TAIPEI, Taiwan – A man leaped into a lion’s den at the Taipei Zoo on Wednesday to try to convert the king of beasts to Christianity, but was bitten in the leg for his efforts. An image taken from television shows a man being attacked by a lion after he crossed a barbed wire fence…

MONTGOMERY – Ron Henning recalls the day he first “put a man down” in the center aisle just before the pastor gave the altar call. “I thought he was reaching for a weapon in his pocket,” Henning says. He rushed over, zapped the man with a church-issued stun gun and sent him to the floor…

from Candrasekhar acarya das: Last month, while doing door to door in a University dormitory in Montpellier, France, I knocked at one door, and a young lady opened. When I showed her the books, she said, “Oh, my boyfriend is really into Krishna.” Sometimes, we hear things like “Oh, my friend is really into India,”…

SUNSHINE Coast Great-grandmother Terry Horder got the fright of her life when she accidentally stuck her eyes shut with super-strength glue. The 78-year-old Wurtulla resident was defrosting the fridge when her eyes started watering and she reached for a bottle of allergy eye drops. But instead of grabbing the medicated drops she got Loctite 401…

Classroom cultures that favor female students and an increase in learning disabilities may explain the academic gap. By Margarita Bauza / The Detroit News PLYMOUTH — The nation’s boys are slipping and researchers say it’s time to worry. According to the U.S. Department of Education, boys have fallen behind girls in academic achievement. Fewer boys…

From Vijaya das, I was distributing in the airport and it was becoming very frustrating, no one would take a book. Then I started to chant a verse that usually comes to mind during these times: tat te ‘nukampAM susamIkSamANo bhunjAna evAtma-kRtaM vipAkam hRd-vAg-vapurbhir vidadhan namas te jIveta yo mukti-pade sa dAya-bhAk Prabhupada’s explanation found…

Accra, Jan. 9, GNA – The Hare Krishna Movement in Ghana on Saturday reached out to the ordinary people in society, when they feted and entertained about 5,000 people as part of their religious and social responsibility. Currently, with a national population of about 5,000, since its introduction into the country in 1981, the movement…