The remaining parts of Kazakhstan's only Hare Krishna community are threatened by a court case due to begin on Monday 13 October, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. Karasai Akimat (administration) has brought a case to seize the buildings on the commune – which include a temple – and demolish them. Aysara Uglanova of Karasai District Court stated that "the case is about whether or not to demolish the buildings on the farm."

Vishnupriya Dasi, wife of ISKCON guru Sankarsana Dasa, has been hospitalized after a subarachnoidal brain hemorrhage.

It was October 3rd. A quiet, peaceful morning at the ISKCON temple in Copenhagen, Denmark, gave way to panic when Vishnupriya, who was leading the morning prayers, felt weak and sank to the floor.

This year’s Woodstock in Poland was billed as Europe’s largest open-air music event with 52 rock bands plus Warsaw’s Philharmonic Orchestra, to add a touch of culture. The fields are filled to capacity with an ocean of tents and more than 300,000 young people and, under the leadership of Indradyumna Swami, ISKCON had a large presence.

On the occasion of Dusshera, the students and teachers of Bhaktivedanta Swami Mission School in Mumbai burned an effigy of Ravana.

The celebration of Dusshera, also known as Vijayadashami, marks the victory of Lord Rama over Ravana, the ten-headed king of Lanka, who had abducted Rama's wife, Sita. It also symbolizes the triumph of Goddess Durga over the buffalo demon, Mahishasura.

One of the biggest floods in Indian history has inundated the state of Orrisa since 15 September 2008 when waters from the Mahanadi river surged into almost 20 districts. An estimated 3 million people are affected in what has been described as an unprecedented flood in the Mahanadi river system.

Bhakti Raghava Swami, a proponent of spiritual eco-living, spoke at a meeting of Tulane University's Bhakti Yoga Club in New Orleans, this month.

The club aims to raise an awareness of human life’s essential nature through Vedic spirituality, vegetarianism and eco-friendly living. Since its inception, the forum has won support from the university’s faculty and students.

A few years ago, in a small village in Roscommon County, one of the most rural parts of Ireland, there lived a man by the name of Michael Henmore. He never married and at an early point in his life he became a hermit. He had few possessions except a cow, a horse and a cart, and a small house that time had forgotten. He lived without running water or electricity.

Earlier this year, fourty-eight year old ISKCON member Jagat Guru Dasa was initiated as Bhakti Narasimha Swami. Despite his relatively young age, the ISKCON swami has taken vows to renounce material pursuits to concentrate on passing on the teachings of the movement's founder, AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. He will be given the title of "His Holiness" and the authority to initiate others into this traditional lineage.

HUNDREDS of Hare Krishna devotees celebrated the festival of Rathayatra over the weekend.

The devotees from across the UK descended into Manchester's Cathedral Gardens where they played devotional music.

The Mayapur Academy’s two-month intensive deity worship course culminated last Friday (September 19), with fifty-seven Bengali-speaking students receiving their awards. The majority hailed from Mayapur, while two students each from Bangladesh and Kolkata attended. Most were staff of the Mayapur temple, including priests and department heads.

Devotees at ISKCON’s center in Ludhiana, Punjab celebrated World Holy Name Week with all the enthusiasm they could muster.

From September 13 through 20th, the congregation took turns to chant the Hare Krishna maha-mantra at the temple throughout the day.

On 13 September 2008, devotees from ISKCON center in Ludhiana paid a visit to Central Jail where young men in the age group 18-25 years are imprisoned.

This was not the first time that inmates of Central Jail got a chance to free their souls despite being under arrest for various crimes. Devotees regularly visit the Central Jail to engage the prisoners in various devotional activities including meditation through chanting the names of Lord.

Bhakti Raghava Swami, a proponent of the simple-living, high-thinking lifestyle, visited the ISKCON New Talavana farm in Mississippi from September 12 – 14th to hold a weekend workshop.

The seminar conveyed the urgency of implementing Srila Prabhupada’s vision of varnashram dharma. Varnashram is a traditional vedic social structure of natural vocations and life stages. It is often confused with the birth-based caste system, which Vaishnavas consider to be a missaplication of the original ancient system.

In Vancouver, Canada, a twenty-three year old man has been sentenced to four years in jail for shooting dead his mother at the age of fourteen.

The man is known only by his initials J.A.P. in Supreme Court documents. He and his family were previously Krishna devotees, but at the time of the killing they had since stopped practicing and became disaffiliated with ISKCON.

Time Broadband has entered into an understanding with ISKCON to provide spiritual discourses on their forthcoming IPTV platform.

ISKCON would produce 400-500 hours of content per year, said founder of ISKCON's broadcast ITV Haridas Prabhu.

ISKCON scientist Sadaputa Dasa, also known as Richard L. Thompson, passed away on September 18th, 2008. His body was found at the bottom of his swimming pool at his home in Alachua, Florida, USA, on Thursday afternoon.

A longtime friend of the family, Mother Nancy, said that he had suffered a heart attack, a condition there has been some history of in his family.

Hare Krishna devotees performed at the 21st annual Woodstock music festival in Trutnov, Czech Republic, this August. Organizer Martin Věcheta first invited devotees to the event – which draws 20,000 people – in 1999. Since then, ISKCON has had its own stage at the festival site, and Lord Jagannatha’s smiling face even features on official promotional material for the event.

New York, N.Y.– The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) was among a handful of religious organizations officially sponsoring the 9/11 Unity Walk, a gathering to commemorate the victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks and promote interfaith solidarity and peace-building. The event, now in its fourth year, takes place simultaneously in Washington D.C. and New York.

If you follow the road up from the kimchi pots in Haebangchon, just past Phillies bar, you will discover a Krishna temple right in the midst of the hustle and bustle of the business area. Yet as soon as you enter and close the door behind you, you will be struck by the tranquility and spiritual atmosphere.

Calgary's Hindus celebrated the most famous of India's festivals, the Rath Yatra Festival or Festival of Chariots, on Sept. 6. Celebrated for hundreds of years in India, it one of the oldest celebrations in the world. Millions of people arrive every year to Jagannath Puri, in eastern India, to pull the chariot on which the idols of Lord Jagannath, his brother Balabhadra and his sister Subhadra are seated.