ISKCON News: ISKCON Joins Mummers Parade
With roots in pre-colonial America, Philadelphia's New Year's Day Mummers' Parade of elaborately costumed string bands and colorful floats has been a city-sponsored classic since 1901. This year's parade was…
ISKCON News: Relieving the Relieving the Religious War
A brief look at the worldwide activities of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness Relieving the “Religious” War Years of bitter fighting, terrorist bombings, armored cars, and patrolling troops have…
ISKCON News: Book Distribution Climbs 34.5% in 1975
Defying the serious recession that slowed the world economy in 1975, ISKCON devotees increased their sale of Krishna conscious literature last year by more than one third over 1974. The…
ISKCON News — Srila Prabhupada on Tour
A recent tour of Africa took Srila Prabhupada through East and South Africa, and to the island state of Mauritius, six hundred miles off the coast of Madagascar. There he…
Farm Report: New Tennessee Farm
ISKCON devotees from Atlanta purchased a 250-acre farm in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains of southern with beautiful green hillsides for pasturing the cows.…
ISKCON News: Courts Rule in Favor of Krishna!
Two recent court decisions confirming ISKCON's right to conduct its public programs have increased the scope of the Society's activities.The judge declared that the thirty devotees going to the fair…
Farm Report
Every day each family puts their supply of milk into one big pot with a fire under it and takes out as much as they need for drinking and cooking…
ISKCON News: BBT announces Caitanya-cartiamrta
The BBT is proud to announce the completion of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta. This classic presents the life and teachings of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who initiated the Hare Krishna movement 500 years…
ISKCON News — Festivals of Krishna Consciousness
THE DEVOTEES of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness are preparing for a number of important upcoming festivals that are celebrated every year. These festivals are great transcendental opportunities because…
ISKCON News October 1973
THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS has recently opened centers in Birmingham, Alabama; Capetown, South Africa; Caracas, Venezuela; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Ottawa, Canada; Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico; Santo Domingo, Dominican…
On the origin of life
the Bhaktivedanta Institute members at the "Life Comes From Life" Conference in Vrindavan conclusively proved that life can't possibly come from chemicals and that—as we see daily—life comes from life.…
Every Town and Village: New Era For ISKCON in India
When Bhakti Vikash Maha-yogi Maharaja saw the vigorous missionary work of the ISKCON devotees, he knew that they and their spiritual master Srila Prabhupada are bona fide followers of Srila…
ISKCON News: Kidnapped Devotee’s Ordeal Ends
Professional "deprogrammers" forcibly abducted her. For five days they threatened her with physical torture, confiscated her prayer beads, and derided the Bhagavad-gita. On the sixth day she escaped.…
Krsna Celebrations Draw Thousands
Recently, Western and Indian devotees came together at ISKCON centers worldwide to celebrate the day, some fifty centuries ago, when Lord Krsna made His appearance on earth.…
Every Town and Village: ISKCON Goes on the Air in Memphis
Every Tuesday night in Memphis, Tennessee, the transcendental sounds of a two-and-a-half-hour Hare Krishna radio show fill the Southern airwaves, courtesy of station WEVL, 90.3-FM.…
Every Town and Village: Fiji Welcomes a Dancing Krishna
There's a striking new landmark in Lautoka, the second largest city in the Fiji Islands. It's the Krishna-Kaliya temple, opened last August 28 by the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.…
Every Town and Village: Book Distribution Breakthrough
The Hare Krishna [people] are in the airports—protected by the First Amendment—and they will remain in the airports. So what do we do about it? Manage it.…
Every Town and Village – Devotee Foils “Deprogrammers”
Titled "Deprogramming Failure," the Post article recounts twenty-four-year-old Megha-devi dasi's kidnapping, her attempted "deprogramming," and her successful effort to fool her captors and return to the Washington, D. C., Radha-Krishna…
Every Town and Village: Deprogramming smashed in courts
ISKCON has defeated a highly publicized challenge to the authority and value of its spiritual teachings. On March 17, New York State Supreme Court Justice John J. Leahy threw out…
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