The Sacred Thread ceremony is a ceremony for boys in some Hindu communities to confirm they are of an age to take on religious responsibility. Girls are sometimes honoured in the same way ...

Pilgrims come from across India and around the world to bathe in the water where the two sacred rivers meet ... the giver of life, in a Hindu ceremony that takes place every night in Varanasi ...

The Maha Kumbh Mela, or “great festival of the sacred pitcher,” is the world’s largest religious ceremony. Based on a Hindu legend in which demons and gods fight over a pitcher carrying the ...

A look at three important ceremonies that take place in the early years of a Hindu’s life ... the head-shaving ceremony and the sacred thread ceremony that takes place around the age of eight ...

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 ...

The South African Hindu Maha Sabha reportedly has called for action after a teacher allegedly cut off a sacred thread from the wrist of a Hindu student. A teacher in South Africa allegedly cut off ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — The pilgrims come and go as strangers. They march like a sea of people, walking toward the spot where they take holy baths, drawn by the hope that the bathing would bring ...

The South African Hindu Maha Sabha (SAHMS) has called for action by education authorities after the teacher allegedly cut off the sacred thread from the wrist of the Hindu student, claiming that ...

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