The Hindu event is the world’ s largest religious festival.Over 420 million people have taken a ritual bath so far at India's ongoing Maha Kumbh Mela-- the largest human gathering in the world-- ...

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The man appears in a silhouette after rising from the river. His dreadlocked hair is flicked backwards, sending a stream of ...

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

A massive fire broke out Friday at India's ongoing mega Hindu festival Maha Kumbh Mela in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh ...

A senior police officer said at least 30 people died as a crowd panicked at the Hindu Kumbh Mela mega-festival in the ...

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

Witnesses described a mass of people rushing to take a pre-dawn dip at the confluence of the three sacred rivers.

People were trampled as pilgrims at the Maha Kumbh Mela, one of the world’s biggest gatherings, gathered where the Ganges and ...

A vermilion dot on the forehead is one of India’s most widely accepted Hindu cultural insignias PRAYAGRAJ, India -- The pilgrims come and go as strangers. They march like a sea of people ...

The world's largest religious gathering, the Maha Kumbh Mela in northern India, turned deadly Wednesday, with officials ...