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In the News (Sat 26 Dec 09)

  
 Articles de presse
Mata Amritanandamayi tells the villagers that she is helpless as the government is yet to approve the housing plans proposed by the ashram.
Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, who runs a religious community at an ashram in Kerala and is known as the hugging guru, said the money was earmarked to construct houses for survivors, her website said.
Mata Amritanandamayi, whose Ashram at Amritapuri near Quilon in Kerala is close to the Arabian Sea, led her devotees and volunteers in a great rescue act saving life and offering succour to the survivors.
www.amma-europe.org /french/2005/0108presse.htm   (8786 words)

  
 The Hindu : Kerala / Kollam News : Amritanandamayi Math plans major project for suicide prevention
The Mata said that a recent survey had shown that a good number of those lured or exploited as sex workers were in the age group of 8-13 and these girls need to be saved and rehabilitated.
The Math is constructing 6,200 houses for the tsunami victims in India and Sri Lanka.
The Mata said that her devotees in the United States will be contributing $1 million for rehabilitating those affected by the Katrina hurricane.
www.hindu.com /2005/09/24/stories/2005092404760500.htm   (445 words)

  
 Amma Tsunami Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Mata Amritanandamayi said that if the State Government gave the sanction, the Math was prepared to reconstruct all the houses in the State that had been destroyed in the tsunami onslaught...
Mata Amritanandamayi, also known as Amma or Mother, is best known for hugging people as a form of blessing and therapy...
Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, who runs a religious community at an ashram in Kerala and is known as 'the hugging guru', said the money had been earmarked to construct houses for the survivors of the December 26 disaster.
oneminutepeacemaker.com /Ammatsunamipress.htm   (785 words)

  
 Mata Amritanandamayi - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Amritanandamayi es conocida en los medios de comunicación como 'la santa de los abrazos'.
Mata Amritanandamayi Math realiza varias obras caritativas y humanitarias.
Recientemente, Mata Amritanandamayi Math ha anunciado un billón de rupias (23 millones de dólares) para ayuda a las víctimas del Tsunami del 2004.
es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mata_Amritanandamayi   (716 words)

  
 Hinduism-Mata Amritanandamayi
Amma or Amritanandamayi (today, hugging saint to millions) was born there in 1953, the fourth child of Sugunananadan and Damayanti, poor fisher folk.
Mata Amritanandamayi mutt has donated $1 million in aid for victims of Hurricane Katrina that battered the US in August and Rs 2 billion in tsunami relief aid.
To Mata Amritanandamayi, spirituality is not an excuse to escape from the material world.
dharma.indviews.com /hindu_articles_amritanandamayi.htm   (827 words)

  
 D A I J I W O R L D
Mangalore, Sep 24: The Mata Amritanandamayi Math which was in the forefront in relief and humanitarian efforts post tsunami, has been announced by the United Nations, for the prestigious award of special UN consultative status.
The Mata Amritanandamayi Math, with headquarters at Amritapuri (Kollam District, Kerala), is a registered public charitable trust, fully dedicated to serving humanity without distinction of caste, race or religion.
The Math was founded by Mata Amritanandamayi (Amma), in 1981 to disseminate the message of spirituality, universal love and selfless service to humanity.
daijiworld.com /news/news_disp.asp?n_id=14847&...   (276 words)

  
 Mathrubhumi: Distinguished Model of Service @ Amritapuri.org
Bhuj, Gujarat: The President of India, Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam declared that the service rendered by the Mata Amritanandamayi Math is a laudable model for the entire nation.
Mr.Kalam was speaking after inaugurating the community hall in the Amritanagar village built by the Math for those affected by the earthquake.
The Amritanandamayi Math and the Gujarat government have jointly built more than eight hundred houses in Bhuj.
www.amritapuri.org /media/india/mathrubhumi.php   (554 words)

  
 rediff.com: The Rediff Interview/Mata Amritanandmayi
Over the last three decades, Mata Amritanandamayi, born in a fisher village in a remote coastal village in Kerala’s Kollam district, has been accepted as a spiritual/religious guru not just across India but in the West, too.
Through the Mata Amritanandamayi Math, which constructs home for the poor, organizes pension for widows, medical camps, women’s shelter, orphanages, relief funds for calamities, and so on.
Mata Amritanandamayi is translated as ‘mother of immortal bliss.’ You were born Sudhamani.
www.rediff.com /news/2002/aug/02inter1.htm   (1684 words)

  
 Math Activities
Mata Amritanandamayi Math - The Mata Amritanandamayi Math is a public charitable trust headquartered at Amritapuri, Kollam, Kerala that was founded to promote the message of the 'Divine Mother'.
Math A - Math A is a required course mandated by the New York State Department of Education for high school graduation.
Math A/B - Math A/B is a required course mandated by the New York State Department of Education for high school graduation.
edu.tmadata.com /Math-Activities.html   (556 words)

  
 Amrita TV
Along with the reconstruction of homes, the Math is providing healthcare services, the distribution of free daily meals and essential household items, free training and employment, orphan adoption, and various forms of physical and psychological support to the victims.
It is the Math’s intention to work with various UN agencies to further the tsunami rehabilitation projects and other broad-based humanitarian relief efforts around the world.
M.A. Math’s intention is to broaden the extent of the tsunami rehabilitation work being done within India and the global community at large.
www.ammachi.org /events/un-special-status.html   (548 words)

  
 Mata Amritanandamayi, affectionately called Amma, and her message of love
On May 6, 1981, the Mata Amritanandamayi Math and Mission Trust was founded in the house where Amma was born.
From then onwards, Amma adopted the name 'Mata Amritanandamayi' (Mother of Immortal Bliss) given to her by a brahmachari (celibate initiate) disciple who later blossomed into a poet with the Mother's grace and came to be known as Swami Turiyamritananda Puri.
In 1995, she was invited to speak at the interfaith celebration in New York to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the United Nations.
www.lifepositive.com /Spirit/new-age-catalysts/mata-amritanandamayi/mata-amritanandamayi.asp   (3430 words)

  
 Tourism Pilgrimages in India - Amrithapuri - Amrithanandamayi math - Ashrams of India, Temples, Churches, Mosques
Mata Amritanandamayi Math, is situated at Amritapuri in Vallickavu, a small fishing village near Quilon (Kollam), South Kerala.
Mata Amrithanadamayi's principal teaching is not her words, but the experience of being with her.
Through its branch ashrams, the math conducts regular medical camps, programmes for feeding the poor, distributes pensions to impoverished women, and builds free homes for the poor.
www.webindia123.com /tourism/pilgrim/amrita.htm   (886 words)

  
 Water from 50 rivers for Amma's birthday
Nearly 300,000 devotees are expected to attend the celebrations at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, a spokesperson at the Mata Amritanandamayi Math at Amritapuri in Kerala's Kollam district told rediff.com.
He said other themes that will come up for discussions will be youth education for the new millennium, the role of women in the development of society, science and technology as agents for positive humanitarian change, the role and responsibilities of spiritual and religious organisations in today's world and protecting and preserving the environment.
The Math will also be conducting a mass wedding ceremony for 108 couples from destitute families.
www.rediff.com /news/2003/jul/21mata.htm   (399 words)

  
 UN grants special consultative status to Mata Amritanandamayi Math, a leading ngo in tsunami relief efforts in india.
M A Math has been in the forefront of recent tsunami relief efforts and humanitarian activities in India.
M.A. Math is the only one that is doing broad scaled humanitarian work, including the tsunami relief efforts, in a very cost effective and timely way.
It is the Math’s intention to work with various UN agencies to further the tsunami rehabilitation projects & other broad-based humanitarian relief efforts around the world.
i-newswire.com /goprint38144.html   (825 words)

  
 Cover Feature: Embracing the world; Sept 21, 2003. The Week   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Amritanandamayi, Kerala's hugging saint who straddles the material and the spiritual worlds, is turning 50 on September 27.
Amritanandamayi consoled her, explaining that the brahmacharis were yet to gain full control of their minds.
Today, after two eventful decades, the Math is big, with its imposing structures, presses, canteens, computers, and baby elephant but not big enough to host all her devotees from around the world who want to wish her happy birthday.
www.the-week.com /23sep21/cover.htm   (4787 words)

  
 webindia123-Indian personalities-Religious Thinkers-Mata Amranananthamayi
Mata Amranananthamayi the great spiritual personality lovingly known as Amma or Ammachi, belongs to Kollam, Kerala.
Amma would console her visitors by cradling them in her arms, listening to their problems, gently stroking their backs, and often whispering soothing words in their ears.
The math is now the self contained headquarters of an international charity organization with towering quarters for devotees.
www.webindia123.com /personal/religious/mataamri.htm   (379 words)

  
 Power of love - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Mata Amritanandamayi is reputed to be a practical, sensible person, whose advice to devotees who come crying about impending court cases, family splits or alcoholic husbands, takes the form of precise instructions on what to do, with the added advice to do it with faith in God.
Mata Amritanandamayi’s solutions to problems take many shapes – from working with scientists to research tsunamis, organising pension schemes for needy women, setting up an AIDS hospice, orphanages, hospitals, building houses for the homeless, to making arrangements to address the current ills of society.
The world places great importance on Mata Amritanandamayi’s role as a woman spiritual-religious ‘leader’ and there is the feeling that she can lead the people of the world.
deccanherald.com /deccanherald/may12005/sundayherald1612272005428.asp   (1751 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Jammu & Kashmir
Mata Amritanandamayi Math to adopt villages in quake-hit Uri
On details of the experience in Gujarat and tsunami-affected areas, Math representative said that it had already experience of adopting three villages in quake-affected Bhuj area that was close to the epicentre in Gujarat.
The math also plans to concentrate on the psycho-social counselling of the victim in the area, that was necessitated due to the death of many members in many households.
www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20051026/j&k.htm   (2468 words)

  
 Il Mata Amritanandamayi Math dichiarato consulente ONU | Amma Italia
Il M. Math è la sola che faccia un lavoro umanitario su larga scala, comprese le operazioni di soccorso per lo tsunami e questo con un costo molto contenuto e con grande efficacia.
Grazie allo status di consulente, accordato al Math dalle Nazioni Unite, possiamo ora unire le nostre forze a quelle di questa organizzazione riconosciuta a livello mondiale, in uno sforzo di collaborazione per portare aiuti a lungo termine a coloro che sono stati colpiti dal disastro dello tsunami”.
L’intenzione del M. Math è di elargire il vasto lavoro di riabilitazione dallo tsunami che si è fatto in India all’insieme della comunità in senso largo.
www.amma-italia.it /notizie/2005/07un-ngo-ita.htm   (711 words)

  
 Amma, Mata Amrutanandamayi
Her Holiness Mata Amritananda Mayi's first name was Sudhamani.
She was born in a fisherman's family in the tiny coastal village of Parayakadavu, near Vallikkavu, of Quilon (Kollam) district in Kerala on the 27th of September 1953.
She was found ecstatic and intoxicated with the divine vision with which she experienced becoming one.
www.indiatraveltimes.com /religion/amma_bio.html   (646 words)

  
 The uniqueness of Amma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Mata Amritanandamayi (Mother of Immortal Bliss), 'the hugging saint', grew up and attained fame in a village not far from my ancestral home.
The nucleus of an Ashram was built in 1978 by some of her devotees and what is now a great institution, Mata Amritanandamayi Math, came into being in 1981.
The uniqueness of Mata Amritanandamayi is that her message is simple and she makes no claims to divinity.
www.hvk.org /articles/0706/17.html   (1235 words)

  
 MOVE EARTH AND HEAVEN TO PROTECT THE LIFE OF SREENI PATTATHANAM Petition
His main contentions are: the Math’s claims to miracles are bogus, and that there have been many suspicious deaths in and around her ashram, which need police investigation.
Matha Amritanandamayi Devi (Sudhamani, born in 1953 in the district Kollam, Kerala State, India) is known to the world as the “hugging mother”.
The Mata’s organisation is registered as a social organisation and not as a religious organisation.
www.petitiononline.com /sreenidc/petition.html   (2875 words)

  
 Saint of a woman
In spite of all this, she remains a proverbial fanatic to the "secular" media even though she has vowed not to contest any election, which she can always win by a large margin.
But she was born into a humble fisherman's family in a village called Parayakdabu on a peninsular strip in the Quilon district of Kerala.
Mata Amritanandamayi Math is probably one of its kind in being a multi-faceted charitable and developmental organisation, running into a whopping budget of Rs 1,200 crores.
www.hvk.org /articles/1202/219.html   (1655 words)

  
 News: South Asia: Earthquake and Tsunami - Dec 2004, India: Tsunami-affected people get new homes
Built by the Mata Amritanandamayi Math, the 340 houses will provide permanent shelter to the people of Samanthanpettai, five km from here, where the towering sea waves washed away 140 people Dec 26, 2004.
Mata Amritanandamayi, a spiritual leader from Kerala, handed over the keys of the houses to the people at a function here.
"Mata Amritanandamayi Math is the first organisation to complete a permanent housing project in Tamil Nadu.
www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/RMOI-6KB552?OpenDocument   (286 words)

  
 NEWBOMBAYPLUS - Vashi to Panvel
The Mumbai branch of the Mata Amritanandamayi Math organised an educational aid programme ‘Amrita Tava Sevanam’ recently at its premises.
While appreciating the charitable activities of MA Math, Mumbai particularly the encouragement given on education to the underprivileged through Amrita Scholarships, Amrita Vidyalayam etc, Pawar said, “Those students availing assistance from the Math should do their studies well and after settling in their life, they should also support other children who need educational help”.
Brahmachari Avyayamrita Chaitanya, in-charge of Math Activities in Mumbai said, “When Amma was young, on seeing the suffering of people in and around her village, she used to say that, if all sufferings are due to our past karma, then it is our duty to serve all the people who are under-privileged.”
www.newbombayplus.com /fullStory.asp?articleID=NBP8ART592006   (203 words)

  
 Amma: Sri Mata Amritanandamayi - Official Website for Ireland - Tsunami Relief
The Mata Amritanandamayi Math was the first non-Government Organisation (NGO) to complete the permanent housing for Tsunami victims in India.
Mata Amritanandamayi Math (MAM) is constructing 100 houses at a total cost of Rs.
It is to be noted that the MAM is the first NGO to make an offer to construct permanent houses on the islands.
www.ammaireland.org /tsunami.htm   (811 words)

  
 Amrita Vishwa vidyapeetham, Ettimadai, Coimbatore
This was in response to the clarion call from the Chancellor of Amrita University, Her Holiness Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (AMMA), one of the foremost humanitarian and spiritual leaders in the country, who had instructed all her ashrams in Tamil Nadu at Chennai, Coimbatore and Pondicherry to contribute and participate in the relief operations.
The Mata Amritanandamayi Math is also planning to build houses for the victims of the fl Sunday.
The Math has already built 30,000 houses all over the country for the poor, tribals, slum dwellers and downtrodden under the Amrita Kuteeram scheme in the last 5 years.
www.amrita.edu /news/relief.htm   (621 words)

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