hindu culture.

The Hindu Federation will also leverage the event to highlight the importance of everyday conservation, and the impact everyone can have to improve Planet Earth’s current environmental situation.

For more information visit www.federationofhindutemples.ca

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VATICAN, August 4, 2008 (Catholic World Report): Asia, in particular India, is the most vocation-rich region of the world in producing Catholic priests according to a statistical analysis in the Catholic World Report (July).

While it has been well known that Asia and Africa have shown the highest enrollment of Catholic seminarians in the world, the magazine calculated the ratio of seminarians to Catholics in each of the world’s nations and territories based on 2005 data from the Vatican.
Worldwide there is one seminarian for 9,743 Catholics. In Asia, there is one seminarian for every 3,877 Catholics, three times as much. Over 45 percent of those Asian seminarians are Indian.  India has more seminarians than any nation in the world, although it ranks only 16th in Catholic population.

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