The festival has its roots in a Hindu tradition that says the god Vishnu wrested a golden pitcher containing the nectar of ...

Millions of missionaries work in schools, hospitals and other institutions. Their success is deepening divisions.

Thane: The Nizampura police booked a man for allegedly making a derogatory remark about the Kumbh bath. The accused has been ...

A vermilion dot on the forehead is one of India’s most widely accepted Hindu cultural insignias. But at the festival, where ...

This doesn’t imply, however, that a religious search should begin at random. Rather, you should start the way you would in ...

Tucked away on a residential street in Southwest Broward County lies a holy structure of architectural grandeur that looks as if it were uprooted straight from India and transplanted to South ...

The largest Hindu temple in the Southern Hemisphere was inaugurated in Johannesburg, South Africa. It serves not only as a ...

Religious tensions have soared in Bangladesh since a student-led revolution toppled autocratic leader Sheikh Hasina in August ...

At the Jaipur Literature Festival, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor reignited a thought-provoking debate about the true essence ...

Smaller majorities of Buddhists in South Korea and Japan say the same. Hindus in Bangladesh are more likely to say religion helps society (95%) and doesn’t encourage superstitious thinking (70%) than ...

To what extent might it be helpful for Hindus to believe that they can pray to God in the form of Ganesh, the Remover of Obstacles?