Bangalore, India - Monday, December 26th 2011 – Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam
and devotees of Paramahamsa Nithyananda today staged a worldwide silent
protest against the ongoing trial of the sacred Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita in
Russia on the charges of religious extremism. The trial was reportedly instigated
by a local branch of the Russian Orthodox Church, and initiated by the State
Prosecutor’s office in Tomsk, Russia, as an initiative to restrict the activity of the
ISKCON movement in Russia. In addition to the scores of devotees, many of
them from other countries, who gathered together in the now famous Freedom
Park in Bangalore, the high tech protest was conducted simultaneously in 27
countries and 219 cities across the world with all of them interacting together via
two-way video conferencing and one-way web video casting.
Tags: