Source: Le Mauricien
PORT LOUIS, MAURITIUS, May 27, 2002: Nine days of Ram Katha, sacred songs and discourses on the life of Lord Rama, by the famous Pujya Sant Morari Bapu was concluded on May 27 at the Hindu House in Port Louis. Veerendra Ramdhun, president of Hindu House, reported that an average of 3,000 devotees attended each of the four-hour musical presentations of the life and teachings of Lord Rama. At the Saturday morning Ram Katha session the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Paul Berenger, welcomed Morari Bapu to Mauritius saying that the country has been eagerly awaiting his coming for the past twenty years and that Bapu’s messages of peace and love are sorely needed at this time when there’s so much tension and terror in the world. During his stay in Mauritius, in addition to the installation of the first stone of Radha Krishna Mandir to Montagne-Ory, Bapu visited the temple of the Hindu Maha Sabha at Grand-Basin, the Venkateshwara Temple of La-Laura, the temple of Gujratis in Le Hochet and the Human Service Trust of Swami Krishnanand in Calebasses. He was accompanied in his visit to Mauritius by 300 devotees from India.