DELHI, India (RNS) — Kumbh Mela, a festival that every 12 years draws hundreds of thousands of devotees to the city of Prayagraj, in northern India, has become the latest battleground for ...

Hindu devotees take a holy dip by the banks of the Sangam, the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna and the mythical Saraswati rivers, on “Mauni Amavasya,” or new moon day, on Wednesday during the ...

The dominant political ideology in India today is Hindu nationalism, a spectrum of thought that represents a “New India.” In ...

Hindus are the fourth-largest religious category, after Christians, Muslims and religiously unaffiliated people. The Asia-Pacific region is home to 99% of the global Hindu population, with around 95% ...

Explaining the key concepts of Hinduism, whose followers have grown in number in Canada since 1903, and in Cornwall in recent ...

(RNS) — Some see the escalation of anti-Hindu violence in Bangladesh as a chance to unite the global Hindu diaspora. (RNS) — At a webinar on Sunday (Aug. 11), Suhag Shukla, executive director for the ...

She is wrapped in a traditional sari as she speaks, a kindly twinkle in her eye even as she seems to chide in an Instagram video posted in March. “Kids often tell me they have no time for puja,” The ...

Central President of Assam-based Hindu body Kutumba Suraksha Samiti, Satya Ranjan Borah, in a strongly worded statement, expressed deep concerns over the rising influence of Christian missionaries in ...

The mutilated body of a Hindu woman was found in a field Thursday in southeastern Pakistan, police said, as they investigate her alleged murder in the latest suspected attack against minorities in the ...

As we continue to work through the 12 main world religions, our latest faith feature is on Hinduism. With just over one billion followers globally, Hinduism is the third largest of world religions, ...

As the Hindu population in the West grows rapidly, Christian leaders rethink how to engage with them. A software engineer in Seattle. A cardiologist in London. A professor in Toronto. As Hindu ...

Days before the release of Dhurandhar, Ranveer Singh has found himself in legal trouble after his mimicry of Daiva from ...