ALBUQUERQUE, NM - This past week, the residents of the Hare Krishna temple vacated their three story building located in the busy heart of downtown. They have relocated forty-five minutes north, along the interstate off exit 154, between Pooja Imports Food Market and Patel Bazaar.
“It was becoming increasingly difficult to preach inside of a city [...]

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MEMPHIS - In what brahminical sources described as strict attachment to the Krishna conscious philosophy, local brahmacarini, Abhava devi dasi, threw herself against the wall on five separate occasions yesterday to clear the path as saffron-clad male-bodied devotees walked past her in several different hallways.
“It is fact,” said two-year adherent, bhakta Randal, “she is nicely [...]

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MUMBAI - What started as a discussion of humility between two residents of the Chowpatty temple has ended in a series of bloody riots that has shocked this Hare Krishna community.
Dozens of devotees, most in traditional religious dress, fought with each other for hours, throwing punches, pulling homemade weapons and hurling Molotov cocktails.
“What they are [...]

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SPRINGFIELD, MO - Area ISKCON book distributor, Bhakta Steve, enjoyed several pages of Beyond Birth and Death by ISKCON Founder-Acarya A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada earlier this month during a slow stretch on 25th Street.
“There just weren’t a lot of fallen souls on 25th that day,” recounts Steve, “I got bored with preaching to the bugs [...]

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JOLIET, IL - Visnupurana dasa and Janavi devi dasi’s plans for their family’s summer vacation are in jeopardy this year if they can’t find a temple within a day’s drive to the Grand Canyon.
“We used to always be able to find all sorts of things to do within four or five hours from almost any [...]

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