World Focus

Sunday, October 3, is the anniversary of the day in 1990 on which Hladini devi dasi was brutally gunned down by an extra-judicial firing squad in war-torn Liberia in western Africa. The death squad arrived at the Hare Krishna temple in the capital city of Monrovia in the early morning hours, and ordered the devotees [...]

A Roman Catholic priest is collecting and saving hundreds of traditional pre-Christian religious artefacts in southeast Nigeria that new converts to Christianity had planned to burn. The collection includes carvings of pagan deities and masks, some of them more than a century old and considered central to the pre-Christian religion of the Igbo people, who traditionally [...]

While the world observes 'World Children’s Day', an 11-year-old Hindu boy was sexually assaulted and brutally murdered in Sindh. His body was found on Saturday in Babarloi town in Khairpur Mir's. According to family members, the boy, Kaana Sachdev, went missing on Friday evening and his body was later found in an abandoned house within the [...]

Former screen idol turned animal rights activist Brigitte Bardot was fined 20,000 euros by a court on France’s Indian Ocean island of La Reunion over a 2019 diatribe where she described its inhabitants as “savages”. “The natives have kept their savage genes,” the animal rights campaigner wrote in an open letter attacking the islanders for [...]

Candice Reed a math teacher was caught in a video wearing a fake Native American headdress while trampling around the classroom has been doing the same weird trigonometry lessons for almost a decade. Based at John W. North High School in California, the Riverside Unified School District said in a statement that he was on [...]

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US Universities and Saudi/Arab/Islamic Funding:  Relevant Facts from the book The Arab Lobby by Mitchell Bard (PhD, UCLA).    “Starting as early as 1976, Arab governments and individuals began to make large gifts to universities to create chairs and centers in Arab, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies. More than 90 universities sought assistance from the [...]

Seven-year old Sulekha Das does not smile anymore. All she does is stare unfocused at the clumsily painted hospital walls, as callous government officials troop in inspecting her as if she were an artefact. Sulekha and her eight-year-old sister (who died later) were raped in Bhola, in Barisal district, Bangladesh on October 24, 2001. [...]

According to the report, the local police station chief said that the attackers on Friday stabbed an executive member of the temple committee to death. Two Hindu men were killed in Bangladesh amid ongoing violent attacks against the religious minority community in the neighbouring country. The latest spate of violence occurred in the southern town [...]

Attacks on 150 families in Shilpara, Cox’s Bazar, widespread vandalism, looting, vandalism of Hatiya in Noakhali, vandalism of dieties in municipal Kalimandir, attack Vandalism, molestation of women, 2 people have been found dead in Chandpur.     ISKCON temple & devotees were violently attacked today by a mob in Noakhali, Bangladesh. Temple suffered significant damage [...]