 This pilgrimage tours the sacred land of Jagannath Puri, Orissa (also known as Sri Ksetra), where the famous Jagannath Temple is located, and where Gaudiya Vaishnavism founder Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu lived and performed many of his pastimes.  Films on Bhakti filling up cinemas? Yes it is happening. In the Tweed Valley, Australia local devotees have just celebrated the second annual Bhakti Short Film Fest. The event has been held in the local Murwillumbah "Regent" Cinema.  Between October 11th and 14th, ISKCON temple and project leaders from across Canada met in British Columbia at a beautiful mountain conference centre for their annual Canadian Leaders Retreat.  The Bhaktivedanta Swami Gurukula School in New Gorvardhana Australia is currently seeking to employ Secondary School teachers of multiply subjects for the 2014 academic year.  After over three excruciating years of taking multiple drugs for his condition and seeing no improvements, a man decides to take matters into his own hands.  Turmeric has an extensive fan base among those who enjoy traditional Indian food, but also a growing number among cancer patients.  Hindu Environment Week, a new global initiative to encourage Hindus to celebrate and care for the environment, was launched on Tuesday in Varanasi, India.  A group of young Vaishnava celibates celebrate Jagannath Ratha Yatra in the rural Lithuania.  For years, the Moscow Society for Krishna Consciousness has endured broken promises by the Moscow City government, which has repeatedly given them land and buildings, only to evict them later. Today, with most of their center demolished, an already passed deadline from the courts to leave the premises, and no replacement temple ready, the future of ISKCON Moscow is uncertain.  Kitchen Religion Books announces the publication of the forthcoming publication of a new cookbook series, The Kitchen Religion Series, Quantity Cooking for the Krishna Kitchen, a set of four volumes of quantity cooking cookbooks.  Radhanath Swami and Francis Clooney, two individuals whose deep journeys into their own Hindu and Christian faiths have not only lead them to encounter God but the tradition of the other.  In 2013, a new Sacred Art Museum opened in Villa Vrindavana, Tuscany, Italy.  People are often inhibited from revealing their hearts, and instead lock up things within, causing destructive emotions to brew up and eventually surface in unhealthy ways.  Palaeontologists believe finds could re-write early history of human evolution.  It’s been a rejuvenating new start for ISKCON devotees in Bolivia in the past year. On December 18th 2012, after decades of being downtrodden and harassed during the country’s military regime changes and political upheaval, ISKCON was finally given legal recognition by the Bolivian government.  A young boy supposedly has memories of a past life in which he was his own grandfather. |