(RNS) — This year’s India Day Parade in New York City on Sunday (Aug. 18), traditionally a celebration of India’s vibrant democracy and cultural diversity, will be marred with a float of a model Ram ...

Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge, wisdom, and music, is worshipped across India, especially by students and scholars. If ...

(RNS) — Behind the inauguration festivities for a temple in India lurks a Hindu nationalist desire to eradicate Muslims. (RNS) — On Jan. 22, hundreds of thousands of Hindus in India will consecrate ...

AYODHYA, India — About 80 chartered flights have landed at the new international airport in India’s holy city of Ayodhya for Monday’s partial opening of a controversial temple dedicated to one of ...

People buy flags of Hindu Lord Ram from a local shop in Mumbai, India, Jan. 16, 2024, ahead of the opening of the grand temple for the Lord Ram, one of Hinduism’s most revered deities, in Ayodhya on ...

AYODHYA, India — More than 30 years ago, rioters destroyed a historic mosque in this holy Hindu city — a seismic event that critics say continues to help transform India from a secular democracy into ...

If stones could talk, sing and tell stories, Yogi Trivedi believes the marble and limestone that adorn the spires, pillars and archways of the stunning Hindu temple in central New Jersey would compose ...

New Delhi — At least 35 people died Thursday when the floor of a Hindu temple in central India collapsed under the weight of faithful who had flocked to the site to mark a holy day. Dozens of people ...

The Robbinsville temple is one of many built by the Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha or BAPS, a worldwide religious and civic organization. Monks in saffron robes walk in ...