PRAYAGRAJ, India – At the world's largest pilgrimage in Prayagraj in northern India, tens of millions of Hindu faithful travel to the sacred sangam — the confluence of three holy rivers — to take a ...

Some 400 million devotees will attend this year’s Kumbh Mela festival. Pilgrims and politicians explain why it’s bigger than ever They sat quietly together on the banks of the Ganges river, heads ...

Sadhus began a fast unto death in Tirupati on Wednesday (February 12), demanding that the government protect the sanctity of Tirupati, the abode of Lord Venkateswara. The protest, taken up in front of ...

Photographer Kieron Nelson who documents the lives of vanishing tribes and cultures worldwide give is a glimpse in the world of Sadhus in Nepal. This caste has renounced all material and sexual ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this Jan. 27, 2019, photo, Hindu holy men of monastic order Juna Akhara participate in a ritual before becoming Naga Sadhus or ...