NEW DELHI, INDIA — Perhaps the most striking first impression for any visit to India, the world’s most populous nation and most complicated democracy, is the traffic. Even in the nation’s capital the ...

(RNS) — At the Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago last week with the theme of defending human rights, several Hindu groups complained that, at an event that celebrates common ground among ...

Partab Shivani, a Hindu in Muslim-majority Pakistan, has fasted on and off during Ramadan for years, but this time is ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a conference in Russia. Reuters There are more than 50,000 Indian Americans in San Diego, and our community is always growing. Like any other group, we have our ...

The University of Houston has reaffirmed its commitment to academic freedom following a student's complaint about a course titled 'Lived Hindu Religion', which he alleged of being "Hinduphobic" and ...

A clear no-expansion principle is recommended — there should be no new constructions or enlargement of existing structures within core forest areas ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women have gathered in India's northern city of Prayagraj for the Maha Kumbh festival, the world's largest religious gathering. The ...

This story is part of a series by The Associated Press, Religion News Service and The Conversation on women’s roles in male-led religions. (AP) — When Sushma Dwivedi started seriously thinking about ...

Some of the world’s ancient faiths are having a rebirth—often to the discomfiture of an expanding Christianity. Perhaps the most spectacular renaissance is under way in Hinduism. Older than recorded ...

Artists create Hindu ritual artwork depicting India as a mother goddess holding the national flag and a symbol of the COVID-19 pandemic on the country’s Independence Day on the outskirts of Ahmedabad ...