Indian media have reported deadly bus crashes involving Kumbh Mela pilgrims, but footage shared on social media of an ...

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

Thousands of devotees jostle behind bamboo fences to get a glimpse of the grand procession of the naked, ash-smeared and ...

The fall of autocrat Sheikh Hasina triggered a wave of violence against Hindus in Bangladesh. However, many of them deny that ...

The unfathomable scale of the world's largest religious festival in India overshadows many nations in size -- and for the ...

The largest religious gathering in the world is taking place in India from Jan. 13 to Feb. 26. It is a significant test for ...

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 ...

Religion, politics and the economy are deeply intertwined in India -- and the six-week-long Hindu festival of the Kumbh Mela gives one of the clearest examples. The Hindu nationalist government of ...

Hindu ascetics, head into the holy rivers at dawn. Ava Poonawala, a resident of Mumbai, India, made the journey not as a pilgrim, but to "witness the world’s largest religious event in our ...