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Today, at 69 years old, Chaitanya Prema Das is a robust, healthy devotee, visiting the Potomac, Maryland ISKCON temple every Sunday and working at the Pentagon. Seeing him, you would never guess that back in 1997, at age 55, Chaitanya Prema was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma—or blood cancer—that had already reached stage four.

Yadunandana Swami recently completed a Sankirtana expedition to Cape Verde, a cluster of ten islands 570 kilometers off the coast of West Africa. It was the first time that Krishna consciousness had been systematically presented in the country, which was a Portuguese colony from the sixteenth century until it became independent in 1975.

If the past has anything to teach us, one lesson might be that plagiarism is alive and well. Ancient news, even that of messiahs, is like a light ray, pure in the beginning but subject to distortion over time. Greed and anger are like magnetic fields that warp the messages like Chinese whisper.

Mumbai: Radhanath Swami was invited for an interfaith dialogue on the topic “Decline of morality in public life: Role of religion in restoring it” organized by K.J. Somaiya Bhartiya Sanskriti Peetham. The Somaiya trust is one of the largest educational trusts in India with 34 institutes and 27,000 students.

Study after study continues to show that eating broccoli helps to prevent and treat cancer. And a new study out of the University of Illinois says that combining broccoli with broccoli sprouts nearly doubles the cruciferous vegetable's anti-cancer effects.

Vishaka Dasi`s new book, recently publishedby Torchlight, is an inspiring story of the her family`s move to rural British Columbia in search of simplicity and harmony Krishna promises for His devotees in the Bhagavad-gita.

In just a few days the Mayapur Institute's Gaura Purnima Courses and the Mayapur Festival will begin. Devotees from around the world will be entering Sridham Mayapur, to access the mercy, spiritual strength and inspiration to continue and expand their services.

The Bhaktivedanta College organizes the international Radhadesh Summer Camp for youth from 12 to 20 years of age. For three weeks, participants will experience the brightest sides of spirituality and will gain a deeper understanding of the values of life in the beautiful Belgian countryside.

On February, 12th and 13th ISKCON Russia celebrated its 40th anniversary. It was in the summer of 1971, when ISKCON founder A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896-1977) visited Moscow, and started to teach and spread the science of Krishna-consciousness in the former Soviet Union.

The 2011 Governing Body Commission (GBC) Annual General Meeting of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) commenced on February 20th in the Society’s world headquarters, Mayapur, West Bengal.

We never cease to be amazed or shocked. Thinking that nothing really surprises us anymore, the shock-value of what could happen to us, intrudes impolitely into our sense of peace and harmony, when fellow devotees are struck by sudden death, earthquakes, accidents, illness and coma.

Foods that have an incredible array of health benefits that go well beyond just their nutrient value are considered `super-foods.` Turmeric is an herb native to Southeast Asia that is a true super-food shown to have remarkable healing and anti-inflammatory properties that are just now being discovered.

ISKCON Devotees in Christchurch, New Zealand are still in shock after a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck on February 22nd, destroying their temple building and shattering the Deities of Nitai-Gaurachandra beyond repair. Incredibly, no one was seriously injured.

A new documentary film called “Nature’s IQ,” set to premier late this spring, aims to inspire open dialogue about alternatives to Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.