Asian communities around the world are ringing in the Lunar New Year and the beginning of the Year of the Snake. During the ...

A senior police officer said at least 30 people died as a crowd panicked at the Hindu Kumbh Mela mega-festival in the ...

A stampede at a festival in India early this morning has left at least 15 feared dead and many more injured. Tens of millions ...

A pre-dawn stampede at the world's largest religious gathering killed at least 30 people in India, with many more injured ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Tens of thousands of people at a massive religious gathering in India rushed to take a holy bath in the ...

In this area’s matrilineal culture, women have taken on new responsibilities in Catholic churches in the region, acting as ...

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath.(PTI) "Sanatan Dharma is the national religion of India. It is the religion of humanity. The process of worship can be different. But religion is one ...

Throngs of devotees at the world's biggest religious gathering bathed in Indian rivers on Thursday, undeterred by a stampede ...

Thomas was later killed (one legend says he was pierced by spears), the religion founded by him or later missionaries took firm hold. By the sixth century there were Indian churches in contact ...

The Uttar Pradesh government has ordered a judicial probe into the deaths of at least 30 people in stampedes at India ’s Kumbh Mela festival, where millions of Hindu devotees gathered for a ritual ...

A court in the Indian capital, Delhi, has ordered the seizure of two "offensive" paintings by MF Husain, one of India's most ...

On an index measuring religion-related hostilities for 2022, India scored the highest among 198 nations, according to a report recently published by the Pew Research Center. A higher score on the ...