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It took more than a month for Mukunda Raj Aryal, 72, to return to Kathmandu's Durbar Square last year after a magnitude-7.8 earthquake hit Nepal on April 25.
KATHMANDU, Nepal (RNS) — The Pashupatinath Temple complex in Nepal is one of the world’s most important sites dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva, comprising more than 500 temples, shrines ...
KATHMANDU, Nepal (RNS) A 7.8-magnitude earthquake shattered many of Nepal's most famous religious sites but doesn't seem to have shaken the faith of its people.
Thousands of Hindu devotees gathered at the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu to mark "Shravan Sakranti," the beginning of ...
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of devotees crowded a revered Hindu temple in Nepal’s capital for a festival on Tuesday as coronavirus cases decline and life returns to normal ...
KATHMANDU, Nepal—Bhesh Dahal, ... "On the temple side [of the square] people keep small statues for themselves," says volunteer Rakesh Bajracharya, ...
KATHMANDU, Nepal — The revered living goddess is not leaving her temple this year. The old palace courtyard packed with hundreds of thousands of people each year during the Indrajatra festival ...
KATHMANDU, Nepal – Thousands of people dressed in white offered prayers, flowers and lit incense at home and in temples Thursday as part of a Hindu ritual marking the end of a 13-day mourning ...
KATHMANDU, Nepal – In the rubble of Nepal's 2015 earthquake, a team of dedicated woodworkers is finding inspiration to recreate what was lost. Centuries-old Char Narayan and Hari Shankara ...