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In every ISKCON temple around the world, the morning greeting ceremony is held to the sweet, gentle sounds of “Govindam Adi Purusham” sung by the late Yamuna Devi. Not in Simhachalam. There, new visitors are startled by a ground-shaking crash of thunder, followed by Vedic brahmanas chanting “Om Narasimhaya namaha.”

ISKCON Communications has received a grant from Odyssey Networks, America’s largest multi-faith production company, to produce thirteen short films for its Call on Faith app for smartphones.

Religious leaders from diverse faith organizations recently published a statement for the G8 leaders who met at Camp David this past week.

The devotees were on their way to a pilgrimage at Nepal’s Muktinath Temple, located at the foot of the Thorong La pass in the Himalayas. Reports suggested that the small airplane lost balance due to strong winds, hit a hillock, and broke into pieces just after the pilot reported a problem at around 9:45am local time.

Getting diagnosed with type-2 diabetes can do a lot of things to your perspective: Your life, your priorities, your family and even your food.

On the 5th of May, over a hundred Hare Krishna devotees from all over Russia gathered in Kursk to celebrate the opening of the new center.

Prof. Joseph O'Connell suddenly passed away on 5 May, at the age of 72. He has been a friend to Vaisnavas in the Academy for decades. He was an exceptional scholar, who did much for the study of Gaudiya Vaisnavism. He met Srila Prabhupada several times while he was working on his PhD dissertation at Harvard, and always spoke fondly about him.

Many ISKCON devotee parents are finding that traditional schools do not offer a spiritually nourishing environment for their children, and an increasing number are choosing to homeschool. This guide will help these parents instill in their children strong Krishna-conscious values while giving them a solid academic education.

The Dalai Lama received the 2012 Templeton Prize for his work linking science and wider questions of faith and religion. The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader was awarded the prize, which comes with $1.7 million, Monday at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London.

The Vaishnava Institute for Higher Education (VIHE) is inviting all the serious students to a transformational Bhakti-sastri course taking place from July 19 to November 2012, in Vrindavan, India.

ISKCON`s Congregational Development Ministry will hold its first Bhakti Vriksa Convention for Leaders on August 18th and 19th, 2012 in Sri Dham Mayapur.

Good filmmaking is about making people stop and look deeply into their own hearts -- to turn each of them into a better person.

Around forty ISKCON leaders and communications staff attended the 2012 ISKCON Communications Europe Seminar at the Community Hall in Radhadesh, Belgium this April 22nd to 25th.