WHEELING, W.Va. — A former Hare Krishna devotee has admitted sexually abusing two girls and a woman at the New Vrindaban Hare Krishna community in the late 1980s. James A. Prins, 50, of Moundsville, ...

VRINDAVAN, India (RNS) — When the protests against a state government plan to redevelop a world-renowned Hindu temple began in May, Varsha Otwani, a 64-year-old homemaker, joined the women’s chorus, ...

MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. -- The Hare Krishnas have shifted their religion from communes to cubicles, from the hills of West Virginia to mainstream America. In the 1970s, the form of Hinduism thrived. Men in ...

Bhawani KC, 84, fastens a peacock feather in her hair, ties a green scarf around her neck and dons a green tika. She then pulls a green ribbon tied to a tiny swing on which sit silver idols of Krishna ...

Hare Krishna devotees remove their shoes as they step into the meditation room each morning. Outside, birds chirp and a waterfall cascades into a koi pond. It is quiet — for now. The compound is like ...