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Kazakhstan Demolishes Devotee homes

The Kazakh government has demolished more than a dozen homes of Krishna devotees. (more)

Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami Passes Away

His Holiness Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami has passed away on 2 October 2006, in Kolkata, India... (more)

Hindus Protest at Kazakhstan's Washington Embassy

Washington, DC: Over one hundred members of a local Hare Krishna temple, the Hindu-Jain Temple Association, and other Hindu organizations and interfaith groups, protested in front of the Kazakhstan embassy (more)

BBT's First Annual Art Seminar

A feature of ISKCON books has been the inclusion of original paintings of traditional Vaisnava subjects (more)

Four Dead In Manipur Temple Blast

Grenades thrown into crowd of Krishna worshippers on most sacred day of year (more)

Ratha Yatra Calendar

The festival of the chariots, is a procession of Lord Krishna in his form of Jagannatha, Lord of the Universe. Traditionally held in Puri, where hundreds of thousands of pilgrims sing and dance in procession, the festival now takes place in cities all over the world. Here are a few ... (more)

Bhaktisiddhanta Video a Fake?

A video claiming to show how the "newly discovered" video of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur is a fake has been produced by Croatian filmmaker and comedian, Devarsi Narada Dasa. (more)

Diary: My Muslim Brother

Indradyumna Swami reflects on the passing of a Muslim friend ...

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ISKCON Convention 2006

For the sixteenth year running, the Radhadesh ISKCON Convention will bring a speakers from around the world to share their knowledge on topics ranging from cooking to Western civilisation ... (more)

Kazakh Authorities Attempt to Evict ISKCON Devotees

Authorities in the Central Asian country of Kazakhstan have ordered the demolition of homes and confiscation of 50 hectares (118 acres) of land (without compensation) owned by ISKCON members ... (more)

IC Meetings Podcast

For the first time, listeners will be able to follow the ICELT Meetings (18-22 April) almost as soon as they happen (more)

Technologists' Sunday Spiritual High

No number crunching at IIT's (Indian Institue of Technology) on Sundays... that's the day geeks get in touch with their spiritual side ... (more)

Footage of Guru Found?

A short, scratchy film of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura, the guru of ISKCON's founder Srila Prabhupada, has been found circulating on the web. If real, it is the only known film footage of Bhaktisiddhanta ... (more)

New Hinduism Textbook

Greenwood Press, one of the world's leading publishers of reference titles and academic texts, released a new textbook on Hinduism last week. Written by independent scholar Steven J. Rosen (Satyaraja Dasa), it is the final volume of a six-part series called Introduction to the World’s Major Religions ... (more)

A Little Corner of Hell

indradyumna Swami's travels take him to Paraguay's notorious Ciudad del Este, a little corner of hell (with its own little corner of heaven) ... (more)

People: Spiritual Warriors

Dorothy Stang was a Catholic nun and human rights activist in Brazil who recently met martyrdom. Less well-known is Hladini Dasi, a Vaisnava nun ... (more)

Big Launch for South African Krishna Temple

The highly anticipated launch of the multi-million rand temple at the corner of Longbury Drive and Pandora Street in Phoenix takes place from December 30 to January 1 ... (more)

Mayapur Festival 2006

Mayapur Festival is a gathering of Vaisnavas that takes place every year at Gaura Purnima (usually in March), the anniversary of the birth of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ... (more)

ISKCON's Statement Regarding Bee Season

On behalf of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, we appreciate the filmmakers' sincere efforts to accurately depict the Hare Krishna movement. At the same time, we are concerned ... (more)

ICJ Volume 11, Out Now

SKCON's journal of dialogue, the *ISKCON Communications Journal (ICJ)*, has just published its eleventh volume. A highlight of this issue is an article by the Vatican's Mons. Felix Machado ... (more)

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Opinions

Opinion: Spiritual Struggle or Power Struggle?

So often the differences between religions underline a feeling of “the other” that turns those who should be friends into enemies. What often follows is behaviour that may not seem very religious at all ... (more)

Opinion: The Mirror of Cartoon Satire

In a recent advertisement on UK television, some reformed Daleks tag along a group of Hare Krishna devotees chanting down the street. Renouncing their exterminating ways, these alien miscreants happily sing in metallic voices, “Peace & Love, Peace & Love” ... (more)

Opinion: I Love My Bike

I have a confession to make—I love my bike. I feel blessed. Every morning and every evening, rain or shine, I ride my bike from home to town, and then back again ... (more)

Opinion: Respect

Respect! The word reverberated in my mind just as I stopped myself from taking her life ... (more)

Travelogue

Travelogues: Diary of a Traveling Preacher: The Last Festival

By the time I returned to Poland after my short visit to Ukraine, the devotees had broken down Krsna's Village of Peace at Woodstock and returned to our summer base on the Baltic coast ... (more)

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