Millions Bathe in Holy Rivers as India Hosts the World’s Largest Religious Festival
PRAYAGRAJ, India — Tens of thousands of naked Hindu ascetics and millions of pilgrims took dips in freezing water at the ...
The World’s Largest Human Gathering Begins in India
About 400 million Hindu pilgrims from around the globe are expected to bathe in and around the Ganges in the religion’s ...
India kicks off a massive Hindu festival touted as the world’s largest religious gathering
Over about the next six weeks, Hindu pilgrims will gather at the confluence of three sacred rivers where they will take part ...
One of the world’s greatest religious spectacles is underway and the numbers are staggering
Millions of Hindu devotees are bathing in sacred waters as the world’s biggest religious gathering begins in India’s northern ...
India's Maha Kumbh festival sees 15 million people take holy dip on first day
Nearly 15 million Hindus, six times the number expected, took a dip in freezing waters seeking absolution of their sins on ...
Dreadlocked Indian ascetics take holy dip in Hindu Kumbh festival
Scores of naked Hindu ascetics smeared in holy ash charged into the water of holy rivers in northern India on Tuesday, ...
World's Largest Religious Gathering Begins
Millions of Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women have flocked to the northern Indian city of Prayagraj on Monday to kickstart the world's largest religious gathering. The Maha Kumbh festival ...
India set for Maha Kumbh Mela, the world's largest gathering of humanity
Maha Kumbh Mela or Great Pitcher Festival begins in India on Monday, a Hindu sacred event that will be the world's largest ...