More than 500 million people have taken a "holy dip" in sacred river waters in north India over the last four weeks as part ...

Thousands of devotees spilt from trains as they flocked to a river for a mass bathing festival in India. Footage shows crowds disembarking at Prayagraj Railway Station to join others already there on2 ...

Called the world’s largest religious gathering, the event has already drawn 148 million people. Attendance is expected to exceed 400 million by the time it ends on Feb. 26, and surging crowds have ...

What if I told you of a river—mighty and sacred—that once carved its way across ancient India, nurturing civilizations and ...

In a powerful demonstration of cultural and spiritual unity, His Majesty Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, the King of Bhutan, participated in the Maha Kumbh Mela at Prayagraj’s Triveni Sangam on ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — Channi Anand is based in Jammu, a strategic location not far from the India-Pakistan border that ...

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

A Hindu pilgrim stood anxiously next to a bus stand in Mustang, Nepal. “I’m going to burn my passport,” he told me. “I’m going to destroy all my documents and cross the border. I came ...

As the rickety bus barely rounded another corner, an audible gasp went through the passengers. A recent blizzard had taken out the road between the high Himalayan villages of Ranipauwa and ...

For millions of Hindu pilgrims at India's millennia-old vast Kumbh Mela festival, the culmination of their journey is ritual ...

A Catholic-run hospital and a college in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have offered free meals to Hindu devotees ...