Millions of Hindus are gathering in a northern Indian city for the Maha Kumbh festival, the world's largest religious ...

The festival — site of a stampede on Wednesday — is held every 12 years at the confluence of the Ganges, the Yamuna ... in ...

Witnesses described a mass of people rushing to take a pre-dawn dip at the confluence of the three sacred rivers.

Vast crowds of Hindu pilgrims in India began bathing in ... who take part in the annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Indian police said they were "conducting relentless day-and ...

A stampede during the massive Hindu pilgrimage of the Kumbh Mela left at least 15 people dead and many others injured in ...

That is around 200 times the 2 million pilgrims who were in Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj pilgrimage last year. The festival started on Jan. 13 with tens of thousands of naked Hindu ascetics ...

PRAYAGRAJ, India (AP) — Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men ... arrived in the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj pilgrimage last year.

For many Hindu pilgrims, bathing at the festival where three holy rivers meet is the spiritual journey of a lifetime. But as ...