They march like a sea of people, walking toward the spot where they take holy baths, drawn by the hope that the bathing would ...

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

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-- ...

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 ...

As many as 68 Hindu devotees from Pakistan's Sindh province arrived in Prayagraj for the Maha Kumbh, taking a holy dip at the ...

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

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 ...

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

This sacred stroke, called tilak, is ubiquitous to the millions of Hindu pilgrims attending the Maha Kumbh festival in India's northern Prayagraj city, where faithful gather at the spot where the ...

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 ...