Balaji, a Hindu priest, stood before the reclining god and offered a plate of coconut and bananas. His chest bare and his face adorned with red and yellow sacred paste, he set the food at the foot of ...

Kali Puja is celebrated on the new moon night of Amavasya of the month of Kartik. People celebrate this festival by lighting diyas, candles.

Diwali is one of the most celebrated holidays in India and has become increasingly significant in the Indian-American ...

Hindu extremists in central India on June 8 ransacked a church’s worship building, burned Bibles and assaulted every member, causing one to lose consciousness, sources said. In Chhattisgarh state’s ...

The Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi city is at the centre of a dispute in court India's top court is hearing a number of petitions challenging a decades-old law that preserves the character and identity ...

Our journey through India begins with a six-hour train ride from New Delhi, then a four-hour car ride through the foothills of the Himalayas. We arrive in a small town called Dwarahat, where 1,000 ...

We sat on the cool mosaic tile, leaned against the shaded wall and surveyed a parade of women in silk tunics flowing past in shimmering hues of pink and orange, each more brilliant than the next.

VARANASI, India (RNS) — The Bharat Mata mandir in India’s holiest city has come to represent an ideology that many in Narendra Modi’s constituency hold — a distinctly religious allegiance to the ...

President Trump’s popularity in India is being celebrated with songs, prayers and statues ahead of his first visit to the south Asian nation – which has quickly constructed its own wall along a slum ...