say "amen." >> catholic hindus do. >> catholic hindus? >> get to feel guilty before hundreds of gods instead of just one. >> but you're a hindu first? >> none of us knows god until someone introduces us. >> reporter: so is a film about a man's search for god aimed at helping audiences find god? >> you know, you cannot tell somebody a story, or show them a movie, for them to believe in god. it wouldn't be that easy. you have to go through suffer and pain, you have to be in awe. you have to go through tests to believe in god, or not believe in god in some cases. >> to my mind it doesn't say you have to believe in god, it doesn't say you shouldn't believe in god. it says have faith in the stories that take you through your experience with life and if they take you to god, they take you to god, and if they take you in other directions, that's fine, but listen to the stories. >> reporter: and as pi himself says in telling his story, "you'll decide for yourself what to believe." for "religion and ethics newsweekly," i'm deborah potter in new yo

yes. >> i thought the 1, 2, 3, 4 pattern. >> good. >> that's counting in hindu. you know how to count to 4. see. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. >> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. >> pause. >> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. >> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. pause. >> that's a rhythmic pattern that repeats itself 3 times about did you know we are doing multicasion and dividing up here? you didn't. so, this music we are dancing on is rhythmicly complicated the underline rhythmic does not go in a straight line. it goes if a cycle beginning on 1 and ending on 1. we are dancing on a 16 beat cycle. you can count to 16. why don't you keep the cycle and we will put a high on top of that. count with one and you can clap. 13, 14, 15, 16, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, >> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. >> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. >> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. >> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. >> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. did you know what you just did? >> you divided 16 into 3 equal parts. i bet you didn't think that was possible i know a physicist that didn't think it was possible. we are rocket scientists. half of you count 16, half do the t high. you can do it. first you try the 16. don't do the t hi

celebrated on the second lunar day of the hindu calendar month of partheek. you know, duali. (cheers and applause) folks, we've all already been bombarded by duali commercials for weeks now. at least until we've taken down the vijay dashami decorations. dali is when hindu families light clay lamps and set firecrackers to scare away evil spirits and occasionally fingers. (laughter) they may come to an end because the indian president is calling for a pollution free diwali with bangalore asking citizens to refrain fire from fireworks after 10:00 p.m. to limit air and noise pollution. folks, my tandoori pot doth boil over with rage paneer. so i'm giving a wag of my finger to the president of india. folks, this jerk is just another liberal non-believer ruining the true meaning of diwali. first they took the christ out of christmas. next they're taking the christ out of diwali. i'm pretty sure he's in there someplace. these people worship a lot of gods. they're going to leave out the one who's famous? i don't think so. what's next, a set of wishing someone the traditional dwali ki

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police dogs are decorated with paint and garlands for a hindu festival. hot shots, pictures coming in from around the world. >>> president obama's inauguration is still a couple months away, but with all the talk of scandal dominating washington right now, it's starting to feel like his second term has already begun. here's cnn's john berman. >> so, wolf, it took like 76 hours for the president's re-election to get subsumed in the whole petraeus/broadwell/alan/kelley mess. it may be the perfect introduction to the realities of re-election. it really is enough to give you second thoughts about that second term. >> reporter: president obama, you were just elected to a second term. what are you going to do next? go to disney world? doubtful. embark on immigration reform? possible. avoid the fiscal cliff? maybe. but if history has taught us anything, perhaps the first thing he should do is lawyer up. we're not suggesting the

jews have said similar thing, a hindu divinity and incorrespond natured in earth. you can find hdu temples that will have christmas eve devoted to jesus. >> you know about the doctrine of the virgin birth. >> yes, i do. >> that means that mary conceived independently of any male traditionally instrumentality. how many non-christians believe in the virgin birth? >> you're really quizzing me today, aren't you. >> this is all in your book. >> it's about half, it's about half, that's right. >> what do you make of that? non-christians, half of them believe in the virgin birth? >> well, what i make of it is that a lot of non-ch"tians are a lot of orthodox than non-christians are. interesting. hindus are going to say things much more orthodox in many things than, you know, i tearians were, or for that matter a liber conegationist church. >> jesus' image is adaptable. you speak in your book about mr. rogers, jesus, the humanitarian jesus, the gentle jesus, is that right? >> that's right. >> and you see that as a retion to the calvinism which was cold a preached predestinat

hawaii made tulsi gabbard the first hindu congresswoman.joins us now from new york. good morning. >> thank you for having me this morning. >> we're excited to have you here. how does it feel? >> thank you so much. i'm excited and ready to get to work. >> you have a lot of work to do, too, let me tell you. >> yes. >> but let's talk about your religion because, you know, a lot of us think that it's pretty cool to have a hindu in congress for the first time. do you feel like you're something unusual? >> you know, i'm actually very proud and i'm proud especially of the people of hawaii and to come from a place as special as hawaii because not only did they make the choice to elect me, the first hindu member of congress, but also elected the first buddhist member of the u.s. senate. and in hawaii, hindu and buddhists are a majority in faith within the community but it shows the respect, diversity, and love and aloha that people have in hawaii to allow for something like this to happen. >> normally we expect for something to take the oath of offi

there was a lot of cross-living with a hindu and a jew and an american.with a family that was essentially an indian family where girls are not valued as highly as boys are, i think that it was important to me to have an identity. and that, i guess, was one way of establishing it, of saying, this is my thing. this connection i have with trees is mine, and for whatever reason, when i would come home from school, i would throw my backpack in the house and go climb a tree and learn that, in fact, there is a whole area of academia of life, of understanding nature and communicating it with people. when i first started out doing canopy research, i was one of a very small number. literally a handful of people who were doing canopy research. it wasn't a field of study. i happened to meet a guy named don terry who was pioneering techniques of using mountain-climbing equipment to get up into the forest canopy. he taught me how to shoot lines way crossbow. he taught me to you to use the cross lines to get up there. this is a caster, what i use to get the line up in t

the hindu festival is being celebrated. festivities take place over a number of days, but today is the main focus of family traditions. >> the hindu festival of lights is being celebrated across india. a wide variety of items that people decorate their homes with, you'll find people wearing new and colorful clothes over the five day festivities. it's also considered a good time to buy cars, homes and jewelry. that's because it's a festival honoring the god es of wealth, lakshima. it's tradition to offer prayers, and that's what's happening here in our office. it's considered a particularly nice spirit, so even though it is a national holiday, stock markets are open for trading. but it is at nighttime when india's streets really come alive with the festivities. homes and shops are lit up with hundreds of lights and fire crackers are burst as families come together to celebrate one of india's biggest festivals. >> and to all of you celebrating, happy duvali. and the pentagon has said the top american commander in afghanistan,

dancers show the hindu aspect of the dance by using the positions of our hands we will show you we are decorating the stage and make a water picture and cleaning the stage with the water. plucking flowers and decorating the stage with the petals of the flowers. we will awaken the 5 senses through the blowing of a conch shell. we will demonstrate the 3 duty, creator, producer and the destroyer in order to make way for new creation. [music] [applause] good morning. afternoon, actually. so, as you can see this is an elaborate dance form and has many hand movements which have a specific meaning. in the piece we are about to show you and share with you we will actually pi lly teach you d movements. this means to tell a story. in old times they would travel and tell the stores about the events of the timeses. i need you all to stand up to learn these. excellent. take a stretch. lift our arms up high to the sky. we will start by creating trees. we will turn our arms into tree branches. our finger tips into leaves and we will sway in the breeze. when the wind picks up we will sway faster. we w

the enemy is muslim, christian, atheist, hindu, jew. he is our collective face, our evolution, the devolution, the ripening of long injustices. thank you. the next poet is michael palmer. >> what of that wolf hound at full stride. what of the woman that serves as fairl guide and witness to the snowy hive? what of the singer robed in red and frozen at mid-song? and the stone, its brokenness, or the voice oft seen that says note the dragon seen but asking no questions of flight, no questions of irridescence, what of that century, did you see it pass? what of that wolf hound at your back? and then a poem that is for mahmud darlish called the dream of narcissus. the dream of narcissus, that there would be a silence loud as time. the dream of the writer that there could be a silence loud as time, the dream of time that rest might come, the dream of rest, that unrest might arise. the dream of the palm, the pilgrims would enter the village. the dream of the village, that they depart with their palms and the house dreaming of his leveling and t

could have been stopped this woman from india, savita halappanavar, recently seen here, marking a hindu festival and expecting their first child. she was 17 weeks pregnant in late october, when she came to the hospital here complaining of severe pain. when doctors told her she would miscarry her child, they pled for an abortion, but were refused because the fetus still had a heartbeat, this is a catholic country, they were told. in fact, ireland is less of a catholic country. as immigrants like savita change the country days later, she died. he described their last desperate moments. >> they were trying to pump her heart, the doctor just told me we lost her. >> reporter: her death has started up a heated debate on abortion in ireland where decades of confusing laws say abortion is illegal, unless the mother's life is in danger. but the government never offered guidance on the specific risks that leave a life in danger, leaving doctors afraid to perform such surgeries. even in extreme cases, like savita's >> we have lived with this for 30 years, do something about it. >> reporter: but de

dancers show the hindu aspect of the dance by using the positions of our hands we will show you we are decorating the stage and make a water picture and cleaning the stage with the water. plucking flowers and decorating the stage with the petals of the flowers. we will awaken the 5 senses through the blowing of a conch shell. we will demonstrate the 3 duty, creator, producer and the destroyer in order to make way for new creation. [music]

the 113th congress will still have a protestant majority, but for the first time, it will include a hindu representative, a buddhist senator and the first member to self-identify as a "none," meaning no religious affiliation. the percentage of catholic members grew, up to 30%, while the total number of jews dropped slightly. >>> in other news, the church of england will be keeping its policy of no female bishops. at the church's general synod meeting this week, delegates failed to approve a measure that would have allowed women to serve as bishops. the measure needed a two-thirds majority to pass, and it fell short by just a handful of votes. several other anglican jurisdictions have female bishops, including the u.s., australia, new zealand and, as of just last week, southern africa. the current archbishop of canterbury rowan williams and his newly-named successor justin welby had both supported the measure. >>> the vatican announced this week that prominent american activist roy bourgeois has been dismissed from the priesthood because of his participation in a ceremony to ordain a femal

what might you say to who i just mentioned, the first hindu and the first buddhist when you see themlls for the first time? what might you say to them? >> well, what i'll say to them is, welcome to congress. look forward to helping you in any way i can. and what i have been, after the greeting and after recognizing their status as a member of congress without regard to race, religion, or anything like that, then i might say, you know, let's talk about how we can promote religious tolerance for all people. let's talk about how we can be faithful to constitutional promise of inclusion for all faith traditions. and let's build on that. i would recommend don't hide. don't minimize. but also, don't let your religion define you. i mean, you're also -- nobody can get to the u.s. congress based simply on a religious identity. you're here because of your business background, your education background, whatever it is. and let that really be what defines you. remember, when jackie robinson broke into the major leagues, he was the first black baseball player but if he didn't get any hits, he wou

hindus make up 22% of the population. up to tell the story of good and how to conquered evil, key stories celebrated during the five-day festival. >>> i'm suzanne malveaux. we are waiting the white house briefing. reporters gathering there. jay carney will take questions clearly on any foengs cabinet shakeups and the scandal that has shaken up washington as well. talking about another high-ranking military officer caught up in a scandal that brought down former cia director general david patreaus. talking about john allen under military investigation for allegedly sending inappropriate e-mails to jill kelley. now she's the woman whose complaints led to the resignation of patreaus. general allen is the top u.s. commander in afghanistan. nominated to become nato supreme commander. he has denied any wrongdoing. so, how are these people linked in this scandal? we'll walk you through this. general patreaus resigned after admitting to have an extramarital affair with his biographer, paula broadwell. the affair uncovered because

. >>> hindus arnold the world celebrate the festival of lights tonight. the five day festival of diwali started today. it's an official holiday in 11 countries including india, sri lanka and singapore. it marks the triumph of good over evil. >>> still ahead tonight a celebration is spoiled by a scandal inside the beltway. that's coming up. >>> the story of paula broadwell and the downfall of general petraeus has a connection to another washington. the little one. 70 miles shutoff d.c.. you probably -- south of d.c.. you probably heard of the famous five star inn at little washington. that's where broadwell and her husband were to celebrate her birthday friday. the same night she became a household name. peggy fox returns from washington, virginia. >> oh my god. what happened? can you believe it? >> reporter: it's the five star inn at -- five star inn at little washington that's put washington, virginia on the map. now azannal worthy of the big washington is making its mark on the tiny picturesque town. >> this kind of thing is happening in our sleepy litt

lazuli blue stone was so rare and expensive, you had to get it from afghanistan, you had to hike up the hindu kush mountains, so it became tied to either the royalty or the most important cathedrals, to show that they were the ones capable and wealthy enough to get this resource. >> you might call this an illuminating experience. these students now have a new appreciation for what it once took to make a book. >> they just like discovering how long an average illuminated manuscript might take -- three to five years to make a single book is sort of a wow factor. >> i used to think that manuscripts were just like pictures of things that were just, like, beautiful. and then now i think that it's really hard to make and it takes a lot of work and that it really reflects on history. >> there's one more very important part of history here at the morgan library. >> and we have, as i call it, "the big bang of writing" in our library. >> that's the famous gutenberg bible. it's the first book printed with moveable type, meaning it was made with the help of a machine. that sped up the process of printing

for hindus, the five-day festival of diwali, known as the festival of lights begins tuesday. also, this week, orthodox christians begin observing advent, with the nativity fast, part of their spiritual preparation for christmas. and on thursday some muslims will mark al-hijira, the islamic new year, which commemorates the migration of the prophet muhammad and his followers from mecca to medina in the year 622. >>> finally, this veteran's day weekend, we have a special report from lucky severson on new opportunities for veterans returning from service overseas, especially those who have been injured. the vets learn that their skills and discipline are still needed. their communities are helped. everybody wins. >> hut, left right, left right, left right. >> these are all vets from all branches of the service, iraq and afghanistan vets embarking on a new mission for themselves and their communities, today, trading their military uniforms for a blue shirt. >> i want you to stand up now if you believe that you have more to give and that you're an asset to your country. >> this is

winner of the employees were overtime packing batches fireworks before the hindu festival which startsday. a more international news. a bomb nearnd of syria. you are seeing a video from a similar attack that happened y.sterda smoke could be seen rising into the air. the jet struck an area near the turkish border five times within a. period of 10 minutes. >> thank you very much. 5:09 is the time. degrees. good morning! wow. want to start the day with something heart healthy and delicious? you're a talking bee... honey nut cheerios has whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol. and it tastes good? sure does! right... ♪ wow. delicious, right? yeah. it's the honey, it makes it taste so... ♪ well, would you look at the time... what's the rush? be happy. be healthy. morning karen m. jacqui jeras. 5:12. 47 degrees. -- i am jacqui jeras. adam caskey here. rocking the rain gear this morning. the sturdier umbrella. a bit of a breeze that up.icking at times it could be 15 miles per hour. 42 degrees. we are in potomac. off 270 off montrose road along 270. traffic at speed despite the rain a

if you start with professor dabbe's story with the hindus with the river gandhi's. and then you go on to the north west coast native americans who believe that the first woman emerged from the sea. christianity is with baptism and even the islam's the suffies love the picture less love the water more. and even the ramtha's sharing the grace of water. it seems like there this biologically innate thing of humans need water, you need water; you can live without food for a longer time than you can without water. and it took us back to care of the earth-- because that's where the water comes from and what we rely on. so, i think if we focus on natural resources as a commonality which is already important to all these faiths, maybe that's the place to start. >> and an inter-connectness to water, to rivers to i mean you can see the tendrils almost in a mystical way going through the planet beautiful. yes, suzanne, i thought we --- >> you are on fire too? >> yes. >> but, i just spent the week kind of thinking about things too and i found this, which i had saved. it was a sp