On December 17, 2009, about 120 guests attended the formal inauguration of the Belgian Council of Religious Leaders (BCRL) at the Belgian Parliament in Brussels.

There is a BG-based review of the newly released Avatar movie printed in Hindustan Times of December 27, 2009

This article is a response to a debate inaugurated by readers of a recent article on Dandavats.com.

We are pleased to introduce you to fourteen devotees receiving the first ISKCON Europe Excellence Awards (IEEA). To encourage exemplary devotees, IEEA will be announced annually.

"I wanted everyone to be immersed in this inundation of love of Godhead, but some of them have escaped. Therefore I shall devise a trick to drown them also." Thus the Lord accepted the sannyäsa order of life after full consideration

"I am not a brahmacari. I am not a grhasta. I am not a vanaprastha. I am not a sannyasi." All right, you are not so many things, but then what are you?

Surely is it blisssful to see the massive crowds at the KRSNA BALARAMA mandira, with thousands focused on offering their lamp to Lord Damodara. Although the crowds are too much for me, I know the Srila Prabhupada is happy to see it.

From the 7th to 18th December the eyes of the world were set on Copenhagen for the COP15 Climate meetings. The following is a report on ISKCON devotees’ part in the events of those days

The Samprajña Institute has published the first part of a four-part series that investigates the future of Christian and Hindu conflict. Much of the conflict between Christians and Hindus centers on conversion and proselytizing from Christian missionaries within predominantly Hindu geographical areas

The year was 1933. In Orissa, Professor N.K. Sannyal had just published the first volume of his milestone work on the life of Shri Mahaprabhu under the divine order of his spiritual master, Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati.

Thursday 17 dec was the formal inauguration of the Belgian Council of Religious Leaders in the Parliament of Brussels. Hrdaya Caitanya prabhu, temple president of Radhadesh, was elected to represent in the council the Hindus of Belgium.

Nowadays the great innovations of medical and scientific science can maintain patients alive, even those that in the past were given no hope to survive.

Earlier I had written an article titled ‘Navadwip Notes’ in which I discussed the geographical reconstruction of Sridham Navadwip. I now have additional information on the subject and wish to present it here along with the material I had presented earlier

I first want to express my deep gratitude for the outpouring of love and support through calls, emails, gifts and cards that I have received from so many of you around the planet

His Grace Srivatsa Das, President of ISKCON New Naimisharanya Farm, Dabilpur Medchal, Hyderabad was called upon the stage and was honored in the august presence of elite citizens of Hyderabad.

As a young man, Jayo Prabhu was a dedicated Sankirtan devotee, full of life and extraordinary amounts of enthusiastic energy for serving Srila Prabhupada's mission.

The primary role of the successful applicant will be to provide spiritual leadership, ensure that the temple is spiritually vibrant and that the residents and other leaders are enthusiastic in their practices of Krishna Consciousness

Our leaders were told that good planets are hard to find, dont blow it, but they did it anyways and now they want to fix up the Earth in big big summits, just like the proverbial village fella who fixed the moon up long ago.

This is to update on the services that you could offer to Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu and His devotees at the holy dham Sri Mayapur for this year Gaura Purnima festival 2010.