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Millions gather in northern India for massive 6-week Hindu festival
Maha Kumbh Mela, or Great Pitcher Festival, is held every 12 years in the northern city of Prayagraj, as Hindus believe bathing in sacred rivers brings salvation from the cycle of birth and death, and the absolution of sins.
What to Know About the Hindu Festival Billed as the World’s Largest Religious Gathering
Millions of Hindu devotees, mystics and holy men and women from all across India flocked to the northern city of Prayagraj on Monday to kickstart what is being touted as the world’s largest religious gathering.
Holy dips at India's giant Hindu festival come with challenge
For pilgrims at the largest gathering of humanity, ritual bathing in India's holy rivers includes a key challenge -- finding your family and clothes after the chilly dip.
India opens giant Hindu festival for 400 million pilgrims
Vast crowds of Hindu pilgrims in India bathed in sacred waters as the Kumbh Mela festival opened on Monday, with organisers expecting 400 million people -- the world's largest gathering
India's Hindu pilgrims: a sea of humanity at Kumbh Mela
Millions of Hindu pilgrims are gathering in India to bathe in sacred waters for the six-week-long Kumbh Mela festival -- from the very old to babies, cave-dwelling monks to science
India's Kumbh Mela Hindu Festival Sees World's Largest Gathering Of Humanity
Hindu holy men and devotees gather on the second day of India's giant and millenia-old Kumbh Mela festival. Organisers expect 400 million people to attend the event, which began on January 13 and will run until February 26.
Tens of millions of Hindu devotees make do with little at Maha Kumbh festival
It’s late evening in the city of Prayagraj and the roadside vendors selling snacks are packing up their wares to shut for the ...
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Hindu pilgrims return to India after Shadani Darbar
LAHORE: A group of 84 Hindu pilgrims, who visited Pakistan for the annual pilgrimage to the historic Shadani Darbar in Hayat ...
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Indian diocese welcomes Hindus for millennia-old Hindu festival
Catholic educational institutions close to bathing spots are thrown open for the convenience of pilgrims at Kumbla Mela ...
Millions of pilgrims and naked, ash-smeared ascetics take holy dips in India's mega Hindu festival
Naked Hindu ascetics and pilgrims took dips in the freezing waters at the confluence of sacred rivers in northern India on ...
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Catholic community has small role in largest Hindu festival in India
As India begins the largest religious gathering in the world, the local bishop says the Church’s educational and religious ...
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Naked, ash-smeared Hindu ascetics take holy dips at India’s Maha Kumbh festival
Tens of thousands of naked Hindu ascetics and millions of pilgrims took dips in freezing water at the confluence of sacred ...